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News Articles: Series: Pop Culture Happy Hour

Linda Evangelista, left, Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell and Christy Turlington in <em>The Super Models.</em>

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  • TV Reviews

'The Super Models,' in their own words

A documentary produced by its subject can come off as hagiography. But The Super Models is a corrective produced by women who were rarely given the opportunity to be seen as complete human beings.

September 24, 2023
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By:
  • Linda Holmes
Adjani Salmon as Kwabena in<em> Dreaming Whilst Black.</em>

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  • Pop Culture

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

Each week, Pop Culture Happy Hour guests and hosts share what's bringing them joy. This week: For the Culture, The People Who Report More Stress, Dreaming Whilst Black and Little Fires Everywhere.

September 22, 2023
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By:
  • Cate Young,
  • Jeffrey Masters,
  • and 2 more
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
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
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
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
The idea that boundless customization is the way of the future misunderstands the relationship between creator and audience and the negotiation that goes on between the two. Above, Laura Marano as Cami and Jordi Webber as Jack in <em>Choose Love</em>.

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  • TV Reviews

This romcom lets you pick the ending — that doesn't make it good

Turns out multiple choice options work better for SATs than for storytelling. Netflix's Choose Love makes the case against AI writing — ordering a movie like a pizza doesn't make for good movies.

September 02, 2023
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By:
  • Linda Holmes
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
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
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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By:
  • 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

Tagged as: 

  • 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
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