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How much money do you need to earn to buy a house these days? Find out in the quiz

9:30am April 05, 2024

by Holly J. Morris

This week, the April 8 total solar eclipse inspired Barbie-level coverage mania at NPR. But it turns out other things happened too! Were you paying attention?

Activists from Extinction Rebellion, left and center, protest during a performance of An Enemy of the People on Broadway, starring Jeremy Strong, right.

'We want to help': Why climate activists are trying something new

5:12am April 05, 2024

by Chloe Veltman

A recent disruption at An Enemy of the People on Broadway by Extinction Rebellion shows a new approach to climate change activism.

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Rudy Mancuso's 'Musica' brings viewers inside the sensation of rhythmic synesthesia

6:11pm April 04, 2024

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Rudy Mancuso about his new movie, Musica. It's his semi-autobiographical film about living with synesthesia and falling in love.

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Dancers perform as a solar total eclipse occurs in Matantimali, Central Sulawesi on March 9, 2016.

The perfect celestial soundtrack to the total solar eclipse

5:45pm April 04, 2024

There are the obvious options (Soundgarden, Bonnie Tyler and Pink Floyd,) plus some celestially coded jams that are unexpectedly fitting for your viewing adventures.

Director Steven Zaillian and cinematographer Robert Elswit make the most of the Ripley's black and white aesthetic, presenting stunning images of Italian landscape.

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Netflix's stylish 'Ripley' stretches the grift — and the tension — to the max

3:12pm April 04, 2024

by David Bianculli

Andrew Scott stars as a grifter who's always ready to swindle, seduce or murder in a new eight-part miniseries based on 1955 novel. Ripley combines a bold narrative with visual surprises throughout.

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Niels Schneider and Lou de Laâge star in Coup de Chance.

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'Coup de Chance' is a typical Woody Allen film — with one appalling final detail

3:12pm April 04, 2024

by Justin Chang

Set in France, Allen's latest film covers familiar territory, including an adulterous romance, a premeditated murder and a darkly cynical consideration of the role that luck plays in human affairs.

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Dead fish washed ashore in a red tide in 2018 in Sanibel, Fla.

A professor worried no one would read an algae study. So she had it put to music

12:25pm April 04, 2024

by Neda Ulaby

Professors and students at the University of South Florida mapped pitch, rhythm and duration to data about algae blooms and depletion of coral reefs to create an original composition.

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Participants at a Festival of Colors celebration.

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Hindu community celebrates Holi, the Festival of Colors

10:19am April 04, 2024

by Neal Charnoff

The India Association of the Triad is hosting a Holi Festival this Saturday in Gibsonville. Organizers say all are welcome to experience the day-long event featuring music, food, and dance.

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Tony Award-winning playwright Christopher Durang has died

5:47pm April 03, 2024

by Jeff Lunden

American playwright Christopher Durang has died at 75. He won a Tony Award for "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike" and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist with "Miss Witherspoon."

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After childhood trauma, sisters use art and science to explore how memory can morph

4:53pm April 03, 2024

by Gabriel Spitzer

Two sisters struggled to remember troubling childhood events until adulthood. A neuroscientist and author gave them the science and the language to turn their work into a dance performance and a book.

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