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News Articles: Arts & Life

This 2002 electron microscope image from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a Listeria monocytogenes bacterium. Health officials have announced a recall of liverwurst and deli meat products in connection with a national listeria outbreak that has sickened nearly three dozen people in 13 states.

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  • Health

Boar's Head recalls 7 million more pounds of deli meats tied to listeria outbreak

The new recall includes 71 products made between May 10 and July 29 under the Boar's Head and Old Country brand names, following an earlier recall of 200,000 pounds of sliced deli poultry and meat.

July 31, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
 In a Google ad during the Olympics, a dad uses AI tool Gemini to write a letter from his daughter to star hurdler Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone.

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  • Television

The antithesis of the Olympics: Using AI to write a fan letter

In one of Google’s Olympics ads, a dad uses AI tool Gemini to craft a fan letter from his daughter to an Olympian. But it’s the wrong approach to express admiration in a star athlete – and to instill confidence in a burgeoning one.

July 31, 2024
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  • Linda Holmes
In addition to being a co-creator of the show <em>Hacks</em>, Paul W. Downs plays Jimmy, the manager of a both Deborah and Ava. The show's third season has been nominated for 16 Emmy Awards.

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  • Television

'Hacks' peeks behind the curtain of a changing comedy world

Paul W. Downs is a co-creator and co-star of the Emmy-nominated HBO Max series. "It's a comedy, but we also want to make a show that makes people think," he says.

July 30, 2024
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  • Ann Marie Baldonado
Musician Toumani Diabaté of Mali and his 21-string kora, photographed at WOMAD -- the World of Music, Arts and Dance festival held yearly in the United Kingdom. Diabaté died on July 19 at age 58.<br>

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  • Global Health

Toumani Diabaté plucked the kora's 21 strings. The world fell in love with his music

The musician died this month at age 58. His collaborators are paying tribute to "a great artist who belongs to the world.”

July 30, 2024
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  • Aaron Cohen
Robert Downey Jr. onstage at the Marvel Studios panel during Comic-Con in San Diego over the weekend.

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  • Movies

A puzzling match made in the Marvel Cinematic Universe: Robert Downey Jr. as Dr. Doom

The one-time Tony Stark will soon play Marvel Comics villain Doctor Doom. The news has our pop culture critic asking: Can you imagine Robert Downey Jr. saying these Doctor Doom lines?

July 30, 2024
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  • Glen Weldon
 Just a few of the titles longlisted for the Booker Prize this year.

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  • Books

This year’s longlist for the Booker Prize is here

Longtime writers Claire Messud, Percival Everett, and Richard Powers join along with 3 debut novelists.

July 30, 2024
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  • Andrew Limbong
GPB News NPR

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  • Book Reviews

Blindsided by 'The Most': This is a superb novel of a marriage at its breakpoint

The story takes place in Newark, over the course of a single day in 1957, which we experience from the two spouses' alternating points of view. Jessica Anthony's novel deserves to become a classic.

July 30, 2024
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  • Heller McAlpin
GPB News NPR

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  • Movies

Why don't you see more James Baldwin works on the big screen?

Baldwin was arguably the most evocative Black writer of his generation. But if you know him from film, it is for just one movie, If Beale Street Could Talk, released more than 30 years after his death.

July 30, 2024
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  • Bob Mondello
Erica Ash attends the HollyRod 2023 DesignCare Gala at The Beehive on July 15, 2023, in Los Angeles, Calif.

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  • Arts & Life

Erica Ash, ‘Survivor’s Remorse’ and ‘Real Husbands of Hollywood’ Actor, dies at 46

Actor and comedian Erica Ash has died at age 46. She was best known for MADtv, the sitcom Survivor's Remorse and The Big Gay Sketch Show.

July 29, 2024
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  • Elizabeth Blair
 Prince on the custom motorcycle featured in <em>Purple Rain.</em>

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  • Movies

40 years after 'Purple Rain,' Prince’s band remembers how the movie came together

Before social media, the film Purple Rain gave audiences a peek into Prince’s musical life. Band members say the true genesis of the title song was much less combative than the version presented in the film.

July 29, 2024
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  • Eric Deggans
 Nikki Glaser's new Emmy-nominated HBO comedy special is <em>Someday You'll Die.</em>

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  • Television

After a roast, comic Nikki Glaser says she needs to cleanse her brain

Glaser made headlines for her roast of Tom Brady. "I don't love people getting offended," she says of her comedy. "All I want is people to like me." Glaser's new HBO special is Someday You'll Die.

July 29, 2024
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  • Terry Gross
Edith Bouvier Beale at her home "Grey Gardens" in January 1972 in New York. A 1975 documentary by that name explores the reclusive lives of Beale and her mother, living in their dilapidated house with over 50 cats.

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  • Pop Culture

JD Vance went viral for ‘cat lady’ comments. The centuries-old trope has a long tail

Vance lamented the country being run by "a bunch of childless cat ladies," including Vice President Harris. The trope has dogged women since the Middle Ages.

July 29, 2024
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  • Rachel Treisman
From left: Francisca Chagas Dos Santos. Taquari District. Rio Branco, Brazil. March 2015. Terence McKeen with his mother Gloria. Blackcreek, Middleburg, Florida. USA. September 2017

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  • Global Health

A flood of emotions in these stoic portraits of people returning home after a deluge

Photojournalist Gideon Mendel has made it his mission to show how ordinary people around the world are affected by the consequences of a changing climate.

July 29, 2024
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  • Diane Cole
Rhaenyra (Emma D'Arcy) doesn't want you to talk to her or her son ever again.

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  • TV Reviews

‘House of the Dragon,’ Season 2, Episode 7: Recruiting dragonseeds bears dragonfruit

Rhaenyra goes looking for a few good men and finds them; Daemon dithers.

July 28, 2024
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  • Glen Weldon
 James Baldwin's face is painted on a decorative bookcase inside the Baldwin & Co. bookstore in New Orleans.

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  • Books

A bookstore named for James Baldwin is counting down to his 100th birthday

James Baldwin died in 1987. Baldwin & Co. is a Black-owned bookstore and community hub in New Orleans. "His literature, his perspective, his insight ... have changed my life," says owner DJ Johnson.

July 28, 2024
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  • Neda Ulaby
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