Arts & Life

How Youtube Chef Tito Charly Gained Internet Fame During The Coronavirus Pandemic

7:58am June 21, 2020

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with Tito Charly about the popularity of his Youtube cooking channel, which he started after losing his job in Mexico due to the pandemic.

Anglebert Maurice Kakuja, 29, a Sapeur, or Congolese dandy, shows off his fashion sense while wearing a homemade mask in the eastern Congolese city of Bukavu. Sapeurs take their name from the acronym for their group: Societe des Ambianceurs et des Personn

PHOTOS: The Masks Of Congo Are Worn To Protect, To Protest — And To Strike A Pose

7:00am June 21, 2020

by Marc Silver

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, citizens are required by law to wear a mask in public. But the face coverings can have many meanings and materials — including banana leaves.

A copy of John Bolton's new book, The Room Where It Happened, stands in the White House briefing room. On Saturday, a federal judge declined the Trump administration's request to block the publication of the former national security adviser's book.

Judge Allows Bolton Memoir To Proceed, Despite Trump Administration Objection

4:36pm June 20, 2020

by Colin Dwyer

The request for an injunction to block publication says the book compromises national security. But after a federal court order Saturday, the tell-all remains on track for a Tuesday release.

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Not My Job: We Quiz A Bat Expert On Tab Soda

9:04am June 20, 2020

Our game is called "All the flavor of guano with none of the calories." Evolutionary biologist Dan Riskin answers three questions about Tab diet cola — (that's bat backwards).

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In 'Love,' Roddy Doyle Mines The Past — Over Many, Many Pints

8:09am June 20, 2020

by Scott Simon

In Doyle's new novel, two old friends meet at a Dublin pub for a night of reconnecting and hard drinking. Joe has a burning secret; Davy has a concealed sorrow.

Matthew Rhys plays Perry Mason in the new HBO reboot of the legal drama based on Erle Stanley Gardner's detective stories. "To my mind, he makes a good private investigator because he doesn't fit in in any way," Rhys says.

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'Perry Mason' Reboot Is No Rerun: This Is A 'Very Dark' Take, Says Matthew Rhys

8:09am June 20, 2020

by Scott Simon

Welsh actor Matthew Rhys stars in the HBO version of the 1960s legal drama. This Perry Mason is a seamy, slovenly private eye in 1932 Los Angeles. "He doesn't fit in in any way," Rhys says.

Democracy in One Book or Less: How It Works, Why It Doesn't, and Why Fixing It Is Easier Than You Think, by David Litt

'Democracy In One Book Or Less' Proposes Solutions To U.S. Government Ills

4:25pm June 19, 2020

by Martha Anne Toll

David Litt, former speechwriter to President Obama and author of Thanks, Obama, refreshingly debunks myths about our founders, pointing up false narratives and warped historical perceptions.

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Rage Against The Machines

3:36pm June 19, 2020

Comedians Solomon Georgio (High Fidelity, Shrill writer) and Casey Ley (The Gay Power Half Hour podcast) try to identify machines by the sounds they make.

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Drag Herstory

3:36pm June 19, 2020

Just in time for Pride month, comedians Solomon Georgio and Casey Ley play a multiple-choice quiz about drag herstory.

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Needle Drops

3:36pm June 19, 2020

House musician Jonathan Coulton challenges the creators of the IFC series Sherman's Showcase Diallo Riddle and Bashir Salahuddin to a music parody game about songs famously associated with movies.

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