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News Articles: Arts & Life

All that remains of a property on Sunset Boulevard in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, in a photo taken Friday, Jan. 10.

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  • Arts & Life

Fires in Los Angeles delay Oscar nominations once more

Oscar nominations had already been delayed once due to the fires raging in Los Angeles. The ceremony itself remains scheduled for early March.

January 13, 2025
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  • Mandalit del Barco
Roy Wood Jr.'s new comedy special is <em>Lonely Flowers.</em>

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  • Television

Comedy is journalism, says Roy Wood Jr., from 'The Daily Show' to CNN

A good comedian has to "know what regular people are going through," he says. In his new Hulu special, Lonely Flowers, Wood riffs on how isolation has sent society spiraling.

January 13, 2025
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  • Tonya Mosley
Party City plans to permanently close in February.

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  • Business

Party City is closing. Share your special memory with NPR

What would you say in a eulogy for Party City? Have you shopped at Party City for memorable costumes, decorations, party favors or classroom awards? NPR wants to hear.

January 13, 2025
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  • Alina Selyukh
Members of the Republican caucus stood on the House floor on the final day of the 2024 legislative session in Minnesota. The Legislature ran right up to its midnight deadline on May 19, with a shouting fest.

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  • National

In a bitter fight for the Minnesota Legislature, Democrats have threatened a walkout

A series of unexpected events after the narrow election has set up a power struggle in the Minnesota Legislature. Days before the legislative session kicks off, it's unclear who will take control.

January 13, 2025
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  • Dana Ferguson
Clockwise from the top-left: Grand Theft Auto 6, Assassin's Creed Shadows, Split Fiction, Metroid Prime 4: Beyond.

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  • Series: Join The Game

Our 25 most-anticipated games of 2025 including Grand Theft Auto 6 (maybe)

Will GTA6 actually come out this year? Is a new Nintendo console coming? Huge games are creeping on the horizon, including a high-stakes Assassin's Creed title and Metroid Prime 4: Beyond.

January 13, 2025
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  • James Perkins Mastromarino
Sunday Puzzle

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  • Games & Humor

Sunday Puzzle: Familiar three-word phrases

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with Weekend Edition puzzle master Will Shortz and Chris House of Annandale, Virginia.

January 12, 2025
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  • Will Shortz
Kate Bowler

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  • Arts & Life

Kate Bowler wants to have more 'uncounted, completely-wasted, doesn't-matter time'

On Wild Card this week, Kate Bowler opens up about how she wants to waste her time, her feelings about God and how she talks about death with her child.

January 12, 2025
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  • Rachel Martin
Boar's Head meats are displayed at a Safeway store on July 31, 2024 in San Rafael, Calif. The USDA released a new report on what led to the listeria outbreak.

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  • Food

USDA report finds Boar's Head listeria outbreak was due to poor sanitation practices

A report released by the Department of Agriculture found that poor sanitation practices at a Boar's Head facility in Virginia contributed to the largest listeria outbreak since 2011. 

January 11, 2025
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  • Clare Marie Schneider
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - JANUARY 14: Josh Gad attends the premiere of HBO's "Avenue 5"  at Avalon Theater on January 14, 2020 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images)

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  • Arts & Life

'Wait Wait' for January 11, 2025: With Not My Job guest Josh Gad

This week, Wait Wait is live in Chicago with special guest Melissa Josh Gad and panelists Negin Farsad, Rachel Coster, and Josh Gondelman

January 11, 2025
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A firefighting helicopter flies above the Hollywood sign on Wednesday, Jan. 8.

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  • Arts & Life

As fires in Los Angeles rage, an already-hurting Hollywood presses pause

The fires around Los Angeles arrived just as Hollywood's awards season kicked off. It's an ominous sign at a time when film and TV production is already down.

January 11, 2025
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  • Mandalit del Barco
The beavers in the ultra-low-budget comedy <em>Hundreds of Beavers </em>are all played by humans in mascot costumes and it is very, very silly.

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  • Movie Reviews

8 off-the-beaten path movies you can stream right now

Check out the big Oscar contenders all you want, but 2024 was also a solid year for movies that didn't have big names, big studios and big marketing departments behind them.

January 11, 2025
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  • Glen Weldon
Gerardo "Jerry" Diaz, a fourth-generation charros from New Braunfels, Texas, performs at the National Western Stock Show and Rodeo on Jan. 8, 2023.

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  • National

A look at how one family keeps traditions alive at a rodeo extravaganza in Colorado

The 30th anniversary of the Mexican Rodeo Extravaganza at the National Western Stock Show is a celebration of pageantry and cultural heritage.

January 11, 2025
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  • Amanda Lopez and
  • Virginia Lozano
Singer Sam Moore performs during the Memphis Music Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony at the Cannon Center on October 17, 2015 in Memphis, Tennessee.

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  • Obituaries

Sam Moore, who sang 'Soul Man' in Sam & Dave duo, dies at 89

Moore, the surviving half and higher voice of the 1960s duo Sam & Dave, died Friday morning in Coral Gables, Florida, due to complications while recovering from surgery, his publicist said.

January 11, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
Brooke Shields at the New York City Ballet in October 2024. Her new book, <em>Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old, </em>is out Jan. 14, 2025.

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  • Books

In a new book, Brooke Shields opens up about a non-consensual, intimate surgery

In Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old the actor discusses female aging and agency, and waking up from a surgery to learn the doctor made changes to her body that were unapproved.

January 10, 2025
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  • Dhanika Pineda
Lauren Gruel, pictured at right, celebrates having filled another truck bed with community-donated supplies on Thursday. She and her husband Andrew turned their Huntington Beach restaurant into a donation hub to support wildfire victims in Los Angeles.

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  • National

A small seafood restaurant turns into a national donation hub for LA fire victims

In response to the devastating fires raging in LA, a small restaurant in Surf City USA has become a channel for big help — from locals to people across the country — to support their neighbors up north.

January 10, 2025
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  • Emma Bowman
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