Arts & Life

Musician Trombone Shorty attends the 63rd NBA All-Star Game 2014 at the Smoothie King Center on February 2014 in New Orleans.

Arts

Not My Job: Trombone Shorty Gets Quizzed On Obscure Musical Instruments

8:54am March 27, 2015

We're in New Orleans this week, so we've invited Troy Andrews — better known as Trombone Shorty — to answer three questions about instruments you've probably never heard of.

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The HBO documentary Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief airs Sunday — over the vigorous objection of Scientology officials.

Church Of Scientology Calls New HBO Documentary 'Bigoted'

8:34am March 27, 2015

by Tom Gjelten

The filmmaker of Going Clear, which is critical of the church, says the documentary treats the dangers of "blind faith." Scientology officials have hit back with their own public relations effort.

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Books
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Do You Believe In Ghosts? You Might After Reading This Book

6:13pm March 26, 2015

by Maureen Corrigan

Sante Fe's most famous ghost is Hannah Nordhaus' great-great-grandmother. Her new book, American Ghost, is mix of memoir, cultural history, genealogical detective story and paranormal investigation.

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David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson (pictured above) are both returning to The X-Files.

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Small Batch Edition: Talking 'X-Files' With Kumail Nanjiani

6:03pm March 26, 2015

by Linda Holmes

On today's Small Batch Edition of Pop Culture Happy Hour, we talk to comedian, actor and podcaster Kumail Nanjiani about the return of The X-Files — a TV show about which he has a podcast.

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Silly, Saucy, Scary: Photos Show The Many Faces Of Ugly Fruit

5:34pm March 26, 2015

by Maria Godoy

Wonky produce can take on absurdly entertaining shapes. But one food activist says learning to love these crazy contours is key to stopping mounds of food waste.

Timothy Olyphant plays Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens on FX's Justified, which is based on a novella by Elmore Leonard. The show's creator, Graham Yost, says the only "tussle" the writers had with Leonard happened during the pilot, over which hat Rayla

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'Justified' Creator Aims To Stay True To The Late Writer Elmore Leonard

3:29pm March 26, 2015

The FX series, now in its final season, is based on Leonard's novella Fire in the Hole. Showrunner Graham Yost says, "I look at this show as Elmore Leonard's show, and we're all in service of him."

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Arts

It's All Swedish To Me

10:17am March 26, 2015

In this game we honor the best cook in television history: The Swedish Chef from The Muppets. All the answers must be repeated three times in his signature accent and will rhyme with "bork-bork-bork!"

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Retro Is The New Retro

10:17am March 26, 2015

Here's a linguistic oddity for you: Retronyms are names for things that have to be altered after newer versions appear. What retronym was needed after the electric guitar arrived? Acoustic guitar.

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Instrument Man

10:17am March 26, 2015

Sing us a song you're the... Glockenspiel Man? House musician Jonathan Coulton sings Billy Joel's Piano Man with the lyrics rewritten to be about a musical dude jamming out on other instruments.

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Arts

Disconsolate Consonants

10:17am March 26, 2015

Why are these consonants so gloomy? Because they're all alone. Each answer is a word with just one consonant. For example, the letter D is surrounded by vowels in a French word meaning goodbye: adieu.

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