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

5:00pm October 18, 2024

Each week, guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: Ariana Grande hosting SNL, Jimmy Buffett’s album A1A and the movie Wicked Little Letters.

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From political change to spooky traditions, check out these new podcasts

12:54pm October 18, 2024

Halloween and election night are right around the corner. Whether you're casting ballots or spells, add these public media podcast recommendations from the NPR One team to your playlist.

Charles Ives’ vision of America still strikes an unsettling chord

12:47pm October 18, 2024

To mark the 150th anniversary of the maverick American composer’s birth, pianist Jeremy Denk releases an Ives tribute album that educates, delights and confounds.

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Are you good at knowing when something should end? Mark Duplass is still learning

10:12am October 18, 2024

How do you manage envy? Can you deal with things ending? Actor-writer-director-producer Mark Duplass tackles the Wild Card question.

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A sex worker marries the son of a Russian oligarch in the comically chaotic 'Anora'

8:27am October 18, 2024

Anora is easily one of Sean Baker’s funniest works — and also one of the saddest. The film won the Palme d'Or at Cannes, and the director says it's dedicated to sex workers "past, present and future."

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Lin-Manuel Miranda's new musical is based on a cult movie — and is for your ears only

5:30am October 18, 2024

A new concept album from the creator of Hamilton sets a cult classic film to a starry hiphop, rock and Broadway soundtrack.

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Vegan cheese doesn't melt like the real deal. That could soon change

5:21am October 18, 2024

by Barry Gordemer

An Israeli company may have taken a huge step forward in the quest for a vegan cheese with the taste and texture of the real thing.

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Audrey Nuna: Tiny Desk Concert

5:00am October 18, 2024

The artist’s setlist perfectly encapsulates how much musical ground she’s able to cover.

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Sterlin Harjo says 'Reservation Dogs' gives audiences permission to laugh

5:00am October 18, 2024

Harjo was recently named a 2024 MacArthur Fellow. His TV show Reservation Dogs focused on group of teenagers living on a Native reservation in rural Oklahoma. Originally broadcast Sept. 19, 2022.

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Tom Petty to 'Fresh Air': 'The songs mean a lot to people, and it means a lot to me'

5:00am October 18, 2024

Petty's classic album is being rereleased as Long After Dark Deluxe, including seven previously unreleased songs. Petty, who died in 2017, spoke to Fresh Air in 2006 about his influences.

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