Pop Culture

Mike Wheeler (Finn Wolfhand) and Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown).

Arts

Pop Culture Happy Hour: 'Stranger Things' And Onscreen Weddings

5:00am July 29, 2016

by Stephen Thompson

The panel tackles the Netflix horror thriller Stranger Things before discussing favorite weddings from movies and TV. Then, as always, it's on to What's Making Us Happy this week.

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A cover for Mad magazine by artist Jack Davis.

Jack Davis, Cartoonist Who Helped Found 'Mad' Magazine, Dies At 91

5:54pm July 28, 2016

by Bill Chappell

Money from a job illustrating a Coca-Cola training manual became a springboard for him to move from Georgia to New York.

Skylan Brooks, Justice Smith, Tremaine Brown Jr., Shameik Moore, and Jaden Smith in The Get Down.

Arts

'It's Not My Story': Baz Luhrmann On Collaborating To Make 'The Get Down'

12:00pm July 28, 2016

by Linda Holmes

Linda Holmes offers another update from the Television Critics Association meeting, this time on Luhrmann's hip-hop Netflix series The Get Down.

Rory Gilmore (Alexis Bledel) and Lorelai Gilmore (Lauren Graham).

Arts

Stars Hollow Intel: A Few New Beans Are Spilled On The 'Gilmore Girls' Return

10:20am July 28, 2016

by Linda Holmes

From the Television Critics Association meeting in Los Angeles, Linda Holmes reports on Netflix's upcoming Gilmore Girls reunion.

Episode 714: Can a Game Show Lose?

3:37pm July 27, 2016

Crafting a TV game show is a balancing act. Producers have to carefully calibrate the rules, the drama and the prizes just right. Sometimes they get it way wrong.

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Schwinners and Losers: The cast of Netflix's Stranger Things.

Books

Kids On Bikes: The Sci-Fi Nostalgia Of 'Stranger Things', 'Paper Girls' & 'Super 8'

2:19pm July 27, 2016

by Glen Weldon

Three recent properties - a Netflix series, a comic book and a 2011 Hollywood film - borrow key elements from Steven Spielberg and Stephen King to comment on adolescence in very different ways.

Monica Gallagher's Bonnie N. Collide is a roller-derby skater with a dull day job and a tumultuous private life.

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Arts

Minicomics May Be Small, But They Pack Big Thrills

12:02pm July 27, 2016

by Etelka Lehoczky

Minicomics are kind of a relic — few artists now want to go to the trouble of printing and distributing paper comics. But there are still a few out there that are worth the trouble of hunting down.

Herizen Guardiola and Justice Smith in Baz Luhrmann's The Get Down, coming to Netflix in August.

Arts

Netflix, HBO, PBS And More Bring Their Upcoming Shows To Critics

7:00am July 26, 2016

by Linda Holmes

It's about time again for the Television Critics Association to meet in California, and we have a preview of the week to come.

Michael K. Williams says he has family members who remind him of Freddy, his character on HBO's The Night Of. "I still visit my family that's incarcerated and I see the good days, I see the bad days, I see the growth," he says.

Arts

No Longer Omar: Actor Michael K. Williams On Lucky Breaks And Letting Go

3:10pm July 25, 2016

Over the course of his career, Williams says he's learned to separate himself from his characters (like The Wire's Omar). In HBO's The Night Of, he plays a powerful prison inmate named Freddy.

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The Case Against The Shirley Temple (The Drink)

5:08pm July 24, 2016

Author and cocktail enthusiast Wayne Curtis wrote an article called "Shirley Temples Are Destroying America's Youth." He talks about why he hates Shirley Temples — the drink, not the person.