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I Wish You All the Best, by Mason Deaver

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A Nonbinary Teen Makes Their Way In The World In 'I Wish You All The Best'

7:00am June 01, 2019

by Alethea Kontis

Mason Deaver's new young adult novel follows a teenager who's kicked out of their house after coming out as nonbinary. Deaver, who's also nonbinary, says it's the book they needed to read as a kid.

Asante Blackk plays young Kevin Richardson, one of the boys imprisoned for years only to be released when another man finally confessed.

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Horrors And Humanity In Ava DuVernay's Gripping 'When They See Us'

5:01am June 01, 2019

by Eric Deggans

Ava DuVernay's powerful Netflix series shows a system that frequently fails men of color — and the costs of that system to a famous group of boys who were in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Foul-mouthed brothel owner Al Swearengen (Ian McShane) is back in HBO's Deadwood: The Movie.

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13 Years Later, 'Deadwood' Goes Out Just As Brilliantly As It Came In

6:49pm May 31, 2019

by David Bianculli

David Milch, creator of HBO's Deadwood: The Movie, never strikes a false note upon his return to the lawless 19th century mining town at the center of his earlier series.

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Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge Opens With A Cosmic Soundscape Bringing It To Life

5:09pm May 31, 2019

by Tim Greiving

Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge, opens at Disneyland Friday. The attraction features sights and sounds of the universe, including a life size Millennium Falcon where the rider gets to fly the hunk of junk.

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Revisiting 'Deadwood,' With Star Timothy Olyphant And Creator David Milch

2:00pm May 31, 2019

by Terry Gross

HBO's Deadwood: The Movie picks up where the TV series ended in 2006. Olyphant and Milch spoke to Fresh Air about the series in separate interviews, originally broadcast in 2011 and 2005.

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Host Ophira Eisenberg chats with Trace Adkins on Ask Me Another at TPAC's Polk Theater in Nashville, Tennessee.

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Trace Adkins: Whiskey, Cigarettes, And Kale

11:06am May 31, 2019

Country music star and actor Trace Adkins shares the chance encounter that launched his career and reveals how he maintains that iconic deep baritone voice.

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Carlene Carter appears on Ask Me Another at TPAC's Polk Theater in Nashville, Tennessee.

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Carlene Carter: Country Music Royalty

11:06am May 31, 2019

Songwriter Carlene Carter explains how it felt to grow up in music and to carry on the family legacy. Then she plays a game guessing which artist or band is featured in a real pinball machine.

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Ask Me Another's house musician Jonathan Coulton leads a music parody game at TPAC's Polk Theater in Nashville, Tennessee.

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Robot Love Songs

10:58am May 31, 2019

Beep Boop Beep. Robots can't love us, but we can write love songs about them. In this music parody game, contestants identify the real and fictional robots as Jonathan Coulton serenades.

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Contestants Jarrod Walker and Peter Murrey play trivia games on Ask Me Another at TPAC's Polk Theater in Nashville, Tennessee.

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You're The Only Ten-I-See

10:58am May 31, 2019

In this guessing game nominally inspired by Tennessee, contestants guess whether a quantity is more than/greater than/higher than ten or fewer than/less than/lower than ten.

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Contestants compete in the final round Ask Me Another at TPAC's Polk Theater in Nashville, Tennessee.

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Grand Ole Finale

10:58am May 31, 2019

In this here Grand Ole Finale, every answer ends with the letters O-L-E.

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