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News Articles: Arts & Life

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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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
Demi Moore won her first major acting award Sunday night at the 82nd Golden Globes award ceremony. Moore won the award for Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy award for <em>The Substance.</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: Demi Moore's Golden Globes win, Funny Story by Emily Henry, the film Hard Truths, and more.

January 10, 2025
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  • Cate Young,
  • Brittany Luse,
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  • Book Reviews

12 eye-opening reads to kick-start your 2025 reading goals

There are so many great books to look forward to in 2025. But first, you'll want to catch up on these perspective-shifting titles from 2024, exploring art, the afterlife, nuns, nuclear war — and more.

January 10, 2025
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  • Dhanika Pineda
Co-anchor and <em>Hoda & Jenna</em> co-host Hoda Kotb and will have her final appearance on the <em>Today </em>show on Friday. She's pictured above in November 2024.

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  • Television

After 17 years, it's Hoda Kotb's last 'Today' show

Craig Melvin, current news anchor and host of Today's 3rd Hour, has been named Kotb's successor.

January 10, 2025
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  • Eric Deggans
Actor Alec Baldwin is shown attending his trial for involuntary manslaughter for the 2021 fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during filming of the Western movie <em>Rust</em> on July 12, 2024, at Santa Fe County District Court in Santa Fe, N.M.

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  • Law

Alec Baldwin sues New Mexico officials over handling of 'Rust' shooting case

Actor Alec Baldwin has filed a civil lawsuit for malicious prosecution and civil rights violations in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer on the set of the Western movie Rust.

January 10, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
Charlie and Elana Essers.

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  • Arts & Life

A husband honors the 4 women who protected his injured wife from oncoming traffic

When Charlie Essers arrived at the scene of his wife's bike accident, he found four women shielding and soothing her until emergency crews could arrive.

January 09, 2025
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  • Autumn Barnes
Flames from the Palisades Fire burn a building on Sunset Boulevard amid a powerful windstorm on Wednesday in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles.

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  • Performing Arts

Billy Crystal, Paris Hilton, other celebrities share LA fire experiences, resources

The California wildfires are burning in the middle of what's usually a busy awards season in Hollywood, home to many celebrities.

January 09, 2025
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  • Andrew Limbong

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  • Books

We can't wait to read these 10 books hitting shelves soon

From the fictional story of a pregnant woman stuck in an IKEA during an earthquake, to in-depth reporting on Alzheimer's research, here are the books we're looking forward to in the next few months.

January 09, 2025
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  • Andrew Limbong
People evacuate on Sunset Boulevard from the Palisades Fire on Jan. 7, 2025 in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, Calif.

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  • Arts & Life

Here's where things stand for several major landmarks in the Los Angeles fires

The fires raging across Los Angeles are putting some cultural institutions in danger.

January 08, 2025
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  • Dhanika Pineda
Tilda Swinton plays a war correspondent who is dying of cancer in <em>The Room Next Door. </em>The film is based on the 2020 novel, <em>What Are You Going Through</em>, by Sigrid Nunez

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  • Movie Interviews

Tilda Swinton thinks about death and says you should, too

Swinton plays a woman dying of cancer in Pedro Almodóvar's The Room Next Door. "A life spent considering how we're going to spend our end is not wasted time," Swinton says.

January 08, 2025
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  • Terry Gross
Trina Sheridan, left, watches as her her daughters Molly and Edie sell cookies in Chicago in 2017, the 100th year of Girl Scout cookies.

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  • Food

Girl Scouts are retiring two cookie flavors (don't worry, your Thin Mints are safe)

2025 will be the last time you can buy Girl Scout S'mores and Toast-Yay! cookies. They join the ranks of many other discontinued flavors — RIP Mango Cremes with Nutrifusion and cheesy Golden Yangles.

January 08, 2025
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  • Neda Ulaby
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  • Health

'Don't be boring!' How to cope with the social pressure to drink during Dry January

What do you say to people when they ask you why you aren't drinking? How do you get your friends to hang out in places other than bars? We tackle the social conundrums of sober socializing.

January 08, 2025
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  • Malaka Gharib
Adam Scott stars as Mark in <em>Severance</em>. Season 2 begins on January 17, nearly three years after the first season.

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  • Television

There's great TV coming in January, from 'Severance' Season 2 to a Jerry Springer doc

There is a lot of TV on deck in the new year – including multiple medical dramas, a violent Netflix drama about Utah settlers in the 1850s, plus, cop shows, Westerns and documentaries.

January 07, 2025
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  • Eric Deggans
Nicole Kidman plays the CEO of a high-tech shipping company, and Harris Dickinson is her intern, in <em>Babygirl</em>.

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  • Movie Reviews

She's his boss at work, he's her boss in bed in the unsatisfying 'Babygirl'

Nicole Kidman plays a high-flying, married businesswoman who begins an affair with an intern half her age. It's a lead performance more daring than the film itself.

January 07, 2025
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  • John Powers
Author Zora Neale Hurston sits for a portrait.

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  • Books

How Zora Neale Hurston's posthumous novel was rescued from a fire and published

Nearly lost in a fire, Zora Neale Hurston's final novel, 'The Life of Herod the Great,' is out more than 60 years after her death. The novel expands on her interest in the ancient king of Judea.

January 07, 2025
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  • Adriana Gallardo
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