Kobe Bryant Memorial Held In Los Angeles
On Monday, mourners gathered at the Staples Center in Los Angeles to remember and celebrate the life of former NBA player Kobe Bryant.
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NAACP Image Awards Recognizes Artists Snubbed By Mainstream
The 51st NAACP Image Awards aired live on BET last night. In a year when the Oscars and other big awards failed to largely recognize people of color, the Image Awards grow in importance.
Jessica Simpson Talks Of Alcohol Abuse, Finding Herself Again In Memoir 'Open Book'
"There's never been a moment in my life that I've been more honest with myself," the pop singer tells NPR. "I finally feel free of everything that I was holding secret and holding to myself."
'To All The Boys' Star Noah Centineo Has An 'Inner Mr. Potato Head'
Centineo returns as possibly-perfect boyfriend Peter Kavinsky in To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You. He says meditation — and doodling cartoon characters — has helped him keep a sense of self.
'The Night Clerk': Hitchcockian Premise, Half-Cocked Execution
A hotel clerk (Tye Sheridan) hides a secret during a murder investigation in a film that explores the affinity between cinema and voyeurism flatly and without nuance.
'Young Ahmed' Is A Flawed But Complex Character Study
The premise — young Belgian Muslim sets out to murder one of his teachers — has drawn sharp criticism; the film itself is "hugely flawed" but more thoughtful than the controversy surrounding it.
Encore: Reflections From Conversations With Women In Comedy
NPR's Audie Cornish looks back on her series of conversations with women navigating the male-dominated world of comedy.
'Slow Burn' Captures The Drip-Drip-Drip Of Watergate
By focusing on figures who "played roles in the story that are larger than history remembers" this gripping adaptation of a hit podcast reminds us how slowly the Watergate scandal unfolded.
'Ordinary Love': Scenes From A Marriage Touched By Cancer
Lesley Manville and Liam Neeson bring a wry, lived-in tenderness to this "imperfect but affecting" tale of a long-married couple facing cancer together.
'Buffaloed': Debt Collecting For Fun And Profit
Peg (Zoey Deutch) goes into the debt-collection business in a comedy that focuses so narrowly on its self-absorbed main character that the world around her fades to obscurity.