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Welcome to Flipboard’s culture and lifestyle picks. You'll find insightful interviews, revealing reviews and thought-provoking features. Posts are handpicked by […]

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No one should be surprised that Guillermo Del Toro, master of craftsmanship and practical effects, eschews AI, but it's still nice to hear. The Oscar-winning filmmaker, whose new take on "Frankenstein" is in theaters now, told @npr's Terry Gross that he […]

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Image of Guillermo del Toro and Oscar Isaac on the set of "Frankenstein." Del Toro is putting finishing touches to what appears to be a model of Frankenstein's monster, while Isaac looks on.
October 24, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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More than 500 celebrities including Jane Fonda, Ben Stiller, Spike Lee and Billie Eilish have relaunched the Committee for the First Amendment, which was founded during the McCarthy Era. Here's more from @npr.

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#entertainment #celebrity #hollywood #firstamendment #freespeech
Head shots of Jane Fonda, John Legend, Ben Stiller, Spike Lee, Billie Eilish and Whoopi Goldberg.
October 1, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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It's Friday! It's Latin Music Month! Here's an @npr Tiny Desk Concert from Fito Páez, an icon of Argentine rock who's been making music for more than 40 years.

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#music #tinydesk #latinmusicmonth #hispanicheritage #argentina #fitopaez
Image of Fito Páez performing in Tiny Desk studio.
September 19, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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It's Friday. Our day is almost done. What better way to kick of the weekend than with a Tiny Desk concert by Clipse? The Thornton brothers have been on hiatus for 16 years, but they're better than ever. "The first half of the year in hip-hop hasn't been the […]

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Image of brothers Gene "Malice" and Terrence "Pusha T" Thornton, two Black men who form the band Clipse, performing in NPR's Tiny Desk studio.
July 11, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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This Black Music Month, @npr's Tiny Desk is honoring the anniveraries of landmark albums. 20 years after "Touch" dropped, Amerie performs a set including songs from her 2001 debut album, "All I Have," her latest single, "Mine," and hits from "Touch." She's […]

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Image of R&B singer Amerie, a Black woman, performing in the Tiny Desk studio.
June 7, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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Does a "made in the USA" label affect people's purchasing? Ramon van Meer, a showerhead salesman from Texas, decided to conduct an experiment by labeling one item on his website as imported, costing $129, and a domestic version costing about $100 more. "Of […]

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Several red items with Make America Great Again text on them.
May 20, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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This evening is the Met Gala in New York City, a benefit for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute, and fashion's biggest night out. For 2025, the exhibition's theme is Superfine: Tailoring Black Style, guest-curated by Monica Miller, who wrote […]

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An image of Rihanna and A$AP Rocky (a Black woman and a Black man) posing at the Met Ball 2023. A$AP Rocky is one of the co-chairs of this year's event, which has the theme Superfine: Tailoring Black Style.
May 5, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Anyone feel like listening to some music that's joyful, buoyant and upbeat as we head into the weekend? Here's PJ Sin Suela for @npr's Tiny Desk. The proud Puerto Rican rapper, doctor and author exudes enthusiasm and smiles, accompanied by vocalists, flute […]

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A group of people performing in the Tiny Desk studio — rapper PJ Sin Suela and his band and sign-language interpreter. Sin Suela, in a plaid shirt, is smiling, The shelves behind him and his bandmates are crammed with books and memorabilia.
May 3, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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80 years ago, the 855 members of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, known as the Six Triple Eight, headed to Birmingham, England, to sort an enormous backlog of mail. They were faced with millions of letters and packages addressed to American […]

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An image of women in military dress walking down cobbled streets. This shows the personnel of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion taking part in a parade in honor of Jeanne d'Arc in Rouen, France, 1945. The predominantly Black Six Triple Eight was the only all-female unit to serve overseas in WWII.
April 29, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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It's the weekend! Hooray! You made it! Here's a sublime @npr Tiny Desk concert, featuring Audra McDonald and some of the rest of the cast of the Gypsy, which is currently on Broadway. "McDonald's enthralling performance of "Some People" closes out the show […]

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Image of Audra McDonald performing in the Tiny Desk studio, with Danny Burstein ("Herbie") and Joy Woods ("Louise").
April 25, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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April 17, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy — they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
"The Great […]

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Image of a hardbacked book titled "The Great Gatsby," which has a woman's face floating above the lights of New York (the famous image by Francis Cugat, who designed the cover for the first edition of the book).
April 10, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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The original cast recording of "Hamilton," the score of the videogame Minecraft, Tracy Chapman's eponymous debut album, and a milestone 1970 album by Miles Davis are among 25 additions to the National Recording Registry.
@npr reports:

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Image of Tracy Chapman, a black woman with long hair, playing acoustic guitar on a stage. This is a shot from the 66th Grammy Awards on Feb. 4, 2024 in Los Angeles, taken by Amy Sussman and credited to Getty.
April 9, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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And so say all of us, @brianbilston

