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A screenshot from the premiere of <em>The Joy of Painting</em> shows the painter Bob Ross with the work, A Walk in the Woods, which is up for sale.

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  • Arts & Life

This rare Bob Ross painting could be yours — for close to $10 million

The late pop culture icon once said he painted over 30,000 works of art in his lifetime, but it's rare for an authenticated Ross piece to come on the market, let alone one with this much history.

September 20, 2023
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By:
  • Emily Olson
Other people just going about their lives in public are not fodder for your social media. Let's think a little harder about the etiquette of putting pictures and videos of strangers up online.

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  • Pop Culture

Maybe think twice before making an innocent stranger go viral?

Other people just going about their lives in public are not fodder for your social media. Let's think a little harder about the etiquette of putting pictures and videos of strangers up online.

September 17, 2023
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By:
  • Linda Holmes
A detail from the cover of <em>Jaguar II, </em>the new album from Victoria Monét.

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  • Arts & Life

What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend reading and listening

Each week, Pop Culture Happy Hour guests and hosts share what's bringing them joy. This week: The audiobooks Mythos and Why We Love Baseball, and the new albums Jaguar II and Blame My Ex.

September 15, 2023
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By:
  • Linda Holmes,
  • Aisha Harris,
  • and 2 more
A pug reacts to the camera on the first day of the Festival of Dogs weekend at Castle Howard on May 21, 2022 in York, England.

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  • Games & Humor

Wouldn't it be great if pets could talk? This might be the next best thing

A voiceover artist adds hilarious voices to pet videos submitted by his fans on social media.

September 14, 2023
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By:
  • Barry Gordemer
Alex Levy (Jennifer Aniston) remains a real pill, not that <em>The Morning Show </em>has noticed.

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  • TV Reviews

'The Morning Show' is back, with a new billionaire

In Season 3 of the Apple drama, a billionaire played by Jon Hamm may be buying the network, and it has everyone concerned. Imagine that!

September 13, 2023
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By:
  • Linda Holmes
When the home that was featured — at least its outside — on <em>The Brady Bunch</em> went on the market, buyer Tina Trahan reportedly told her agent she was "obsessed" with the single-story, mid century ranch style house.

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  • Pop Culture

After months on the market, 'The Brady Bunch' house sells for $3.2 million

HGTV, which bought the house in 2018, paid well over asking then poured nearly $2 million into a renovation to recreate the 1970s set. But it seems nostalgia was not enough to cover the asking price.

September 13, 2023
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By:
  • Vanessa Romo
Some of the winners of this year's Whiting Literary Magazine Prize

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  • Books

The Paris Review, n+1 and others win 2023 Whiting Literary Magazine Prizes

The 2023 Whiting Literary Magazine Prize has been awarded to The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Paris Review, Oxford American and n+1 among others

September 12, 2023
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By:
  • Neda Ulaby
This 1:24 scale miniature was used to film pivotal scenes from the first Star Wars film. It's now at the center of a auction of items collected over decades by Greg Jein, a master model-builder for film and TV.

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  • Pop Culture

'Star Wars' Red Leader X-wing model heads a cargo bay's worth of props at auction

More than 550 items from the late Greg Jein are heading to auction, from Nichelle Nichols' iconic knee-high boots and red tunic as Lt. Uhura to a hairpiece for William Shatner's Captain Kirk.

September 11, 2023
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By:
  • Bill Chappell
In the daily Connections puzzle from <em>The New York Times</em>, players divide a grid of 16 words into four groups of four.

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  • Pop Culture

Puzzlers gather 'round the digital water cooler to talk daily games

With smaller, fragmented audiences, water-cooler TV moments now are few and far between. But you can scratch that itch on social media, posting about your daily puzzle habit.

September 09, 2023
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By:
  • Linda Holmes
Some of the celebrity couples who have announced their splits in recent months include (L-R): Billy Porter and Adam Smith, Britney Spears and Sam Asghari and Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner.

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  • Pop Culture

Celebrity couples keep breaking up. Why do we care so much?

Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner are the latest high-profile pair to announce their split in what some have deemed "the year of the celebrity breakup." Experts explain why people get so invested from afar.

September 09, 2023
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
Blair Penner, left, Chloe Bennet and Anthony Konechny in <em>Married by Mistake.</em>

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  • Pop Culture

What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing and listening

Each week, Pop Culture Happy Hour guests and hosts share what's bringing them joy. This week: the Made in Heaven series, the movies Married by Mistake and Gran Turismo and the 50 MPH podcast.

September 08, 2023
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By:
  • Candice Lim,
  • Bedatri D. Choudhury,
  • and 2 more
Actor Danny Masterson leaves Los Angeles superior Court with his wife Bijou Phillips after a judge declared a mistrial in his rape case in 2022.

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  • Arts & Life

Actor Danny Masterson sentenced to 30 years to life in prison for rape

The "That '70s Show" star was found guilty of two counts of rape in May, in a trial that involved the Church of Scientology.

September 07, 2023
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By:
  • Andrew Limbong
Franne Lee at the New York Public Library's Hal Prince exhibition in 2019. Lee designed the costumes for Prince's <em>Sweeney Todd</em> and <em>Candide.</em>

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  • Obituaries

Franne Lee, who designed costumes for 'SNL' and 'Sweeney Todd,' dies at 81

From SNL's Coneheads to Killer Bees, Broadway's Sweeney Todd and Candide, we remember Tony Award-winning costume designer Franne Lee who died on Aug. 27.

September 06, 2023
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By:
  • Elizabeth Blair
In this image from video provided by Rebecca Barger, festival-goers are helped off a truck from the Burning Man festival site in Black Rock, Nev., on Monday, Sept. 4, 2023.

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  • Arts & Life

Burning Man festival organizers lift driving ban and allow people to leave

Organizers of the Burning Man festival lifted a driving ban on Monday as muddy roads that had stranded thousands of attendees in the Nevada desert had dried up enough to allow people to begin leaving.

September 05, 2023
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By:
  • Emma Bowman and
  • Chloe Veltman
Ruby Franke, pictured here on her Instagram account, was arrested on suspicion of aggravated child abuse.

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  • National

Who is Ruby Franke? What to know about the mommy vlogger accused of child abuse

For years, the Utah YouTube star sparked criticism for her parenting tactics. She was arrested this week after her malnourished son escaped out a window and ran to a nearby home, police said.

September 01, 2023
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By:
  • Emily Olson
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