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News Articles: Pop Culture

Disney added a warning on its streaming service to some of its titles with racist depictions, including <em>Dumbo</em>. The crows' appearance and musical number in the movie "pay homage to racist minstrel shows," Disney said.

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  • Movies

Disney Warns Viewers Of Racism In Some Classic Movies With Strengthened Label

Disney strengthened language used to denounce racist depictions in some of its classic properties on the company's streaming service.

October 16, 2020
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  • Reese Oxner
Dominique (Odley Jean) is one of several high school students in Netflix's sprawling, ambitious <em>Grand Army.</em>

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  • TV Reviews

'Grand Army': Breakout Performances In A Depressing High School Tale

Netflix's latest teen melodrama attempts to tackle a lot of social issues and ills at once, to mixed results.

October 16, 2020
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  • Aisha Harris
Siblings Ana (Sydney Lemmon) and Daimon (Tom Austen) have a rivalry that causes infernal conflict in Hulu's <em>Helstrom</em>.

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  • TV Reviews

Damned If You Do: Hulu's Less-Than-Marvelous 'Helstrom'

A surfeit of subplots and secondary characters — and a complicated production history — take a minor Marvel occult hero on a journey that turns out to be a dead end.

October 16, 2020
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  • Glen Weldon
Nathan Apodaca's TikTok video, in which he longboards to Fleetwood Mac's "Dreams," has catapulted him to viral fame. Here, he is standing in the pickup truck given to him by Ocean Spray. In his video, Apodaca sips from a bottle of Ocean Spray's Cran-Raspberry juice.

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  • Technology

TikTok Sensation: Meet The Idaho Potato Worker Who Sent Fleetwood Mac Sales Soaring

Nathan Apodaca, 37, of Idaho Falls, recorded a laid-back video while riding a skateboard downhill and drinking Cran-Raspberry juice. The Internet went wild and streamed Fleetwood Mac.

October 11, 2020
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  • Bobby Allyn
What's creepier: The kid (Benjamin Evan Ainsworth) or the high-waisted jeans on the au pair (Victoria Pedretti)? <em>The Haunting of Bly Manor</em> makes a case for both.

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  • TV Reviews

Creepy Kids, A Dark Mansion And '80s Fashion: 'The Haunting Of Bly Manor'

The follow-up to Netflix's The Haunting of Hill House series may not be as spooky, but it does manage to wrap up its story in a more satisfying manner.

October 09, 2020
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  • Glen Weldon
<em>Super Mario Bros. 35 </em>once again brings to mind the influence of Nintendo's fan community.

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  • Games

'Super Mario Bros. 35' Evokes Nintendo's Strained Relationship With Fan Developers

A new battle royale Super Mario Bros. game — released on October 1st — has re-ignited a conversation about Nintendo's relationship with its most passionate fans.

October 06, 2020
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  • Vincent Acovino
Tech mogul Paul LeBlanc (John Slattery) sounds the alarm in FOX's <em>NeXt.</em>

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  • TV Reviews

FOX's 'NeXt' Is Pretty Chill For A Techno-Thriller

A tech CEO (John Slattery) blows the whistle on his own in A.I., which has gained sentience and set out to destroy the human race in FOX's agreeably cheesy techno-thriller.

October 06, 2020
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  • Glen Weldon
GPB News NPR

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  • Television

'SNL' Star Bowen Yang Discusses Diversity, Queer Identity On Show

NPR's Sam Sanders, host of the NPR podcast It's Been A Minute, talks to comedian Bowen Yang about the upcoming season of Saturday Night Live, and navigating queer and Asian identities on the show.

October 05, 2020
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  • Sam Sanders
Lily Collins plays Emily in <em>Emily in Paris</em>.

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  • TV Reviews

'Emily In Paris' Is A Painless And Pretty Frolic (And That's About It)

Darren Star, who created Younger and Sex And The City, has a new show on Netflix about a young woman who heads to France for the job of her dreams.

October 02, 2020
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  • Linda Holmes
"Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who's the fairest ... you know what, never mind. I'm good." Michael (Jim Parsons) and Donald (Matt Bomer) in <em>The Boys in the Band.</em>

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  • Movie Reviews

'The Boys In The Band': Raging Gracefully

Netflix's adaptation of Mart Crowley's 1968 play about a gay birthday party that goes off the rails features hard liquor, sharp tongues and broad types.

September 30, 2020
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  • Glen Weldon
GPB News NPR

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  • Music

How TikTok Has Changed The Music Industry

TikTok's fate in the U.S. is unclear, but one thing is: the video-sharing app has been good for emerging artists. NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with LA Times pop music critic Mikael Wood.

September 27, 2020
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  • GPB Newsroom
GPB News NPR

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  • Health

Rita Wilson Wants You To Get Your Flu Shot

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Rita Wilson about her recovery from COVID-19, and about her campaign to get 200 million Americans over the age of 50 to get flu shots this year.

September 26, 2020
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  • GPB Newsroom
Sir David Attenborough, shown here during a ceremony last September, broke the world record on Thursday for the fastest time to reach one million followers on Instagram.

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  • Pop Culture

Sir David Attenborough Reaches 1M Instagram Followers In Hours, Breaking World Record

The famed naturalist and broadcaster beat out actress Jennifer Aniston for fastest time to reach one million followers on Instagram, according to Guinness World Records.

September 26, 2020
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  • Reese Oxner
"I'm not sure how the country will survive," said Alexandre Garnizé, 48, a historian and musician who plays African and Brazilian percussion.

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  • World

Rio's Joyous Carnival, The World's Largest, Is Postponed Due To COVID-19

The postponement will cause financial hardship for people who depend on the celebration — but "financial loss doesn't justify human loss," says one musician. Brazil has been hit hard by the virus.

September 25, 2020
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  • Marisa Peñaloza
(Center to Right): Samantha (Jessica Rothe), Becky (Ashleigh LaThrop), Ian (Dan Byrd) and Wilson (Desmin Borges) are bunker buddies in <em>Utopia</em>.

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  • Television

Amazon's Violent, Cynical 'Utopia' Just Wasn't Made For These Times

The US adaptation of a 2013-14 British series about comic book nerds attempting to save the world from a viral pandemic dials back the humor and cranks up the violence.

September 25, 2020
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  • Glen Weldon
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