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"Being onstage was the first time that I felt safe in my young life," Misty Copeland says. "I've always felt very protected when I was onstage."
'It's as if I've been reborn': Misty Copeland begins a next chapter in 'a new body'
Copeland says her final performance with American Ballet Theatre was a thank you to the communities that had supported her. "What I represented is something far bigger than me," she says.
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November 5, 2025 at 7:06 PM
"Being onstage was the first time that I felt safe in my young life," Misty Copeland says. "I've always felt very protected when I was onstage."
You can now watch @tonyamosley.bsky.social's great interview with Judd Apatow!
Judd Apatow on life as a "Comedy Nerd"
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November 3, 2025 at 11:26 PM
You can now watch @tonyamosley.bsky.social's great interview with Judd Apatow!
"The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool."
Cameron Crowe talks with Terry Gross about the real life stories that inspired 'Almost Famous.'
Cameron Crowe talks with Terry Gross about the real life stories that inspired 'Almost Famous.'
Why Cameron Crowe wears 'uncool' as a badge of honor
Crowe was just 15 years old when he became a music journalist in 1973. He had to talk his mom into letting him go on the road with bands. He chronicles his adventures in his new memoir, The Uncool.
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October 27, 2025 at 7:26 PM
"The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool."
Cameron Crowe talks with Terry Gross about the real life stories that inspired 'Almost Famous.'
Cameron Crowe talks with Terry Gross about the real life stories that inspired 'Almost Famous.'
Oscar and Grammy-winning music producer Mark Ronson says nothing beats the rush of a great DJ set. "You can call it the scream, the chant, whatever it is. It's like clay or Play-Doh, like the whole crowd is this thing that you're able to mold together," he tells @tonyamosley.bsky.social.
'I can't stop DJing,' Mark Ronson says — never mind the back pain
Ronson's memoir, Night People, is a love letter to late-night 1990s New York City. Ronson would go on to produce music for Bruno Mars, Lady Gaga and other pop superstars.
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September 30, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Oscar and Grammy-winning music producer Mark Ronson says nothing beats the rush of a great DJ set. "You can call it the scream, the chant, whatever it is. It's like clay or Play-Doh, like the whole crowd is this thing that you're able to mold together," he tells @tonyamosley.bsky.social.
Comic Cristela Alonzo talks with Terry Gross about ICE raids, growing up in an abandoned diner, and being mentored by labor activist Dolores Huerta.
Comic Cristela Alonzo grew up in fear of border patrol. ICE has 'brought it all back'
For the first seven years of her life, Alonzo lived in an abandoned diner in a south Texas border town. Her new Netflix stand-up special is called Upper Classy.
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September 29, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Comic Cristela Alonzo talks with Terry Gross about ICE raids, growing up in an abandoned diner, and being mentored by labor activist Dolores Huerta.
Our film critic Justin Chang calls 'One Battle After Another' "a prescient, mesmerizing, frequently hilarious and fearlessly political piece of work." 👇 His review. www.npr.org/2025/09/26/n...
September 26, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Our film critic Justin Chang calls 'One Battle After Another' "a prescient, mesmerizing, frequently hilarious and fearlessly political piece of work." 👇 His review. www.npr.org/2025/09/26/n...
"People can get trapped in a recipe, and feel so bound to the written letter," Samin Nosrat says. "They feel really constraining, and that constraint hurts my heart."
Samin Nosrat once shunned recipes. Now she's sharing them
The Salt Fat Acid Heat cookbook author once worried that recipes were too constraining. But she now sees them as a tool for creating community and sharing food. Nosrat's new book is Good Things.
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September 23, 2025 at 7:27 PM
"People can get trapped in a recipe, and feel so bound to the written letter," Samin Nosrat says. "They feel really constraining, and that constraint hurts my heart."
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From @whyy.org in Philadelphia, our talk with Terry Gross. Now on video! An honor to celebrate half a century of @nprfreshair.bsky.social.
