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Daryl McCormack plays a sex worker, and Emma Thompson is a retired schoolteacher in the Hulu film, Good Luck to You, Leo Grande.

Arts

Age is just a number in Sundance hits 'Leo Grande' and 'Cha Cha Real Smooth'

5:00am June 17, 2022

by Justin Chang

Emma Thompson stars as an older woman who hires a younger sex worker in Good Luck to You, Leo Grande. Dakota Johnson is a single mother who's wooed by a recent college grad in Cha Cha Real Smooth.

(L-R) Curt Flood, Bill White, Bob Gibson

Black baseball players struggled long after Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier

5:00am June 17, 2022

After Jackie, a new History Channel documentary, tells the stories of three of the Black baseball players who followed Jackie Robinson into the major leagues.

Scalene Onixxx reads during Drag Queen Story Hour at Cellar Door Books in Riverside, Calif., in 2019

Some lawmakers hope to crack down on drag shows watched by children

7:52pm June 16, 2022

by Mandalit del Barco

Republican legislators in Florida, Arizona, Texas and other states have proposed to ban minors from drag shows.

Culture

1Love Festival celebrates African diasporic culture through arts, innovation, and conversation

1:32pm June 16, 2022

by David Ford

The 1Love Festival returns to Winston-Salem this weekend following a two-year pandemic-related hiatus.

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A man walks past the closed Ikea shop at a Moscow shopping mall on April 11.

Ikea packs up Russian operations and plans sale of factories

12:29pm June 16, 2022

by Alina Selyukh

The Swedish furniture giant previously shut Russian stores and now says it cannot see a way to resume operations "any time soon" as the war in Ukraine continues.

In new edition of classic Watergate expose, Woodward and Bernstein link Nixon, Trump

12:28pm June 16, 2022

by Ron Elving

50 years on, the authors profess amazement that another president came along willing to jettison whatever conscience he had, and whatever respect for the rule of law, in an effort to stay in office.

Haley Reinhart performs during the homecoming for American Idol Season 10 in Arlington Heights, Ill.

The best 'American Idol' contestants of all time, ranked — according to your votes

8:57am June 16, 2022

by Linda Holmes

NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour asked listeners to vote on their favorite American Idol contestants of all time.

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Constantine Tsioulcas, holding his daughter Anastasia as a baby.

A father's recipe that crossed three continents

5:01am June 16, 2022

by Anastasia Tsioulcas

Papa's recipe traveled over generations from Greece to Egypt and back again. It will never mean the same thing to the people who randomly find it online, but it will still be delicious.

Meghan Stabile, photographed onstage with Robert Glasper during Winter Jazzfest 2020.

Meghan Stabile, promoter who united jazz and hip-hop, dead at 39

6:14pm June 15, 2022

by Nate Chinen

"We get so stuck on categories and labels that you completely miss the point of really beautiful, authentic forms of art," Stabille told Jazz Night in America in 2015.

Encore: Grilling is easier than you think. Here's how to start

4:43pm June 15, 2022

Intimidated by grilling? In this guide, learn the basics from which type of grill to choose, to how to maintain a fire and create different temperature zones, to tips on tools and safety.

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