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Podcast tile art for Landslide, from WFAE; Lost Notes, from KCRW; ¡Vamos Verde!, from KUT; Unsettled, from Iowa Public Radio; Beyond All Repair, from WBUR; Embedded, from NPR.

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From the 1976 political earthquake to Wisconsin birders, check out these new podcasts

12:28pm March 15, 2024

Make spring cleaning a little easier this month with a new podcast. The NPR One Team has recommendations from across the NPR Network to get you started.

Aren (Justice Smith) and Roger (David Alan Grier) in The American Society of Magical Negroes.

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'The American Society of Magical Negroes': You don't wanna join this club

12:26pm March 15, 2024

by Aisha Harris

The film is convinced Black people on screen and in real life are, by and large, contending with the same stereotypes and barriers that we were 20 years ago.

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In 'The Manicurist's Daughter,' a refugee family goes on after its matriarch's death

12:11pm March 15, 2024

by Thúy Đinh

Author Susan Lieu transforms her acclaimed 2019 one-woman show — 140 LBS: How Beauty Killed My Mother -- into a memoir of her family after the death of her mother due to botched plastic surgery.

A screenshot from Nvidia and Convai's recent demonstration video of AI in video games.

'Games made by soulless machines': Tech sparks debate over AI stories in video games

11:58am March 15, 2024

Is the future of artificial intelligence in video games playing out in a cyberpunk ramen bar? Tech companies would like you to think so, but game writers aren't so sure.

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Author Percival Everett photographed in Pasadena, Calif., on Oct. 28, 2022.

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Percival Everett gives Mark Twain's classic story about Huck a new voice in 'James'

11:14am March 15, 2024

by Andrew Limbong

Prolific writer Percival Everett often skewers different corners of American society. His latest novel James is written from the point of view of the character Jim, from Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn.

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This week's quiz has no shady edits (unlike a certain royal photo)

9:30am March 15, 2024

by Holly J. Morris

This week brought us an utterly predictable presidential deathmatch and reminded us to not stare directly at the sun. But there were also some surprises. Were you paying attention?

Just because your favorite singer is dead doesn't mean you can't see them 'live'

8:19am March 15, 2024

by Chloe Veltman

The upcoming immersive "Elvis Evolution" experience in London employs everything from cutting edge AI to a 200-year-old magic trick.

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Whitney Biennial, a showcase of American contemporary arts, is returning to NYC

5:17am March 15, 2024

by Jennifer Vanasco

This year, the longest-running — and one of the most important — regular showcases of American art is not a survey, but a conversation.

Melissa Benoist plays reporter Sadie McCarthy in The Girls on the Bus.

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'The Girls on the Bus' was written by a political journalist who's been there

6:51pm March 14, 2024

by Eric Deggans

Amy Chozick is an executive producer and co-creator of a new Max series about four female political journalists. Chozick covered Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign for The New York Times.

San Francisco Symphony music director Esa-Pekka Salonen resigns

6:42pm March 14, 2024

by Chloe Veltman

Citing creative differences with the orchestra's board, the famed Finnish conductor and composer plans to leave when his contract expires at the end of the 2025 season.