• Your favorite celebrity could be playing your least favorite tech villain on TV

    Updated: 2022-01-31 12:00:56
    There's a lot that unites these projects: high-profile stars playing people who fell from grace. Specifically, people who shared the trait of having been being ambitious when it came to money.

  • What's making us happy: A guide for your weekend reading, viewing and gaming

    Updated: 2022-01-28 22:00:27
    Each week, the guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: True Story With Ed & Randall, a web-based game that isn't Wordle, and more.

  • Trickle-Down Economy

    Updated: 2022-01-28 16:31:06
    I love our trickle-down economy. Meaning, in our economy good things start at the top and trickle down to the bottom surprisingly fast. But before going any further, we have to talk about “trickle down theory” which is quite a different animal. From time to time, proponents of cuts in tax rates argue that that … Continue reading "Trickle-Down Economy"

  • On 'The Afterparty,' a high school reunion really can kill you

    Updated: 2022-01-28 10:00:32
    The Apple TV+ show might not be as riotous as its roster of comedy stars would suggest, but it's an entertaining murder mystery.

  • Your Wordle strategy says a lot about how you see the world

    Updated: 2022-01-24 12:00:47
    It did not take long for me to conclude that Wordle is a metaphor for life, meaning that you can learn a lot about different ways to see the world from different ways to play Wordle.

  • 'And Just Like That... ' has a Diversity Girlfriend problem

    Updated: 2022-01-22 10:00:17
    The revival seems more concerned with apologizing for Sex and the City's transgressions than engaging with the present in any meaningful way.

  • What's making us happy: A guide for your weekend reading and viewing

    Updated: 2022-01-21 22:01:06
    Each week, the guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: the Netflix show Twentysomethings: Austin, a look back at 20 years of The Onion and more.

  • With 'The Legend of Vox Machina,' a Dungeons & Dragons web series rolls the dice

    Updated: 2022-01-21 05:02:00
    Just the Vox, ma'am: This animated fantasy series loses some of what makes the web series it's based on so richly rewarding, but those coming in fresh will get caught up in its characters and story.

  • Five questions that need answers in the final 'Ozark' season

    Updated: 2022-01-20 21:42:44
    Netflix's popular crime series is about to drop the first half of its last season. We look at five questions that hang over these seven episodes, and the seven more that will follow.

  • 'The Gilded Age' gives old New York money the HBO treatment

    Updated: 2022-01-20 14:30:27
    The new series The Gilded Age, from the creator of Downton Abbey, takes a big, talented cast to 1882 New York for a story about money and class.

  • 'How I Met Your Father' tries to learn from a 'Mother' of mistakes

    Updated: 2022-01-18 05:30:06
    Years after the How I Met Your Mother finale left us with bad feelings, How I Met Your Father is premiering on Hulu. The concept is similar, but the chemistry and quirkiness may be hard to duplicate.

  • Your 'Yellowjackets' finale questions, answered

    Updated: 2022-01-17 04:02:00
    In the season finale of Showtime's Yellowjackets, some of the mysteries of what really happened to the team in 1996 got some resolution. Some didn't. We're here to sort it out.

  • What's making us happy: A guide for your weekend reading and viewing

    Updated: 2022-01-14 22:00:11
    Each week, the guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: a quirky Instagram account, the NBC show Grand Crew and more.

  • HBO's 'Somebody Somewhere' sings sweetly and sincerely, albeit with its inside voice

    Updated: 2022-01-14 12:01:06
    The electrifying performer Bridget Everett opts for a lower voltage in this gentle, semi-autobiographical tale of a Kansan woman struggling to overcome grief and find her voice again.

  • How Ronnie Spector and 'Be My Baby' became a pop-culture sound of sex in 1987

    Updated: 2022-01-13 16:40:01
    Twice in the same year, the song "Be My Baby" — featuring the voice of Ronnie Spector, who died this week — became the sound that signaled something memorably, indelibly sexy.

  • The (not-so) secret second life of your Amazon returns

    Updated: 2022-01-12 11:00:36
    People order pallets of online returns, knowing either something or next to nothing about what they're getting, and then they open the pallets for the benefit of YouTube viewers.

  • U.S Capitol Riot ABC News ABC News

    Updated: 2022-01-05 01:58:57
    . ABC News Video Live Shows Coronavirus Jan . 6 Riot Interest Successfully Added We 27 ll notify you here with news about Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest Off On U.S . Capitol Attack The timeline of events and investigations around the U.S . Capitol attack on January 6, 2021 Cops 27 role in Jan . 6 attack divides town with ties to Confederacy Jan 04 ABC NEWS By the numbers : How the Jan . 6 investigation is shaping up 1 year later Jan 04 Brent Stirton Getty Images , FILE Latest January 6 video Latest January 6 video 2:07 Homeland Security warns of 27 lone wolf threat 27 ahead of Jan . 6 anniversary 8:49 Capitol insurrection : 27 It felt like a warzone 27 7:35 Capitol Police chief on Jan . 6 attack anniversary 7:29 One year later , Virginia town divided over

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