Terry Gross on 50 Years of “Fresh Air” | Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
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September 18, 2025 at 7:58 PM
From @whyy.org in Philadelphia, our talk with Terry Gross. Now on video! An honor to celebrate half a century of @nprfreshair.bsky.social.
Go Sam. Go Terry. Go Birds.
Flew to Philly to sit with Terry Gross and celebrate 50 years of @nprfreshair.bsky.social. Go birds. talkeasypod.com/terry-50-yea...
Terry Gross – Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
Terry Gross on 50 years hosting Fresh Air, pivotal moments from her talks with Joan Didion and John Updike, and the future of public radio.
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September 15, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Go Sam. Go Terry. Go Birds.
Review: The new Naked Gun film, starring Liam Neeson, captures its predecessors' slapstick spirit. Freakier Friday, meanwhile, proves less compelling, despite a solid performance by Lindsay Lohan.
The laughs land in 'The Naked Gun' reboot, but fall flat in 'Freakier Friday'
The new Naked Gun film, starring Liam Neeson, captures its predecessors' slapstick spirit. Freakier Friday, meanwhile, proves less compelling, despite a solid performance by Lindsey Lohan.
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August 8, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Review: The new Naked Gun film, starring Liam Neeson, captures its predecessors' slapstick spirit. Freakier Friday, meanwhile, proves less compelling, despite a solid performance by Lindsay Lohan.
As he winds down his podcast, WTF, after 16 years, Marc Maron reflects on what he'll miss: "These conversations are very real conversations for me ... and that is kind of nourishing for the spirit and the soul."
With 'WTF' ending, podcaster Marc Maron still wants to talk, but outside the studio
As Maron winds down his podcast, he reflects on what he'll miss most. "These conversations [on WTF] are very real conversations for me ... and that is kind of nourishing for the spirit and the soul."
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July 29, 2025 at 4:57 PM
As he winds down his podcast, WTF, after 16 years, Marc Maron reflects on what he'll miss: "These conversations are very real conversations for me ... and that is kind of nourishing for the spirit and the soul."
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Listen, when you finally fulfill your absolute lifelong dream of talking to Terry Gross on @nprfreshair.bsky.social, you get to ask her some of your burning questions, too. ✨ www.npr.org/2025/07/23/g...
July 23, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Listen, when you finally fulfill your absolute lifelong dream of talking to Terry Gross on @nprfreshair.bsky.social, you get to ask her some of your burning questions, too. ✨ www.npr.org/2025/07/23/g...
Review: The internet and its discontents run wild in a new film by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, a prolifically offbeat Japanese filmmaker who's spent the last four decades putting subversive spins on traditional genres.
You'll find a gripping new internet thriller in the 'Cloud'
The internet and its discontents run wild in a new film by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, a prolifically offbeat Japanese filmmaker who's spent the last four decades putting subversive spins on traditional genres.
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July 18, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Review: The internet and its discontents run wild in a new film by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, a prolifically offbeat Japanese filmmaker who's spent the last four decades putting subversive spins on traditional genres.
For decades, Condé Nast publications such as Vogue and Vanity Fair were consequential tastemakers. Writer Michael Grynbaum explores the heyday of these magazines and how they lost their footing.
How did Condé Nast go from dominance to decline? A new book explains
For decades, Condé Nast publications such as Vogue and Vanity Fair were consequential tastemakers. Writer Michael Grynbaum explores the heyday of these magazines and how they lost their footing.
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July 17, 2025 at 5:56 PM
For decades, Condé Nast publications such as Vogue and Vanity Fair were consequential tastemakers. Writer Michael Grynbaum explores the heyday of these magazines and how they lost their footing.
Ebon Moss-Bachrach has won two Emmys for his portrayal of an abrasive and ornery cook/maître d on the FX series The Bear. The show is known for kitchen chaos, but he says the set is calm.
Hold the yelling: Ebon Moss-Bachrach says 'The Bear' set is 'very loving'
Moss-Bachrach has won two Emmys for his portrayal of an abrasive and ornery cook/maître d on the FX series The Bear. The show is known for kitchen chaos, but he says the set is calm and well run.
