Rhyme Signature
Ophira Eisenberg and Jonathan Coulton conduct and instruct the contestants to answer with a musical term and a rhyming word.
Arts & Life
Literature After Dark
Esmerelda, u up? In this game, literary romances are rewritten as flirty late-night texts.
This, That, Or The Other: Archaic British Insults Edition
Contestants try not to be total shabbaroons as they guess whether a word is a music festival, a children's television show, or a 19th-century British insult.
Purple Prince
This is what it sounds like when the contestants play a music parody game based around Prince's discography and the artist's favorite color.
Future Imperfect With John Cameron Mitchell
Writer and performer John Cameron Mitchell plays a game about past predictions of life in the 21st century. It'll make you think, "Yeah, why don't we have super chimpanzees?"
Make It a Double
Finalists go double-or-nothing in a quiz where every answer begins with "double."
A Poem For Those Who Dropped The Ball On New Year's Resolutions
As 2020 rang in, there were inevitable promises to diet, exercise and save money. Poet Kwame Alexander shares a community poem of audience-submitted couplets inspired by broken New Year's promises.
Academy of American Poets Receives $4.5 Million Grant
The grant, thought to be the largest-ever from a philanthropic institution for poetry, will enable the academy to fund its Poets Laureate Fellowship program for the next three years.
'The Rhythm Section' Misses A Beat
Stephanie (Blake Lively) trains to become a super-assassin to avenge the murder of her parents in this well-paced, well-directed, but poorly scripted Bond knockoff.
'The Assistant': When A Workplace's Silence Can't Be Broken
In this "quietly shattering drama," a young woman (Julia Garner) learns that her new boss is a serial sexual predator; her efforts to call him out meet with indifference and hostility.