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A new South Florida dialect is forming in real time

9:48am June 18, 2023

by Ayesha Rascoe

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Philip M. Carter, professor of linguistics at Florida International University, about a new Spanish-influenced dialect of English being spoken in Southern Florida.

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'The Dos and Donuts of Love' is a delectably delightful, reality TV tale

6:00am June 18, 2023

by Alethea Kontis

Bangladeshi-Irish author Adiba Jaigirdar's latest YA romance promises a spoonful of drama and a dash of deception, leading to a well-baked resolution.

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'Wait Wait' for June 17, 2023: With Not My Job guest James Marsden

9:56am June 17, 2023

James Marsden does it all, from romantic leads to mutants. But his role in Jury Duty may be the hardest of them all: James Marsden, but kind of a jerk? Can he answer our questions about REAL juries?

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Caribbean literature to read this summer.

Debut novel 'The God of Good Looks' adds to growing canon of Caribbean literature

9:08am June 17, 2023

by Carole V. Bell

A growing number of high-profile novels are coming out of the Caribbean and the Caribbean diaspora. And the region has long been punching above its weight on the international literary scene.

Two New Orleans-area residents wear 3D glasses for a Revenge of the Creature screening in February 1982.

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If you don't love the 3D movie experience, you're not alone

7:00am June 17, 2023

by Linda Holmes

Critic Linda Holmes has always been a 3D skeptic — the glasses are fiddly and become plastic junk, the gimmicks wear off, it gets distracting, and it introduces opportunities for technical problems.

Two masks of the Indigenous community of the Kogi from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Colombia are displayed at the presidential palace in Berlin on June 16, 2023.

Germany hands over 2 Indigenous masks to Colombia as it reappraises its colonial past

1:03am June 17, 2023

by The Associated Press

The wooden "sun masks," which date back to the mid-15th century, were handed over at the presidential palace during a visit to Berlin by Colombian President Gustavo Petro

When A Martinez's new work desk looked barren, he picked up this statue of The Flash at a comic book store.

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Every superhero has an origin story. So does every superhero's superfan. Here's mine.

5:03pm June 16, 2023

by A Martínez

"I always made the decision to run, and I usually got away." A Martinez found a relatable and human superhero in The Flash, and grew up to be a superfan.

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A critically ill girl got to see her dad, thanks to an office worker who stayed late

4:40pm June 16, 2023

Daniel Willingham was on the road when his wife called that their hospitalized child. A young man gave up his evening so that he could get his passport to be with his sick daughter a little sooner.

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In episode "Demon 79" an employee at a department store (Anjana Vasan) is visited by an apprentice demon (Paapa Essiedu).

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5 new 'Black Mirror' episodes have dropped — and there's not a dud in the bunch

1:52pm June 16, 2023

by David Bianculli

These are the first new Black Mirror episodes since before the pandemic. The show continues to be among the best anthology TV series ever made.

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The author and his dad in Massachusetts in 1995.

Sports
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Fake stats, real nostalgia: Bonding with my dad through simulation baseball

8:44am June 16, 2023

by Joshua Willis

The real magic of simulation baseball is that it gives me and my dad something to take seriously that isn't actually serious. The games don't matter, but who you play them with really does.