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What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing, listening and reading

5:00pm September 29, 2023

Each week, Pop Culture Happy Hour guests and hosts share what's bringing them joy. This week: the series Deadloch, a new John Grisham book, an album from Dessa, and a podcast about Vietnam in movies.

Rapper Tupac Shakur attends a voter registration event in South Central Los Angeles, Aug. 15, 1996. Las Vegas police said they have made an arrest, Friday, Sept. 29, 2023, for the first time in the 1996 killing of rapper Tupac Shakur.

Nevada grand jury indicts witness in killing of Tupac Shakur

4:08pm September 29, 2023

by The Associated Press

A Nevada grand jury indicted Duane "Keffe D" Davis, one of the last living witnesses to the fatal drive-by shooting of the rapper in Las Vegas, prosecutors announced in court Friday

'Sparks' author Ian Johnson on Chinese 'challenging the party's monopoly on history'

3:30pm September 29, 2023

by John Ruwitch

Xi Jinping and China's ruling Communist Party have displayed a dogged obsession with controlling the historical narrative. But there's a group of underground historians fighting back.

Ryan McKinny and Joyce DiDonato star in the Metropolitan Opera's new production of Dead Man Walking, which opened Tuesday at the Met in New York.

North Carolina radio station plans to reject broadcasts of 'inappropriate' Met operas

3:29pm September 29, 2023

by Anastasia Tsioulcas

WCPE says that six contemporary operas being presented this season by the Metropolitan Opera — including ones dealing with violence, race and LGBTQ issues — are "unsuitable" for broadcast.

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Remembering 'NCIS' actor David McCallum

1:47pm September 29, 2023

by Terry Gross

McCallum, who died Sept. 25, played an off-beat medical examiner on NCIS, but got his start nearly 60 years earlier, playing a Russian agent on the The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Originally broadcast in '92.

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Revisiting the 'Fresh Air' interview with poet Allen Ginsberg

1:47pm September 29, 2023

by Terry Gross

A new tribute album offers musical interpretations of Ginsberg's poems. The poet and countercultural activist spoke to Terry Gross in 1994 about his poem "Howl," which was inspired by his mother.

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Madeleine Yuna Voyles plays Alphie, a pensive young robot child in The Creator.

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Did AI write this film? 'The Creator' offers a muddled plea for human-robot harmony

1:47pm September 29, 2023

by Justin Chang

This sci-fi drama about an ex-special-forces operative who teams up with a humanoid robot excels at world-building — but ultimately fails to create characters that take on lives of their own.

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Podcast tile art for El Sonido, from KEXP; Alt.Latino, from NPR; Tacos of Texas, from KUT; A Music of Their Own, from CapRadio; Radio Ambulante, from NPR; Quien Are We, from Colorado Public Radio.

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Desde los taqueros veganos hasta un escándalo político, escucha estos podcasts

6:00am September 29, 2023

Las historias latinas importan. El equipo de NPR One tiene recomendaciones de podasts que son tan variadas e importantes como la comunidad de la que provienen.

Podcast tile art for Imperfect Paradise, from LAist Studios; Tacos for Texas, from KUT; alt.Latino, from NPR; ¿Quién Are We?, from Colorado Public Radio; El Sonido, from KEXP; Radio Ambulante, from NPR

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From vegan taqueros to a political scandal, check out these podcasts by Latinos

6:00am September 29, 2023

Latino stories matter through Hispanic Heritage Month and beyond. The NPR One team has podcast recommendations that are as varied and important as the community they come from.

From Trump's nickname to Commander Biden's bad behavior, can you beat the news quiz?

5:00am September 29, 2023

by Holly J. Morris

This week's GOP debate was overshadowed by who wasn't there, while the White House was roiled by more bad behavior from a four-legged inhabitant. Were you paying attention?