Pop Culture

How the Game Stop short squeeze movie got made

4:57pm September 21, 2023

by Alexi Horowitz-Ghazi

The film Dumb Money tells the story of how Game Stop went from the brink of bankruptcy to its emergence as a "meme stock." But the story of how the movie got made is a drama of its own.

Queue Listen Now

Leslie Jones says she was 19 when Jamie Foxx told her she needed to live life — get hired, get fired, fall in love — in order to be truly funny.

Books
Arts

How comic Leslie Jones went from funniest person on campus to 'SNL' star

1:29pm September 21, 2023

by Tonya Mosley

Jones says performing stand-up for the first time as a freshman in college felt like putting on a shirt that fit perfectly: "It was just so natural." Her memoir is Leslie F*cking Jones.

Queue Listen Now

A screenshot from the premiere of The Joy of Painting shows the painter Bob Ross with the work, A Walk in the Woods, which is up for sale.

This rare Bob Ross painting could be yours — for close to $10 million

4:36pm September 20, 2023

by Emily Olson

The late pop culture icon once said he painted over 30,000 works of art in his lifetime, but it's rare for an authenticated Ross piece to come on the market, let alone one with this much history.

Queue Listen Now

Pop culture criticized again for excluding achievements of women, people of color

5:09am September 19, 2023

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to culture critic Nelson George about racism and sexism among the gatekeepers of pop culture. An interview by Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner set off the latest firestorm.

The fallout of Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner's remarks on Black, women musicians

5:41pm September 18, 2023

by Eric Deggans

Rolling Stone magazine co-founder Jann Wenner is facing criticism for saying that Black and female musicians were not "articulate" enough to be included in his new book.

Queue Listen Now

National

One of the U.S.'s priciest fighter jets is missing. The internet's having fun with it

4:40pm September 18, 2023

by Jay Price

Have you seen this plane? The U.S. military is looking for an $80 million fighter jet. Officials say a mishap forced the pilot to eject somewhere near Charleston, S.C.

Queue Listen Now

Other people just going about their lives in public are not fodder for your social media. Let's think a little harder about the etiquette of putting pictures and videos of strangers up online.

Arts

Maybe think twice before making an innocent stranger go viral?

7:00am September 17, 2023

by Linda Holmes

Other people just going about their lives in public are not fodder for your social media. Let's think a little harder about the etiquette of putting pictures and videos of strangers up online.

A detail from the cover of Jaguar II, the new album from Victoria Monét.

Arts
Books

What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend reading and listening

8:09pm September 15, 2023

Each week, Pop Culture Happy Hour guests and hosts share what's bringing them joy. This week: The audiobooks Mythos and Why We Love Baseball, and the new albums Jaguar II and Blame My Ex.

Alex Levy (Jennifer Aniston) remains a real pill, not that The Morning Show has noticed.

Arts

'The Morning Show' is back, with a new billionaire

5:01am September 13, 2023

by Linda Holmes

In Season 3 of the Apple drama, a billionaire played by Jon Hamm may be buying the network, and it has everyone concerned. Imagine that!

When the home that was featured — at least its outside — on The Brady Bunch went on the market, buyer Tina Trahan reportedly told her agent she was "obsessed" with the single-story, mid century ranch style house.

National

After months on the market, 'The Brady Bunch' house sells for $3.2 million

5:00am September 13, 2023

by Vanessa Romo

HGTV, which bought the house in 2018, paid well over asking then poured nearly $2 million into a renovation to recreate the 1970s set. But it seems nostalgia was not enough to cover the asking price.