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'Invisible Beauty' explores Bethann Hardison's role as a fashion trailblazer

1:56pm September 11, 2023

by Tonya Mosley

Hardison, who started modeling in the late '60s, describes herself the first "Black, Black" model. She went on to own her own modeling agency. A new documentary tells her story.

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This 1:24 scale miniature was used to film pivotal scenes from the first Star Wars film. It's now at the center of a auction of items collected over decades by Greg Jein, a master model-builder for film and TV.

'Star Wars' Red Leader X-wing model heads a cargo bay's worth of props at auction

1:51pm September 11, 2023

by Bill Chappell

More than 550 items from the late Greg Jein are heading to auction, from Nichelle Nichols' iconic knee-high boots and red tunic as Lt. Uhura to a hairpiece for William Shatner's Captain Kirk.

Hostess Brands, best known for its Twinkies, is being bought by jelly-maker J.M. Smucker.

Twinkies are sold! J.M. Smucker scoops up Hostess Brands for $5.6 billion

12:41pm September 11, 2023

by Alina Selyukh

For Hostess, the deal with the peanut-butter-and-jelly conglomerate is a sweet win after not one, but two bankruptcies.

Encore: Strikes kick Hollywood side hustles into high gear

6:09pm September 09, 2023

by Mandalit del Barco

As the Hollywood strike stretches on, we check in with strikers about what they're doing to make ends meet.

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Star Trek's George Takei and LaVar Burton on strike outside Paramount Pictures

'Star Trek' stars join the picket lines in Hollywood

2:42pm September 09, 2023

by Mandalit del Barco

Stars of Star Trek and its many spinoffs gathered outside Paramount Pictures during the labor dispute.

Martinus Evans in a Slow AF Run Club shirt

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'Wait Wait' for September 9, 2023: With Not My Job guest Martinus Evans

9:11am September 09, 2023

Martinus Evans is a fitness influencer and the founder of the radically inclusive Slow AF Run Club. He may be proudly slow, but can he answer our questions about something fast AF, the Concorde jet?

In the daily Connections puzzle from The New York Times, players divide a grid of 16 words into four groups of four.

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Puzzlers gather 'round the digital water cooler to talk daily games

9:01am September 09, 2023

by Linda Holmes

With smaller, fragmented audiences, water-cooler TV moments now are few and far between. But you can scratch that itch on social media, posting about your daily puzzle habit.

Ghassan Zeineddine, author of the short story collection, Dearborn.

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Arab American stories interconnect in the new collection, 'Dearborn'

8:08am September 09, 2023

by Neda Ulaby

Author Ghassan Zeineddine's new collection of short stories, Dearborn, takes a tenderhearted look at interconnected characters in the largest Arab American community in the country

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Why one man has spent much of life trying to climb a near-impossible summit

8:04am September 09, 2023

by Shelby Herbert

Well known by rock climbers, Devil's Thumb stands about 9,000 feet high over the Gulf of Alaska. One man has spent much of his life trying to reach its summit.

How climate change is threatening a fishing community in coastal India

8:04am September 09, 2023

by Namrata Kolachalam

For Mumbai's Koli people, the full moon marks the traditional end of the monsoon rains and a chance to return to the sea. Climate change is threatening their way of life.