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Fyre Festival attendees walk around the event site on Thursday night in Grand Exuma, Bahamas. Festivalgoers had paid thousands of dollars for villas and lodges on the beach, but instead found a chaotic tent city.

Paradise Lost: Luxury Music Festival Turns Out To Be Half-Built Scene Of Chaos

5:32pm April 28, 2017

by Laurel Wamsley

Tickets cost thousands for what organizers were calling "the cultural event of the decade." But when visitors arrived on Grand Exuma, they found a tent city without enough power, security, or food.

Peter Quill (Chris Pratt) and Drax (Dave Bautista) in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2.

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Pop Culture Happy Hour: Our Great Big Summer Movie Preview

10:43am April 28, 2017

by Linda Holmes

Every year at this time, we sit down to make reckless box office predictions and talk up the films we're most excited to see. This time around, we're joined by Audie Cornish of All Things Considered.

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'Dear White People' Creator Calls The Netflix Series 'A Conversation Starter'

9:20am April 28, 2017

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Justin Simien, the creator and writer of Dear White People, a film-turned-Netflix series about being black at a mostly white elite college.

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Wes Moore speaks at the Robin Hood Veterans Summit at Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum on May 7, 2012 in New York City.

This Week In Race: Fox Sued, Schools Resegregate, Shea Moisture Gets Thirsty

9:05am April 28, 2017

by Karen Grigsby Bates

A racial discrimination suit is filed against Fox. Is an Alabama school district getting around integration? Shea Moisture apologizes for a commercial. And, there's a new philanthropist in town.

Actresses Logan Browning (left) and Ashley Blaine Featherson appear in a scene from the Netflix show Dear White People.

This Time, 'Dear White People' Is Not So Much About Them

5:52pm April 27, 2017

by Eric Deggans

Netflix's hit show, with its incessant and incisive look at race at a fictional Ivy League college, doesn't really focus much on white people at all.

Swipe Right To Help Save The Northern White Rhino From Extinction

7:54pm April 26, 2017

To fund in vitro fertilization research, Ol Pejeta Conservancy CEO Richard Vigne says researchers teamed up with the dating app Tinder to feature "Sudan" as the "Most Eligible Bachelor in the World."

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The few fertile women remaining in the oppressive Republic of Gilead must serve as reproductive surrogates for powerful leaders in the TV adaptation of Margaret Atwood's 1985 dystopian novel, The Handmaid's Tale.

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'Handmaid's Tale' Wants You To Feel Like 'This Could Happen Here'

6:26pm April 26, 2017

by Audie Cornish

Elisabeth Moss and Samira Wiley star in Hulu's TV adaptation of Margaret Atwood's 1985 dystopian novel — in which fertile women become reproductive surrogates for powerful men and their barren wives.

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Nordstrom Makes Down-To-Earth Appeal To High-End Market With $425 Fake Mud Jeans

5:11pm April 26, 2017

A pair of $425 men's jeans is getting heat online for it's Americana feel with "crackled, caked-on muddy coating." Washington Post fashion critic Robin Givhan explains that these pants are a part of the fashion industry's desire to be authentic and edgy.

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Hulu's 'Handmaid's Tale' Delivers A Timely And Feminist Message

2:06pm April 26, 2017

by David Bianculli

A new 10-part adaptation of Margaret Atwood's 1986 novel stars Elisabeth Moss as a woman living in a totalitarian state. Critic David Bianculli says the miniseries depicts a bleak and haunting future.

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'Veep' Executive Producer On Making A Show About The 'Craven Desire For Power'

2:06pm April 26, 2017

The HBO series is now in its sixth season. Producer Frank Rich also writes a column for New York magazine about the intersection of politics and popular culture.

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