#poetry #culture #brianbilston #poem
A poem, black text on white background Prayer for Uninteresting Times Send me a slow news day, a quiet, subdued day, in which nothing much happens of note, save for the passing of time, the consumption of wine, and a re-run of "Murder, She Wrote." Grant me a no news day, a spare-me-your-views day, in which nothing much happens at all, except a few hours together some regional weather, a day we can barely recall. Brian Bilston
April 1, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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More than 10,000 Japanese Americans were incarcerated at Manzanar Relocation Center, Calif., during World War II. Playing and watching baseball was one of the ways these Americans tried to retain some sense of normalcy. Dan Kwong is a longtime volunteer at […]

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Image of a baseball field in the middle of the Sierra Nevada region of California, with mountains looming in the background.
March 28, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Happy St. Patrick's Day! Here's your annual reminder. Also, this ☘️ is a shamrock (Irish) and this 🍀is a four-leafed clover (not particularly Irish).
A poster headed Paddy NOT Patty On the left is a picture of a boat with the caption: Paddy arrived in a boat On the right is a picture of a burger with the caption: Patty arrived in a bun On the left is a picture of a man in a green bishop's mitre and robe (St. Patrick) with the caption, Paddy brought Christianity to the Irish. On the right is a picture of a beef patty and a piece of paper with the caption, Patty got some grease on a pamphlet. On the left is a picture of St. Patrick with a shamrock with the caption, Paddy made the shamrock a symbol of Ireland. On the right is an image that says Patty tried to make it a garnish On the left is an image of St. Patrick with a staff and squiggly lines with the caption, Paddy drove the snakes out of Ireland On the right is an image of a meat patty with a sign that says F** off and a snake with the caption, Patty gave it a go. On the left is a caption that says Paddy was made a saint and is remembered on March 17 On the right is a caption that says Patty got eaten by a goat. He didn't mind.
March 17, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Is this the perfect soundtrack to a quiet Thursday afternoon? R&B artist Leon Thomas' first <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:7ofada7ohdpctcbghhcnn2cg" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky-mention">@npr Tiny Desk appearance comprises five songs — three from his new album, "MUTT," and two from 2023's "Electric Dusk" — and showcase his beautiful voice to a tee […]

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Image of Leon Thomas in the Tiny Desk studio — a Black man playing electric guitar against a backdrop of shelves stacked with music memorabilia.
February 20, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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The Sims is 25 years old. @Smithsonianmag takes a look at its enduring appeal and cultural impact.

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#thesims #videogames #gaming #electronicarts
A clip of Sims 4 being shown at the E3 conference in 2014.
February 6, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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@brianbilston knows what's what.

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An image of a poem by Brian Bilston Mnemonic Thirty days hath September, April, June and November. Unless a leap year is its fate, February hath twenty-eight. All the rest hath three days more, excepting January, which hath six thousand, one hundred and eighty-four. Brian Bilston
January 23, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Copyrights expired yesterday for a wealth of books, films, comic strips, musical compositions and other works from 1929. @Smithsonianmag breaks down what creations are now in the public domain, from Popeye to Ravel's "Boléro."

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Images depicting works entering the public domain include The Sound and the Fury, the first recordings of Rhapsody in Blue, Popeye, Tintin and The Broadway Melody. Illustration by Emily Lankiewicz / Wikimedia Commons; Gabriel Hackett, MGM Studios, Movie Poster Image Art via Getty Images.
January 2, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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If you want to glimpse into a world without modern medicine, just pick up a Victorian book. In the first half of the 19th century, between 40% and 50% of children in the U.S. didn't live past the age of five. Kids were dying of diseases that are now […]

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Illustration of an elderly man leaning over a young girl, devastated by grief at the death of the child. This is Thomas Worth’s 1872 illustration for the Household Edition of Dickens' "The Old Curiosity Shop."
December 11, 2024 at 6:54 PM
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Poet Nikki Giovanni died on Monday at age 81. Read @npr's tribute to her, from her first collection, 1968's "Black Feeling Black Talk," to her upcoming "The Last Book," and watch a video of her in conversation with James Baldwin. "Her language is sometimes […]

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American poet Yolanda Cornelia 'Nikki' Giovanni leans on her desk beside a typewriter, in front of a wall decorated with photos, 1973. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
December 10, 2024 at 11:13 PM
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In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, "blackbirders" lured, coerced and kidnapped thousands of Pacific Islanders for forced labor in Australia and Fiji.
@Smithsonianmag explains why.

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#history @histodons #pacificislands #australia #fiji #britishempire
Image of a group of people at a plantation in Queensland in the late 19th century.
December 9, 2024 at 8:18 PM
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Time to add some poetry to your feed! Here's a little something by @brianbilston, the Banksy of the poetry world, about monetizing your followers.

#brianbilston #poetry #humor #humour #monetization #socialmedia #monet
A block of text (a poem) that says the following: Monetisation The advert said MONETISE YOUR FOLLOWERS so he thought he would respond; by painting them in the changing light, like waterlilies in a pond. Brian Bilston
November 14, 2024 at 9:23 PM
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The English translation of Haruki Murakami's first novel in six years is set for release next week. Called "The City and its Uncertain Walls," it's another genre-defying book, with some of Murakami's trademark motifs including jazz, coffee, and the Beatles […]

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Image of Haruki Murakami, a Japanese man who is 75 years old.
November 13, 2024 at 5:59 PM