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Eugene Levy gets out of his comfort zone in 'The Reluctant Traveler'

1:56pm March 13, 2024

by Dave Davies

The Schitt's Creek star visits distant lands and tastes exotic foods as the host of the Apple TV+ series. Levy describes it as a show about "a guy traveling who doesn't love to travel."

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'Manhunt' dramatizes Lincoln's assassination, and the 12-day search for his killer

1:56pm March 13, 2024

by David Bianculli

A new, seven-part series on Apple TV+ unfolds like a period-piece Columbo. First John Wilkes Booth plans and commits the murder, then the lead investigator deciphers clues to catch the elusive killer.

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Big-box store workers find themselves shut out of the American Dream in 'Help Wanted'

1:56pm March 13, 2024

by Maureen Corrigan

Adelle Waldman's novel is a workplace ensemble set in a Costco-like store. But, because Help Wanted is a group portrait, it tends to visit, rather than settle in with, its working class characters.

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Blue body silhouette in a jumping pose created in a 3D papercut style illustration. Flowers burst forth from the silhouette, illustrating the concept of spring, new life, energy, whimsy and joy.

9 energizing ideas that can put a spring in your step

12:03pm March 13, 2024

by Life Kit

Boost confidence, joy and add movement to your life with these creative and science-backed actions.

Author Charlie Lovett at his typewriter.

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Charlie Lovett's play adaptation of his novel 'Escaping Dreamland' premieres in Winston-Salem

11:11am March 13, 2024

by Neal Charnoff

Charlie Lovett's play adaption of "Escaping Dreamland" is being produced by the Little Theatre of Winston-Salem, and will have its world premiere this Friday through Sunday at the Hanesbrands Theatre in Winston-Salem.

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Eric Carmen was the frontman for the Raspberries. The singer wrote music that helped set the mood for several popular movies throughout his career, including Dirty Dancing.

Eric Carmen, singer-songwriter of 'All By Myself' and 'Hungry Eyes,' dies at 74

4:55pm March 12, 2024

by Neda Ulaby

The pop crooner was behind some of the biggest power ballads of the 1970s and '80s. His wife said he died in his sleep.

Students walk by the statue of Hecuba, the legendary Queen of Troy, with a quote by William Shakespeare — spelled "Shakespear" — on the campus of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles in 2017.

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A new Kobe Bryant statue has multiple errors. It's not the first memorial with typos

4:34pm March 12, 2024

by Diba Mohtasham

Officials say they will correct the misspellings on a recent 19-foot bronze statue of the late Kobe Bryant at Crypto.com Arena. Several other prominent monuments have had similar issues.

Jenny Slate's latest stand-up special is Seasoned Professional.

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As a 'Seasoned Professional,' Jenny Slate now finds strength in her sensitivity

1:49pm March 12, 2024

by Terry Gross

The comic can pick up on the "micro bad mood" of whoever she's talking to. And when she wants her 3-year-old daughter to open up, she talks to her in the voice of Marcel the Shell with Shoes On.

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The Duchess of Cambridge walks around Ballymena, Northern Ireland on February 28, 2019. She has recently disappeared from the public eye after having abdominal surgery.

What the royal family doesn't understand about PR in 2024

1:42pm March 12, 2024

by Linda Holmes

The release of the Mother's Day photo was not meant as a proof of life. However, any clever communications person should have known it would be taken that way and closely scrutinized by the public.

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A new public art project in Los Angeles is creating a lot of controversy

5:14am March 12, 2024

NPR's A Martinez talks to University of Arizona Associate Professor Stefano Bloch about the graffiti that has transformed empty skyscrapers in Los Angeles into a symbolic battleground.