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News Articles: Arts & Life

Sixteen-time champion Joey Chestnut poses after his 2021 Nathan's Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog-Eating Contest victory on Coney Island. He returns to the stage this summer after being banned last year.

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  • National

Joey Chestnut will return to the Coney Island hot dog contest after last year's beef

Joey Chestnut was banned from the contest that made him famous after signing an endorsement deal with a company that makes plant-based proteins. The 16-time champ returns to Coney Island on July 4th.

June 17, 2025
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  • Rachel Treisman

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  • Book Reviews

New books out this week offer catastrophes that at least profess to be just fantasies

The new books publishing this week may get quite heavy, laden as they are with family tragedy, psychopathy and heartbreak — but at least they are fiction.

June 17, 2025
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By:
  • Colin Dwyer

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  • Your Money

10 ways travel insiders deal with annoying flight delays

Clever advice on how to quickly rebook your flight, skip long lines and avoid flight issues in the future. One tip? Try queuing up for an agent in the airport lounge.

June 17, 2025
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By:
  • Amelia Edelman

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  • Games & Humor

Sunday Puzzle: Name two, start with three

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with KPCC listener Jerry Tsai and Weekend Edition Puzzlemaster Will Shortz.

June 15, 2025
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  • Will Shortz

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  • Health

Advice for trying GLP-1 drugs for weight loss from a doctor who's been there

Former FDA chief Dr. David Kessler says the new weight-loss drugs are a powerful tool to fight obesity. But they come with pitfalls. Here's his tips for how to use them successfully.

June 15, 2025
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By:
  • Andrea Muraskin
Top Chef contestant and restaurant owner Shuai Wang at his restaurant King BBQ in North Charleston, S.C.

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  • Food

Top Chef finalist Shuai Wang cooks Chinatown BBQ with a Lowcountry flair

Shuai Wang thought he'd peaked before competing on Top Chef. But over a plate of food at King BBQ, the chef tells NPR's Debbie Elliott he now knows his career is just getting started.

June 14, 2025
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  • Debbie Elliott,
  • Samantha Balaban,
  • and 1 more
Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, SC on June 2, 2025.

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  • Books

10 years after the deadly church shooting, a new history of 'Mother Emanuel'

Reporter Kevin Sack's new book is a history of Charleston's Emanuel AME Church, the oldest Black congregation in the South, where a white supremacist killed nine worshippers a decade ago.

June 14, 2025
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By:
  • Debbie Elliott,
  • Andrew Craig,
  • and 1 more
Chris Perfetti attends as BBC Studios Los Angeles Productions celebrates 27 Emmy nominations at the BAFTA TV Tea Party at The Maybourne Beverly Hills on September 14, 2024 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images for BBC Studios)

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  • Arts & Life

'Wait Wait' for June 14, 2025: With Not My Job guest Chris Perfetti

This week, Wait Wait is live in Chicago with guest host Negin Farsad, special guest Chris Perfetti and panelists Joyelle Nicole Johnson, Alonzo Bodden, and Luke Burbank

June 14, 2025
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  • GPB Newsroom

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  • Movie Reviews

We're all going to die. What now? 'The Life of Chuck' sits with this question

Tom Hiddleston stars in the new adaptation of Stephen King's novella — which is somehow a very sweet film about the inevitable approach of death.

June 14, 2025
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By:
  • Linda Holmes
Stick your tongue out if you were ranked by <em>Billboard</em> as the 45th top artist of the 2010s!

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  • Arts & Life

What if being Mr. 305 was a state of mind?

Pitbull fans are honoring him the only way they know how: partying till dawn in bald caps and fake goatees.

June 14, 2025
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By:
  • Manuela López Restrepo,
  • Mia Venkat,
  • and 1 more
Resident Evil Requiem generated a lot of hype from its reveal trailer. But it was hardly the most interesting game at this year's Play Days showcase.

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  • Series: Join The Game

I played the new Resident Evil — and a whole lot more. Here are my thoughts

The annual Play Days showcase was far more interesting than the reveals themselves.

June 14, 2025
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By:
  • Vincent Acovino
Album cover for <em>Drinking In Here</em>, a new collection of traditional drinking songs from the Lomax Archive.

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  • History

These catchy old songs aren't as think as you drunk they are

People are drinking less these days, but drinking songs never go out of style. The Lomax Archive is dropping a new album of traditional songs this week.

June 13, 2025
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By:
  • Chloe Veltman
What makes "buy now, pay later" so attractive?

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  • Arts & Life

'Buy now, pay later:' a replacement for the millennial lifestyle subsidy?

The cheap convenience of the "millennial lifestyle subsidy" has gone - does "buy now, pay later" fill in the gaps?

June 13, 2025
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By:
  • Liam McBain and
  • Alexis Williams
Lucy (Dakota Johnson) and Harry (Pedro Pascal) in <em>Materialists</em>.

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  • Movie Reviews

The math in Celine Song's 'Materialists' doesn't add up

The characters in the romantic comedy Materialists, Celine Song's follow-up to Past Lives, see the dating pool in terms of the "market" – people are evaluated by how "competitive" they are and marriage is treated like an equation to be solved.

June 13, 2025
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By:
  • Aisha Harris
From left: Cole Escola, Khaby Lame, Justin Baldoni.

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  • National

Did Trump get cheers or jeers at 'Les Mis'? Find out in the quiz

This week brought the celebrity-starved quiz a cornucopia of fun. Were you paying attention?

June 13, 2025
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  • Holly J. Morris
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