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One Woman Takes A 'Wayward' Approach To Menopause In This Smart New Novel

Messy and floundering in late midlife, Dana Spiotta's heroine is roiling — along with the rest of the country — amid the 2016 election and the rise of the #MeToo and Black Lives Matter movements.

July 27, 2021
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  • Maureen Corrigan
Dr. Leana Wen is in favor of COVID-19 vaccine mandates. "I don't think that people should have the choice to infect others with a potentially fatal and extremely contagious virus," she says. Wen is pictured above in the emergency department at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston on Aug. 14, 2012.

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  • Health

Think Of Your COVID-19 Vaccine Like A Very Good Raincoat, Says Dr. Leana Wen

It protects from drizzles and thunderstorms but not a hurricane. In other words, if you are exposed again and again to infected people, there's some risk you could get sick.

July 27, 2021
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  • Terry Gross
The crowd at a 2011 concert at Central Park's Great Lawn.

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  • Music News

NYC 'Homecoming' Show Will Star Bruce Springsteen And More, But You Have To Be Vaxxed

The concert is being billed by New York City government as a reopening of the city — and most of the tickets will be free, but you can only get in if you provide proof of a COVID-19 vaccination.

July 27, 2021
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By:
  • Andrew Limbong
#FreeBritney activists outside of a Los Angeles court hearing regarding the Britney Spears conservatorship on July 14.

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  • Music News

Britney Spears' Lawyer Files To Have Her Father Removed From Controlling Her Finances

In a blistering 120-page document submitted to Los Angeles Superior Court, Mathew Rosengart claims that Jamie Spears appears to be responsible for the "dissipation" of the singer's fortune.

July 27, 2021
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By:
  • Anastasia Tsioulcas
#FreeBritney protesters gather outside the Stanley Mosk Courthouse in Los Angeles. Similar rallies have been taking place around the world in recent weeks.

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  • Arts & Life

They Were Laughed At For Their #FreeBritney Activism. Not Anymore

The #FreeBritney movement has spent years trying to draw attention to Britney Spears' fight against her conservatorship. Now, it's beginning to have a serious impact on guardianship law.

July 27, 2021
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By:
  • Andrew Limbong
Maya Hawke as Heather in<em> Fear Street Part 1: 1994.</em>

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  • Pop Culture

What's Making Us Happy: A Guide For Your Weekend Watching, Listening And Reading

Each week, the guests and hosts on Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. Today it's the Fear Street trilogy, Biz Markie's "Just a Friend," and Viet Thanh Nguyen's book, The Committed.

July 26, 2021
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  • Stephen Thompson,
  • Ayesha Rascoe,
  • and 1 more
Britney Spears' recently hired lawyer, Mathew Rosengart, speaking to reporters outside the Los Angeles County Courthouse on July 19.

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  • Music News

Britney Spears' Lawyer Files Request For New Conservator Of Her Money

Attorney Mathew Rosengart, who began representing the pop singer a week and a half ago, wants someone new to look after Spears' estate. For the past 13 years, it's been controlled by her father.

July 26, 2021
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  • Anastasia Tsioulcas
LeVar Burton, here in Los Angeles in 2016, told <em>The New York Times</em> that he feels like hosting <em>Jeopardy!</em> "is what I'm supposed to do." This week, he gets his turn at the host lectern left vacant by Alex Trebek, who died last year at age 80.

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  • Television

LeVar Burton Is A Fan Favorite To Host 'Jeopardy!' And It's Obvious Why

Credited by a generation of book nerds for shaping their identities on Reading Rainbow, LeVar Burton guest-hosts Jeopardy! this week after a campaign hyped by his large and enthusiastic fandom.

July 26, 2021
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  • Neda Ulaby
GPB News NPR

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  • Media

How Jad Abumrad, 'Radiolab' Creator And Co-Host, Got Hooked On Storytelling

Abumrad set out to compose film scores, but instead turned his focus to journalism. He has a new podcast miniseries called The Vanishing of Harry Pace.

July 26, 2021
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By:
  • Terry Gross
Gold medalist Lee Kiefer of the United States shows her medal and victory bouquet during the medal ceremony for the women's individual foil final competition on Sunday at the Summer Olympics.

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  • Asia

The Flowers For Olympic Medalists Carry Deep Meaning In Japan

The elements of the bouquet carry a deeper story, and they are years in the making. They're meant to symbolize the country rising from the devastating earthquake and tsunami in 2011.

July 26, 2021
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  • Merrit Kennedy

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  • Book Reviews

For July, 3 Romances Packed With Pulse-Pounding Peril

This month, romance columnist Maya Rodale brings us three tales of danger and mystery, political intrigues, airship pirates, angry Scotsmen, and of course, the essential ingredient: passion.

July 26, 2021
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  • Maya Rodale
GPB News NPR

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  • Arts & Life

Life Kit: How To Host A Dinner Party

While things aren't completely back to normal, many are starting to host parties again. We have some useful tips for those who might feel a little out of practice because of the pandemic.

July 25, 2021
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By:
  • Diba Mohtasham

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  • Book Reviews

New Graphic Novel 'Celestia' Wanders An Earth That's No Longer Home

Manuele Fior's latest, Celestia, is set on a far-future Earth, wracked by climate change — but the terrors of flood and fire stay under the surface of his dreamy, hazy, philosophical story.

July 25, 2021
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By:
  • Etelka Lehoczky
Lee Miller, <em>Self-Portrait with Headband</em> (variant), 1932 gelatin silver print, Lee Miller Studios Inc., New York

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  • Photography

Behind The Lens, These Women Created Photographs That Leap Over Decades

Two current museum exhibitions — The Woman Who Broke Boundaries at the Dali Museum and The New Woman Behind the Camera at the Metropolitan Museum of Art — celebrate women photographers.

July 25, 2021
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By:
  • Susan Stamberg

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  • Book Reviews

'What Strange Paradise' Focuses On The Human Stories At The Heart Of A Crisis

Omar El-Akkad's new novel is fully aware of the larger forces that lead people to migrate — but it leaves those aside, focusing instead on the smaller human stories at the core of the migrant crisis.

July 25, 2021
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  • Gabino Iglesias
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