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These Life Kit tips will surprise you. We promise!

10:57am July 30, 2024

by Life Kit

A roundup of top tips from Life Kit's July episodes. They include advice on how to deal with a cheating partner, how much sunscreen to wear on your face, and how to split the tab when everyone's ordered a cocktail — except you.

Tune in to a mini-concert with MRCY

10:36am July 30, 2024

by Stephen Kallao

The South London band delivered a soul-stirring performance in Philadelphia.

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2024 Comic-Con International: San Diego - Marvel Studios Panel

A puzzling match made in the Marvel Cinematic Universe: Robert Downey Jr. as Dr. Doom

10:01am July 30, 2024

by Glen Weldon

The one-time Tony Stark will soon play Marvel Comics villain Doctor Doom. The news has our pop culture critic asking: Can you imagine Robert Downey Jr. saying these Doctor Doom lines?

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This year’s longlist for the Booker Prize is here

9:01am July 30, 2024

by Andrew Limbong

Longtime writers Claire Messud, Percival Everett, and Richard Powers join along with 3 debut novelists.

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Arts

Blindsided by 'The Most': This is a superb novel of a marriage at its breakpoint

9:00am July 30, 2024

by Heller McAlpin

The story takes place in Newark, over the course of a single day in 1957, which we experience from the two spouses' alternating points of view. Jessica Anthony's novel deserves to become a classic.

Arts

Why don't you see more James Baldwin works on the big screen?

9:00am July 30, 2024

by Bob Mondello

Baldwin was arguably the most evocative Black writer of his generation. But if you know him from film, it is for just one movie, If Beale Street Could Talk, released more than 30 years after his death.

We're talking songs of the (Brat) summer

3:00am July 30, 2024

Trying to declare the "official" song of the summer isn't a new sport. But this year feels like the first in a while where the field's been so crowded from the domination of pop girls like Charli XCX, Sabrina Carpenter, and Chappell Roan to country twang with Post Malone, Morgan Wallen, and Shaboozey. Today, we discussing the songs and artists who seem to be everywhere this summer, and why they are so catchy and inescapable.

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Erica Ash, ‘Survivor’s Remorse’ and ‘Real Husbands of Hollywood’ Actor, dies at 46

7:51pm July 29, 2024

by Elizabeth Blair

Actor and comedian Erica Ash has died at age 46. She was best known for MADtv, the sitcom Survivor's Remorse and The Big Gay Sketch Show.

Arts

The story of love pulled apart by slavery is being told though dance

5:56pm July 29, 2024

by Kristen Cabrera

The legacy of the emancipation of Jim and Winnie Shankle spans generations. The true love story among former slaves is shared in a dance performance in the Texas town the couple founded in 1867.

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Toumani Diabaté plucked the kora's 21 strings. The world fell in love with his music

5:17pm July 29, 2024

by Aaron Cohen

The musician died this month at age 58. His collaborators are paying tribute to "a great artist who belongs to the world.”