Arts

Oscars 2025: The complete list of winners

7:30pm March 02, 2025

Anora won five Academy Awards, including best picture. Zoe Saldaña and Kieran Culkin won best supporting actress and actor. Flow and No Other Land won best animated feature film and best documentary.

2025 Oscars: See the red carpet looks

6:18pm March 02, 2025

The 2025 Oscars start at 7 p.m. EST, 4 p.m. PST Sunday on ABC and Hulu. Conan O'Brien is hosting the show.

Sunday Puzzle: Consonant Countries

8:00am March 02, 2025

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with MPR listener John Barnicle of Eagan, Minn., and puzzlemaster Will Shortz.

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The Daily Front Row Celebrates The 10th Anniversary Of CBS Watch! Magazine - Inside

David Johansen, who fronted the New York Dolls, dies at 75

1:41pm March 01, 2025

Johansen, a pioneer in punk music who found solo success under the moniker Buster Poindexter, died on Friday. His family announced last month that he had been in treatment for advanced stage cancer.

'Wait Wait' for March 1, 2025: With Not My Job guest Roy Wood, Jr.

12:30pm March 01, 2025

This week, Wait Wait is live in Chicago with host Peter Sagal, special guest Roy Wood, Jr. and panelists Tom Bodett, Helen Hong, and Paula Poundstone

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A 'silent' protest? Haydn and a bunch of chorus girls got there first

8:42am March 01, 2025

by Chloe Veltman

A new album by artists including Kate Bush and Imogen Heap protesting proposed changes to AI copyright laws is the latest in a history of musicians using silence to protest unfair economic treatment.

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Conductor Marin Alsop on Trump, the Kennedy Center and why art is bipartisan

8:00am March 01, 2025

by Scott Simon

The celebrated conductor brought Her Story, a potent piece by Julia Wolfe, to Kennedy Center audiences recently.

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How to watch the Oscars on Sunday night

7:00am March 01, 2025

The 97th Academy Awards will air on ABC and stream on Hulu at 7 p.m. ET. Comedian and actor Conan O'Brien is hosting and Wicked stars Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo will perform.

Arts

It's the 5th anniversary of the COVID pandemic and we want to hear your experiences

8:00pm February 28, 2025

It's been 5 years since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. Ahead of this anniversary, NPR wants to hear from you.

Gene Hackman's pacemaker activity suggests he died several days before he was found

7:51pm February 28, 2025

Hackman's pacemaker was last active on Feb. 17, according to the Santa Fe County Sheriff Adan Mendoza. He said Friday it is "a very good assumption" that was his death date.