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News Articles: Series: What's Making Us Happy: Recommendations From 'Pop Culture Happy Hour'

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
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
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
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

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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
"Subspace Rhapsody" is a special musical episode of <em>Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. </em>It's episode 9 of Season 2, and most shows wait a bit longer to pull out a stunt like this — but turns out it actually works.

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  • Pop Culture

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

Each week, guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy: This week, Burn It Down, Seed&Spark, Brandy Clark, and the musical episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.

August 11, 2023
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By:
  • Cyrena Touros,
  • Joelle Monique,
  • and 2 more

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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, X-Terminators, The Righteous Gemstones, and the new Gabriels album Angels & Queens.

August 04, 2023
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By:
  • Jordan Morris,
  • Roxana Hadadi,
  • and 3 more
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  • Pop Culture

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

Each week, guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: Barbie, Praise Petey, and the musical legacy of Sinéad O'Connor.

July 28, 2023
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By:
  • Glen Weldon,
  • Stephen Thompson,
  • and 1 more
Melinda French Gates is funding efforts to elect more women to public office through her company, <a href="https://www.pivotalventures.org/">Pivotal Ventures</a>.

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  • Elections

Melinda French Gates calls for women's parity in political leadership

Melinda French Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is funding efforts to elect more women to public office through her company, Pivotal Ventures.

July 26, 2023
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By:
  • Olivia Hampton
Tia Nomore stars in <em>Earth Mama </em>as Gia, a single, pregnant mother of two, working to reclaim her children from foster care.

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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: the movie Earth Mama, a recent episode of Vibe Check and albums from Aqua and The Japanese House.

July 22, 2023
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By:
  • Bedatri D. Choudhury,
  • Aisha Harris,
  • and 2 more

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  • Pop Culture

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

Each week, guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: Flyana Boss, Project Runway All Stars, and new nonfiction about queer representation and media.

July 14, 2023
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By:
  • Aisha Harris,
  • Linda Holmes,
  • and 1 more
Intersex activists Sean Saifa Wall, left, River Gallo and Alicia Roth Weigel in the film <em>Every Body</em>.

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  • Arts & Life

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: the Mystery Menu series, The Alarmist podcast, Every Body and Two Can Play That Game.

July 07, 2023
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By:
  • Linda Holmes,
  • Kristen Meinzer,
  • and 2 more
The excellent summer movie season is what's making Chris Klimek happy this week. Above, a digitally de-aged Harrison Ford in <em>Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. </em>

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  • Arts & Life

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: Lady Audaci-Tea, a summer of good movies and Hair Plugs & Heartache.

July 01, 2023
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By:
  • Kristen Meinzer,
  • Chris Klimek,
  • and 2 more
Bob the Drag Queen and JujuBee in the upcoming<em> Dungeons and Drag Queens</em>

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  • Pop Culture

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

Each week, guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: Beware the Woman, Dungeons and Drag Queens, and the DVD menu of The Social Network.

June 23, 2023
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By:
  • Linda Holmes,
  • Wailin Wong,
  • and 3 more
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