pop culture happy hour

Code Switch co-host weighs in on basketball, housing, and two Donalds

3:27pm June 10, 2024

Gene Demby on what former NBA Clippers team owner Donald Sterling getting banned for life from the league has to do with Donald Trump and racist housing policy.

Code Switch co-host weighs in on basketball, housing, and two Donalds

3:27pm June 10, 2024

Gene Demby on what former NBA Clippers team owner Donald Sterling getting banned for life from the league has to do with Donald Trump and racist housing policy.

Janelle Monáe attends the 95th Annual Academy Awards on March 12, 2023 in Hollywood, Calif.

What's making us happy: A guide to your weekend listening and viewing

5:00pm May 19, 2023

Each week, the guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: The Soundtrack Show, Reservation Dogs, Janelle Monáe and more.

People order pallets of online returns, knowing either something or next to nothing about what they're getting, and then they open the pallets for the benefit of YouTube viewers.

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The (not-so) secret second life of your Amazon returns

9:58am January 12, 2022

by Linda Holmes

People order pallets of online returns, knowing either something or next to nothing about what they're getting, and then they open the pallets for the benefit of YouTube viewers.

Stan Lee, American comic book writer, editor, publisher and former President of Marvel Comics, attends the premiere of Doctor Strange in 2016. Lee died Monday at the age of 95.

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A True Believer Remembers Stan Lee

6:25pm November 12, 2018

by Glen Weldon

Stan Lee — born Stanley Martin Lieber — co-created many beloved Marvel Comics characters, but he became the company's tireless, beloved figurehead. NPR's Glen Weldon offers a remembrance.

Amy Poehler and Nick Offerman host NBC's new craft competition, Making It.

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Crafts Get The Competitive Treatment In NBC's 'Making It'

8:51am July 30, 2018

by Linda Holmes

If you enjoy glitter and glue and a good time, Making It might be just the summer diversion for the builder and baker and diorama maker in you.

The cast and crew of The Handmaid's Tale — including Emmy winners Ann Dowd and Elisabeth Moss, actress Samira Wiley, and author Margaret Atwood — onstage during the 69th Primetime Emmy Awards.

At The Emmys, It Was A Big Night For Juggernauts

9:46am September 18, 2017

by Stephen Thompson

The Handmaid's Tale, Big Little Lies, Saturday Night Live, Veep and Atlanta all won multiple awards in major categories, on a night that rarely strayed far from current events.

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Television producer Shonda Rhimes at the 2017 Success Makers Summit in New York City.

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Picking Pop Culture's People We're Pulling For

6:00am September 13, 2017

by Stephen Thompson

A comedian, a TV mogul, a wonderfully eccentric author and a deeply dry character actor all get Pop Culture Happy Hour's stamp of approval.

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Jamie Fraser (Sam Heughan), the dashing Highland warrior.

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New Season Of 'Outlander' Is So Much More Than A Hunky Face (And Rock-Hard Abs)

10:53am September 08, 2017

by Barrie Hardymon

On the eve of Outlander's third season, Pop Culture Happy Hour has thoughts on the Starz drama and its depictions of sex, intimacy and time travel.

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Home Again stars Reese Witherspoon as a freshly separated woman who opens her home to three young filmmakers. "She can make any word relatable," Meyers-Shyer says of the actress. "She can really say anything and you are with her."

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Mother-Daughter Filmmakers Continue Rom-Com Family Tradition In 'Home Again'

6:00am September 06, 2017

by Linda Holmes

Hallie Meyers-Shyer says she doesn't mind being compared to her mom, Nancy Meyers (Something's Gotta Give, The Intern). "She's synonymous with the genre and I think it's been a positive influence."

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