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News Articles: Arts & Life

<em></em>Explore hundreds of planets, battle pirates, and make a galactic name for yourself in Starfield.

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  • Video Game Reviews

Bethesda's Starfield is a fabulous playable space opera with a forgettable story

In the massively-anticipated game Starfield, space exploration is its own reward. Good thing too, because the slow storyline isn't the star of the show.

September 02, 2023
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By:
  • Swapna Krishna

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  • Games & Humor

'Wait Wait' for September 2, 2023: Live in Michigan with Bob Seger

We're live from Ann Arbor, Mich., this week with local legend Bob Seger. He worked on his night moves, but can he answer our questions about knight moves?

September 02, 2023
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By:
  • GPB Newsroom
The idea that boundless customization is the way of the future misunderstands the relationship between creator and audience and the negotiation that goes on between the two. Above, Laura Marano as Cami and Jordi Webber as Jack in <em>Choose Love</em>.

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  • TV Reviews

This romcom lets you pick the ending — that doesn't make it good

Turns out multiple choice options work better for SATs than for storytelling. Netflix's Choose Love makes the case against AI writing — ordering a movie like a pizza doesn't make for good movies.

September 02, 2023
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By:
  • Linda Holmes
GPB  NPR

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  • Author Interviews

'Yellowface' explores cultural appropriation in publishing via an unlikeable narrator

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with author R.F. Kuang on her novel Yellowface and why she wanted to write a book about cultural appropriation in the publishing world.

September 01, 2023
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By:
  • Mary Louise Kelly,
  • Elena Burnett,
  • and 2 more
A rare painting by N.C. Wyeth was purchased for $4 at a thrift shop in 2017. Now it may fetch up to $250,000 at auction.

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  • Arts & Life

Rare painting bought for $4 at a thrift store may fetch a quarter million at auction

A $4 thrift store purchase turned out to be a rare painting by American artist N.C. Wyeth.

September 01, 2023
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By:
  • Elizabeth Blair
Sam Lipman-Stern in the HBO docuseries <em>Telemarketers.</em>

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  • Pop Culture

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

Each week, guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: the Telemarketers docuseries, Celebrity Book Club and the novel Once More with Feeling.

September 01, 2023
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By:
  • Ronald Young Jr,
  • Kristen Meinzer,
  • and 1 more
Everyone can be an elephant in Super Mario Bros. Wonder.

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  • Series: Join The Game

'Super Mario Bros. Wonder' makers explain new gameplay — and the elephant in the room

Nintendo's first new side-scrolling Mario game in a decade features Dark Souls-style phantoms, trippy flowers, and a pachyderm power-up that had the internet trumpeting.

September 01, 2023
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By:
  • James Perkins Mastromarino and
  • Alex Cheng
An NPR review of news photographs shows that there's been a dramatic change in President Joe Biden doing ... what?

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  • National

What has Biden started doing differently? Test yourself in this week's news quiz

From Simone Biles to Joe Biden, there were backflips and small steps taken in the news this week. Were you paying attention?

September 01, 2023
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By:
  • Holly J. Morris
GPB  NPR

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  • Movies

From stage to screen: A concert film of Taylor Swift's Eras Tour heads to theaters

Swift's tour has bolstered economies and crashed the Ticketmaster website. AMC said it has increased its online ticket server by more than five times its normal capacity to accommodate for the demand.

August 31, 2023
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By:
  • Ayana Archie
GPB  NPR

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  • Author Interviews

Novel 'The Covenant of Water' tells of a family in India haunted by a medical mystery

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with the author Abraham Verghese about his new novel The Covenant of Water in which a family in India is haunted by a medical mystery.

August 31, 2023
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By:
  • Lee Hale,
  • Ari Shapiro,
  • and 1 more
The late night heavyweights are putting their power into a new podcast, sharing this image on the Instagram page for the show.

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  • Television

Late night TV hosts team up for a new podcast amid the writers' strike

The biggest names in late night have turned their private group chat into a Spotify podcast. All the proceeds will go to support their staff during the writers' strike.

August 31, 2023
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By:
  • Andrew Limbong
2023 Kirkus Prize finalist Jesmyn Ward, pictured at the 2017 National Book Awards in New York City.

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  • Books

Kirkus Prize names Jesmyn Ward, Héctor Tobar among finalists for top literary award

Finalists for a leading annual literary award were announced Wednesday. The Kirkus Prize awards $50,000 to writers working in the categories of Fiction, Nonfiction, and Young Readers' Literature.

August 30, 2023
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By:
  • Neda Ulaby
Juan Lastra unabashedly stood up, sang and <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@juanp_lastra/video/7272089604314975531">filmed himself</a> during one of Adele's concerts in Las Vegas. When security tried to get him to sit down, Adele told them to leave him alone.

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  • Arts & Life

Should you stand or sit at a concert? Adele fan ignites debate

When security told Juan Lastra to sit down, Adele told them to leave him alone. The incident sparked a debate about concert etiquette. Stand when others are sitting? Tell a fan to sit down?

August 30, 2023
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By:
  • Elizabeth Blair
GPB  NPR

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  • Music

How K-pop took over the world — as told by one fan who rode the wave

In a new podcast, Vivian Yoon dissects her personal stake in K-pop, and how her obscure childhood passion has evolved into a billion-dollar industry.

August 30, 2023
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By:
  • Manuela López Restrepo
GPB  NPR

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  • Health Care

Distrust undermined the U.S. pandemic response. Now it continues to erode health care

High levels of distrust undermined the country's pandemic response and possibly caused half a million deaths. Distrust continues to erode health care, diminish access and give old diseases a chance.

August 29, 2023
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By:
  • Frank Morris
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