Sunday Puzzle: Phonetically 'Gay'
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with KNRW listener Carina Aleckson of Minneapolis, Minnesota and Weekend Edition Puzzlemaster Will Shortz.
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How to manage the flurry of text messages on any given day? Texting etiquette explained.
NPR's Life Kit explains the basic rules of texting etiquette.
'Wait Wait' for June 7. 2025: With Not My Job guest Jeff Gordon
This week, Wait Wait is live in Chicago with host Peter Sagal, special guest Jeff Gordon and panelists Zach Zimmerman, Negin Farsad, and Adam Burke
4 takeaways from Erin Patterson's testimony at her toxic mushroom triple murder trial
Patterson is accused of putting death cap mushrooms in a meal she served her estranged husband's relatives in July 2023, killing three. She took the stand in Week 6 of the trial gripping Australia.
'Doctor Who' is about possibility. Ncuti Gatwa's role embodied that
Until recently, the long-running British show was too often content with iteration. Actor Ncuti Gatwa brought an unapologetic queerness to the character of the Doctor.
A baklava crawl in the Turkish city that's obsessed with the pastry
Here's how the Turkish city of Gaziantep became synonymous with baklava, the sweet pastry made of layers of phyllo dough, filled with nuts and soaked in syrup or honey.
WorldPride caps off its first D.C. celebration with a weekend parade
The global LGBTQ+ festival was held for the first time in the nation's capital. Organizers say the current political environment has dampened the excitement surrounding the celebration.
'The Spinach King' is a tale of American success--and family betrayal
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with John Seabrook about his book The Spinach King: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty, which tells the story of his family's frozen vegetable empire.
Sea turtle Dilly Dally released into the ocean with three flippers after undergoing amputation
Dilly Dally, a loggerhead turtle who survived a run-in with a predator that ultimately cost her a flipper, has been rereleased into the wild.
On Japanese Breakfast's melancholic record, Michelle Zauner might be 'the happiest' she's ever been
Zauner joins us to talk about some of the themes behind For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women).