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News Articles: Pop Culture

Azul Guaita as Tita in the show <em>Like Water for Chocolate.</em>

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  • Pop Culture

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

Each week, guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: the movie Mississippi Masala, the series Like Water for Chocolate and Hasan Minhaj's new special.

December 06, 2024
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By:
  • Bedatri D. Choudhury,
  • Cristina Escobar,
  • and 2 more
Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You" is a holiday staple <em>and</em> also an earworm for many. Here, she sings at a 2014 holiday concert in New York City.

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  • Pop Culture

All I want for Christmas is ... help getting this song out of my head

The Earworm Eraser is a 40-second audio track specifically designed to banish "Jingle Bells," "All I Want For Christmas Is You" and other much-too-catchy seasonal tunes.

December 02, 2024
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By:
  • Chloe Veltman
The Dora the Explorer balloon gets pumped up for a flight over the streets of New York City in the 98th Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

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  • Pop Culture

Here's how the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is brought to life

Meet the people who make the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, where balloons fly and imaginations soar.

November 30, 2024
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  • Barry Gordemer
The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, pictured in November 2023, has been a fixture of the holiday since 1924, minus a few years during World War II.

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  • Television

How to watch Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, a tradition 100 years in the making

Macy's is promising its largest Thanksgiving Day parade yet, exactly 100 years after the tradition first started. Here's a look at what to expect and how to watch.

November 27, 2024
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
Handlers show their hounds during the National Dog Show in 2022 in Oaks, Pennsylvania.

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  • Television

The National Dog Show explained: How a dog contest became a Thanksgiving tradition

Football isn't the only thing Americans like to watch on Thanksgiving. The National Dog Show continues its decades-long run, this time with a brand new breed. Here's what to know and how to watch.

November 27, 2024
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  • Rachel Treisman
In Netflix's <em>Our Little Secret</em>, Lindsay Lohan plays Avery, a woman spending Christmas with her boyfriend's family — including her ex, who happens to be dating her boyfriend's sister.

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  • Movies

Our 2024 holiday movie guide has you covered, from Hanukkah to 'Hot Frosty'

Grab your blanket, your cocoa, your snuggler of choice – holiday movie season has arrived. Here's a rundown of the standard and not-so-standard offerings you'll find on TV this year.

November 27, 2024
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By:
  • Linda Holmes
Dictionary.com lexicographers analyze headlines, social media trends, search engine results and other data to come up with the word of the year. This year, it's "demure."

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  • Pop Culture

'Demure' is Dictionary.com's word of the year. If that's news to you, here's the backstory

Usage of the word soared after TikToker Jools Lebron used it in her signature catchphrase "very demure, very mindful."

November 26, 2024
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  • Elizabeth Blair
Not all movies work at cruising altitude. If you're traveling for the holidays, here's what NPR's pop culture critics suggest to make the time fly by.

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  • Movies

What makes a good airplane movie? Less sex, more clear dialogue

Not all movies work at cruising altitude. If you're traveling for the holidays, here's what NPR's pop culture critics suggest to make the time fly by.

November 23, 2024
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By:
  • Glen Weldon,
  • Linda Holmes,
  • and 2 more
South Korean singer and rapper G-Dragon performs in New York in 2017.

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  • Pop Culture

What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend scrolling, listening and gaming

Each week, guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: TikTok Pride and Prejudice, K-pop star G-Dragon, a Disney cover album, and Astro Bot on the PS5.

November 22, 2024
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By:
  • Wailin Wong,
  • Mallory Yu,
  • and 3 more
Jonathan Majors arrives at the Ebony Power 100 gala on Sunday, Nov. 17.

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  • Law

Jonathan Majors and ex-girlfriend Grace Jabbari settle assault and defamation case

In a civil lawsuit this spring, the actor's former girlfriend alleged a "pattern of pervasive domestic abuse" in addition to defamation. Her legal team said the suit has been settled.

November 22, 2024
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By:
  • Clare Lombardo
Galinda (Ariana Grande) and Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo) are opposites in every way, forced to room together at Shiz University.

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  • Movie Reviews

'Wicked' defies gravity, if not time

The movie adaptation of Wicked brings a pop superstar and Tony winner together for career-high performances.

November 20, 2024
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By:
  • Aisha Harris
Lacey Chabert stars as Kathy Barrett in <em>Hot Frosty</em> on Netflix.

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  • Pop Culture

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

Each week, guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: It's Florida, Man on Max, Young Adult audiobooks and Hot Frosty on Netflix.

November 18, 2024
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By:
  • J.C. Howard,
  • Margaret H. Willison,
  • and 1 more
Billy Bob Thornton as Tommy Norris in <em>Landman</em>.

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  • TV Reviews

Billy Bob Thornton is a strong 'Landman' – but the show's women are often caricatures

In Landman, filmmaker Taylor Sheridan turns his attention to the dangerous and very masculine oil industry. TV critic Eric Deggans says the series often portrays women as caricatures.

November 18, 2024
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By:
  • Eric Deggans
Miles Mitchell, 21, won the Timothée Chalamet lookalike contest in New York City in late October, the first in a wave of celebrity lookalike contests that have since popped up in Chicago, San Francisco, London and Dublin.

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  • Pop Culture

From Chalamet to Styles: Why are celebrity lookalike contests suddenly everywhere?

After Timothée Chalamet showed up at his own celebrity lookalike contest, similar events have popped up in cities across and beyond the U.S. Here's a look at the winners — and what's behind the trend.

November 18, 2024
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
Mike Tyson, Jake Paul's manager Nakisa Bidarian, and Jake Paul at a press conference this week ahead of Friday's fight.

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  • Sports

Mike Tyson was a heavyweight champ before Jake Paul was born. Tonight, they face off

One is a YouTuber-turned-boxer. The other hasn't been back in the ring in nearly two decades. Tonight they'll fight in Texas.

November 15, 2024
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  • Dhanika Pineda
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