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Sam Lipman-Stern in the HBO docuseries <em>Telemarketers.</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: the Telemarketers docuseries, Celebrity Book Club and the novel Once More with Feeling.

September 01, 2023
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By:
  • Ronald Young Jr,
  • Kristen Meinzer,
  • and 1 more
Juan Lastra unabashedly stood up, sang and <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@juanp_lastra/video/7272089604314975531">filmed himself</a> during one of Adele's concerts in Las Vegas. When security tried to get him to sit down, Adele told them to leave him alone.

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  • Arts & Life

Should you stand or sit at a concert? Adele fan ignites debate

When security told Juan Lastra to sit down, Adele told them to leave him alone. The incident sparked a debate about concert etiquette. Stand when others are sitting? Tell a fan to sit down?

August 30, 2023
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By:
  • Elizabeth Blair
This booking photo provided by Fulton County Sheriff's Office shows former President Donald Trump on Thursday after he surrendered and was booked at the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta.

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  • Politics

Mug shots are usually harmful. For Trump and his supporters, it's a badge of honor

Typically, mug shots are associated with shame. But for former President Donald Trump and some of his supporters, his mug shot — the first ever of an American president — was something they embraced.

August 28, 2023
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By:
  • Juliana Kim
Bob Barker poses among a sea of prizes at the 6,000th taping of <em>The Price Is Right,</em> in 2004. Barker, who hosted the show for decades, was twice named TV's "Most Durable Performer" by Guinness World Records.

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  • Obituaries

Longtime 'Price Is Right' host Bob Barker dies at 99

For 35 years, Barker was a familiar presence in the living rooms of everyone from little old ladies, to kids home sick from school. He used his fame to promote another great passion: animal rights.

August 26, 2023
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By:
  • Amy Blaszyk
Claire Danes and Zazie Beetz in the Max mini-series <em>Full Circle.</em>

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  • Pop Culture

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

Each week, guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: How To with John Wilson, Full Circle, a sci-fi duology by Arkady Martine, and kayaking lessons.

August 25, 2023
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By:
  • Christina Tucker,
  • Hazel Cills,
  • and 2 more
Miranda (Cynthia Nixon), Charlotte (Kristin Davis), Carrie (Parker), and Anthony (Mario Cantone).

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  • Pop Culture

It's still a haute mess, but I can't resist 'And Just Like That...'

In Season 2, the show settled into its groove as an agreeable-enough cringe-watch.

August 25, 2023
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By:
  • Aisha Harris
Billy McFarland, pictured in 2018, said he's relaunching the infamous Fyre Festival in response to "interest and demand" in his ability "to bring people from around the world together to make the impossible happen."

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  • Arts & Life

Billy McFarland went to prison for Fyre Fest. Are his plans for a reboot legal?

The controversial entrepreneur is seeking redemption and some people are ready for him to try. Tickets have sold out. But he still owes $26 million in restitution to the people he fleeced.

August 24, 2023
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By:
  • Vanessa Romo
Quarterback Trilian Harris is one of the players swindled in a phony high school football program the state of Ohio later called a "scam."

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  • TV Reviews

In 'BS High' and 'Telemarketers,' scamming is a group effort

In two HBO documentary projects about scams in football and telemarketing, the systemic problems that drive big-time and small-time grift get their due.

August 24, 2023
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  • Linda Holmes
Blue Beetle (Xolo Maridueña) looks to the future. So does the movie he's in.

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  • Movies

'Blue Beetle' offers a 3-step cure for superhero fatigue

The current state of superhero cinema may look bleak, but the latest DC film adopts an approach that wrings new life and humor out of a tired formula.

August 24, 2023
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By:
  • Glen Weldon
Ayo Edebiri as Josie and Rachel Sennott as PJ in <em>Bottoms.</em>

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  • Movies

'Bottoms' is an absurdist high school sex comedy that rages and soars

The cheeky black comedy stars Rachel Sennott and Ayo Edebiri as teens who start a fight club to get laid.

August 22, 2023
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By:
  • Aisha Harris
A person passes an ad featuring the Nintendo character Mario at Narita airport in Narita near Tokyo on June 10, 2022.

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  • Pop Culture

Charles Martinet, the voice of Nintendo's beloved Mario character, is stepping down

Nintendo of America confirmed that Charles Martinet will now serve in the role of "Mario Ambassador," traveling around the world to promote the beloved plumber and perform Nintendo character voices.

August 22, 2023
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By:
  • The Associated Press

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  • Pop Culture

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

Each week, guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: The Sparks & Bainbridge Mystery series, Good One podcast and The Kaiju Preservation Society.

August 18, 2023
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By:
  • Margaret Willison,
  • Glen Weldon,
  • and 1 more
Members of the Tuohy family are speaking out after former NFL player Michael Oher alleged that they earned millions from pushing a false narrative that they adopted him. Here, Oher poses for a photograph with the Tuohy family at Radio City Music Hall for the 2009 NFL Draft on April 25, 2009 in New York City.

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  • National

Tuohy family responds to Michael Oher's allegations of his false adoption

In court documents filed in a Tennessee probate court, Oher alleged that the Tuohys convinced him to sign documents that agreed to a conservatorship in 2004.

August 18, 2023
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By:
  • Jonathan Franklin
Michael Oher of the Carolina Panthers celebrates with his family after the NFC Championship Game against the Arizona Cardinals at Bank Of America Stadium on January 24, 2016 in Charlotte, N.C.

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  • Analysis

'The Blind Side' drama just proves the cheap, meaningless hope of white savior films

The true story behind the hit Oscar-winner has only gotten ickier — and Hollywood is complicit.

August 18, 2023
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By:
  • Aisha Harris
New York City banned TikTok on government-owned devices on Wednesday, officials said. Here, the TikTok app logo, shown in Tokyo, on Sept. 28, 2020.

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  • Technology

New York City officially bans TikTok on all government devices

City employees will begin to lose access to TikTok and its website from all city-owned devices and networks, according to a New York City Hall spokesperson.

August 17, 2023
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  • Jonathan Franklin
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