Pop Culture

Rachel and Nick smooch in a highly realistic, tooooootally normal romantic situation on The Bachelor. Spoiler alert: He isn't going to pick her, because she's the next Bachelorette.

Arts

The Purely Accidental Lessons Of The First Black 'Bachelorette'

4:55pm February 14, 2017

by Linda Holmes

Television shows don't have to be good or smart to tell you something about the culture that spawns them, and you might be surprised how much The Bachelor has to say about power.

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Adele broke her Album Of The Year Grammy in an effort to share it with Beyoncé.

Music & Culture

10 Hasty Takeaways From Grammy Night, Starting With Adele

6:02pm February 13, 2017

by Stephen Thompson

From Adele beating Beyoncé to whatever was going on with Lady Gaga and Metallica, take a look back at Sunday night's Grammy Awards.

Melissa McCarthy was back as White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer, demonstrating TSA procedures.

Melissa McCarthy's 'Spicey' And Alec Baldwin's Trump Return To 'SNL'

11:19am February 12, 2017

Melissa McCarthy got a lot of attention for her enraged impression of White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer last week. This week she was back, along with Alec Baldwin reprising Donald Trump.

In The Flame and the Flood, you'll die. A lot. (See that wolf?) But each time, you'll learn something new.

Arts

Reading The Game: The Flame In The Flood

10:00am February 12, 2017

by Jason Sheehan

In The Flame in the Flood, you play as a young girl surviving in a post-apocalyptic landscape, floating down a river on an improvised raft, with nothing but your wits and your faithful dog beside you.

What's Galentine's Day, you ask? It's only the greatest gift we've ever gotten from Leslie Knope, the unfailingly earnest bureaucrat at the helm of the NBC series Parks and Recreation

Arts

Galentine's Day: Celebrating Women, Waffles, And, OK, More Waffles

9:00am February 12, 2017

by Kristen Hartke

Monday's the day to celebrate the best unofficial holiday made just for women: Galentine's Day. And for that, we thank our lady of Parks and Recreation, Leslie Knope.

Sports
Arts

Ahead Of NBA All-Star Weekend, Looking At The Fashion-Forward Players

7:45am February 12, 2017

In addition to the games, the NBA All-Star Weekend is a bit of a fashion event. Motez Bishara of CNN tells NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro about basketball's biggest fashion stars.

Music & Culture

David Axelrod, Musical Visionary And Historical Propellant, Remembered

6:15pm February 11, 2017

by Egon

David Axelrod was a genre-fusing genius, a visionary artist in a boxer's body, a producer and composer who propelled popular music into an unknown future.

This is not a photo of Stephen Colbert answering the questions we planned to ask Lena Dunham, but rather, testifying before the House Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security and International Law subcommittee in September 2010. His face kind o

Arts

Not My Job: We Ask Stephen Colbert 3 Questions Meant For Lena Dunham

12:14pm February 11, 2017

We planned to have the creator and star of HBO's Girls on the show this week, but when a snowstorm kept her from joining us, we quickly tracked down someone who didn't have any Thursday evening plans.

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Grey Gardens, Famed Home Of Jackie Kennedy Relatives, For Sale

6:35pm February 10, 2017

Grey Gardens — the Long Island estate made famous in the 1975 documentary about Jackie Kennedy Onassis' reclusive cousins — is back on the market after 40 years.

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Tom and Dick Smothers battled with CBS censors over the content of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour.

Arts

50 Years Later, The Biting Satire Of 'The Smothers Brothers' Still Resonates

2:42pm February 10, 2017

by David Bianculli

Before SNL and The Daily Show, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour mixed entertainment and advocacy in a way that influenced a generation of satirical political shows. Critic David Bianculli looks back.

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