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Roy Wood Jr. on "The Daily Show with Trevor Noah" LIVE one-hour “Democalypse 2016” Election Night special on November 8, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by Jason Kempin/Getty Images for Comedy Central)

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  • Arts & Life

'Wait Wait' for March 1, 2025: With Not My Job guest Roy Wood, Jr.

This week, Wait Wait is live in Chicago with host Peter Sagal, special guest Roy Wood, Jr. and panelists Tom Bodett, Helen Hong, and Paula Poundstone

March 01, 2025
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Conan O'Brien (left) attends the 97th Annual Oscars carpet roll out at Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Calif. O'Brien will be hosting the 97th Academy Awards on Sunday night.

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  • Movies

How to watch the Oscars on Sunday night

The 97th Academy Awards will air on ABC and stream on Hulu at 7 p.m. ET. Comedian and actor Conan O'Brien is hosting and Wicked stars Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo will perform.

March 01, 2025
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  • Dhanika Pineda
We want to hear from you.

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  • Arts & Life

It's the 5th anniversary of the COVID pandemic and we want to hear your experiences

It's been 5 years since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. Ahead of this anniversary, NPR wants to hear from you.

February 28, 2025
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Actor Gene Hackman and wife Betsy Arakawa, in Los Angeles, Calif., in 1986.

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  • Arts & Life

Gene Hackman's pacemaker activity suggests he died several days before he was found

Hackman's pacemaker was last active on Feb. 17, according to the Santa Fe County Sheriff Adan Mendoza. He said Friday it is "a very good assumption" that was his death date.

February 28, 2025
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  • Juliana Kim and
  • Ayana Archie
Rhiannon Giddens performs at "A New York Evening With Rhiannon Giddens" at the National Sawdust in New York City on Aug. 17, 2023.

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  • Music

Rhiannon Giddens is the latest artist to cancel Kennedy Center gig

Folk musician Rhiannon Giddens said on social media that she has moved her May concert — originally scheduled for the Kennedy Center — to a different venue in Washington, D.C.

February 28, 2025
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  • Elizabeth Blair
Thornetta Davis, 61, also known as "Detroit's Queen of Blues" performed as Bessie Smith for "Sky Covington's Satin Doll Revue" produced by jazz vocalist and Preservation of Jazz founder Sky Covington celebrating iconic sounds of jazz at Aretha's Jazz Cafe in Detroit, Mich. on Feb. 24, 2025.

"I've had people tell me I've lifted their spirits when they weren't feeling right," Davis said. "That's what I'm here to do and pass on the legacy, too."

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  • Race

Detroit closes out Black History Month by honoring iconic legends of jazz and blues

The iconic voices of female jazz & blues legends Billie Holiday, Phyllis Hyman, Nancy Wilson and Bessie Smith were honored at Aretha's Jazz Café in Detroit for Black History Month

February 28, 2025
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  • Sylvia Jarrus
A slate-gray cat hops aboard a sailboat in an effort to avoid a great flood in <em>Flow</em>.

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  • Movie Reviews

Animals are swept up in the 'Flow' of this Oscar-nominated flood film

When the flood waters rise, a band of animals takes shelter on a boat, where they have to work together to survive. Flow is a radiant fantasy, where solidarity, not selfishness, can save the day.

February 28, 2025
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  • John Powers
A scene from the Oscar-nominated animated film <em>Flow.</em>

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  • Pop Culture

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

Each week, guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: The film Flow, a Pete Seeger album, Deal or No Deal Island, and the documentary Sly Lives!

February 28, 2025
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  • Glen Weldon,
  • Aisha Harris,
  • and 2 more
Defy expectations with this massive bowl of plain mashed potatoes to represent <em>Wicked</em>.

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  • Movies

Hosting an Oscars party? Here are menu ideas for each best picture nominee

If you're having friends over to watch Hollywood's biggest night, we've got 10 recipes that will at least work on a conceptual level.

February 28, 2025
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  • Glen Weldon
The 97th Academy Awards ceremony will take place Sunday, March 2. Above, Oscar statues are pictured ahead of the awards in 2022.

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  • Movies

What should win vs. what will win — here are our Oscars predictions

There are 10 movies in the running for best picture. Our critics are split over whether Anora or Nickel Boys should take home the prize.

February 28, 2025
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  • Aisha Harris,
  • Linda Holmes,
  • and 2 more
Reigning chess world champion Boris Spassky, left, of Russia, and international grandmaster Bobby Fischer of the United States, are seen during a game at the XIX World Chess Olympiad in Siegen, Germany, Sept. 20, 1970.

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  • World

Boris Spassky, Soviet chess champion who lost to Bobby Fischer, dies at 88

A televised 1972 match between Spassky and Fischer, at the height of the Cold War, became an international sensation and was known as the "Match of the Century."

February 28, 2025
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Actor Gene Hackman arrives with his wife, Betsy Arakawa, for the 60th Annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, Calif., Sunday, Jan. 19, 2003. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File)

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  • Arts & Life

No signs of forced entry or a carbon monoxide leak in Gene Hackman's death

Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, were found dead inside a New Mexico home, as well as a dog. The door to the home was open when a maintenance worker discovered their bodies, an affidavit says.

February 28, 2025
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  • Ayana Archie
Belinda (Natasha Rothwell) travels to Thailand in Season 3 of <em>The White Lotus.</em><br>

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  • Television

Natasha Rothwell on checking into 'The White Lotus' Thailand: 'It felt like home'

In the new season of The White Lotus, Rothwell reprises her role of spa manager Belinda, a woman "on the precipice of change" as she straddles the line between guest and staffer.

February 27, 2025
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  • Tonya Mosley
Katy Perry performs during the Super Bowl halftime show at University of Phoenix Stadium on Feb. 1, 2015, in Glendale, Ariz. Now she'll be in space but for real this time.

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  • Space

Katy Perry and Gayle King are heading to space as part of an all-female Blue Origin crew

The crew was selected by Bezos' fiancée, journalist Lauren Sánchez, who will also be on the brief suborbital flight scheduled for this spring.

February 27, 2025
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  • Manuela López Restrepo
"It's always more fun to play heavy than it is to play a good guy," Gene Hackman told <em>Fresh Air</em>'s Terry Gross.

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  • Obituaries

Gene Hackman, who thrived playing the tough guy, dies at 95

Hackman epitomized a 1970s, edgy, tightly wound masculinity. He appeared in more than 100 movies and TV shows, and won Oscars for his performances in The French Connection and Unforgiven.

February 27, 2025
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  • Neda Ulaby
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