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For June, 3 Romances That Prove Love Is Love Is Love

5:00am June 19, 2021

by Maya Rodale

For Pride Month, we're bringing you some of the best queer romances around, starring daring English highwaymen, mysterious secret operatives and a long-lost (and extremely reluctant) princess.

Detective Jimmy McNulty (Dominic West) in The Wire

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How TV Dramas Informed And Misinformed Perceptions Of The War On Drugs

4:35pm June 18, 2021

by Eric Deggans

From Miami Vice, to The Wire, to Orange Is the New Black, scripted TV shows have had a serious and sometimes unrecognized impact on public attitudes about drugs in America.

From left, Russell and Ron Mael, who record as Sparks, photographed in 1982 during the cover shoot for their album Angst In My Pants.

50 Years Of Sparks: The World Ain't Big Enough For The Both Of Them

4:35pm June 18, 2021

by Bob Mondello

The eclectic, prolific and beloved brother-brother pop duo is marking 50 years this year – but, somehow, you've never heard their music? Let's fix that.

Kiese Laymon recommends social justice themed books.

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5 Books To Read On Social Justice That Go Beyond The Instructive

4:35pm June 18, 2021

by Audie Cornish

Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy and Long Division, recommends five "incisive and innovative" books on social justice for Juneteenth.

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An Aspiring Aerobics Instructor Exorcises Her Inner Demons In 'Physical'

1:51pm June 18, 2021

by David Bianculli

Set in the 1980s, a new dark comedy on Apple TV+ centers on a woman whose husband is running for public office in San Diego, but who has aspirations of her own to produce an aerobics exercise tape.

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Remembering Character Actor Ned Beatty

1:51pm June 18, 2021

by Terry Gross

Beatty, who died June 13, made his film debut in Deliverance and then went on to appear in scores of movies, including Network, All the President's Men and Superman. Originally broadcast in 1987.

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Check-In: Dog Sitting

7:39am June 18, 2021

Host Ophira Eisenberg and Jonathan Coulton discuss the ups and downs of short-term dog ownership, known to many as "dog sitting."

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Commerical VOs

7:39am June 18, 2021

In this audio quiz, Hacks creators Lucia Aniello and Paul W. Downs are subjected to that very thing as they guess celebrity voiceovers from TV ads.

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Quirky Capitals

7:39am June 18, 2021

In this game, U.S. capital cities are ruined-- or, improved?-- by changing the first letter of their names.

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Other Aughts

7:39am June 18, 2021

In this music parody Bethany Van Delft (Parentalogic) and Donwill (Tanya Morgan) take on popular songs from the 2000s that are rewritten to make them about things from the "aughts" of other centuries.

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