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June 25, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Ebon Moss-Bachrach has won two Emmys for his portrayal of an abrasive and ornery cook/maître d on the FX series The Bear. The show is known for kitchen chaos, but he says the set is calm.
Review: Mariska Hargitay has only the vaguest memories of her mother, Jayne Mansfield, the sex-symbol movie star who died in the 1967 crash. Now, Hargitay examines her family history in a new documentary.
'Law & Order' star investigates her own family's tragic car crash in 'My Mom Jayne'
Mariska Hargitay has only the vaguest memories of her mother, Jayne Mansfield, the sex-symbol movie star who died in the 1967 crash. Now, Hargitay examines her family history in a new documentary.
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June 25, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Review: Mariska Hargitay has only the vaguest memories of her mother, Jayne Mansfield, the sex-symbol movie star who died in the 1967 crash. Now, Hargitay examines her family history in a new documentary.
We've got four summertime suspense novels for you.
Looking for summertime suspense? Turn up the heat with these 4 mystery novels
Maureen Corrigan recommends four great reads: El Dorado Drive, by Megan Abbott; The House on Buzzards Bay, by Dwyer Murphy; King of Ashes, by S.A. Cosby; and Murder Takes a Vacation, by Laura Lippman.
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June 18, 2025 at 4:14 PM
We've got four summertime suspense novels for you.
Review: Thomas Mallon has been keeping diaries for most of his life. The Very Heart of It collects entries from the years 1983 to 1994, when he had recently come out as gay and moved to New York City.
Thomas Mallon's NYC diaries get to the 'Very Heart' of the AIDS crisis
Mallon has been keeping diaries for most of his life. The Very Heart of It collects entries from the years 1983 to 1994, when he had recently come out as gay and moved to New York City.
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June 11, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Review: Thomas Mallon has been keeping diaries for most of his life. The Very Heart of It collects entries from the years 1983 to 1994, when he had recently come out as gay and moved to New York City.
Review: An Edinburgh police detective and a team of misfits search for a woman who vanished several years earlier. Critic John Powers says the byplay of characters makes Dept. Q worth watching.
Cold case mystery 'Dept. Q' focuses more on the characters than crime
An Edinburgh police detective and a team of misfits search for a woman who vanished several years earlier. Critic John Powers says the byplay of characters makes Dept. Q worth watching.
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June 10, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Review: An Edinburgh police detective and a team of misfits search for a woman who vanished several years earlier. Critic John Powers says the byplay of characters makes Dept. Q worth watching.
"People show up wearing wigs of my bowl cut to my shows now. I've started a movement." - Atsuko Okatsuka
Growing up, comic Atsuko Okatsuka felt like 'a freak' -- now she's owning it
Okatsuka is known for her bowl haircut — and for finding humor in the dysfunction of her immigrant family. Her standup special Father is about her dad, who reappeared in her life after decades away.
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June 9, 2025 at 6:23 PM
"People show up wearing wigs of my bowl cut to my shows now. I've started a movement." - Atsuko Okatsuka
Review: Mike Flanagan's new film, a maudlin mystery about a man dying of cancer, feels hobbled by its extreme faithfulness to the Stephen King novella on which its based. @justincchang.bsky.social
'The Life of Chuck' might leave you brushing away tears -- or scratching your head
Mike Flanagan's new film, a maudlin mystery about a man dying of cancer, feels hobbled by its extreme faithfulness to the Stephen King novella on which its based.
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June 6, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Review: Mike Flanagan's new film, a maudlin mystery about a man dying of cancer, feels hobbled by its extreme faithfulness to the Stephen King novella on which its based. @justincchang.bsky.social
Ocean Vuong's new novel, 'The Emperor of Gladness,' is the first he's written, from start to finish, since his mother died in 2019. He says writing it was a way to honor her memory. @tonyamosley.bsky.social
After his mother's death, Ocean Vuong wrote his way out of grief
Vuong's new novel, The Emperor of Gladness, is the first he's written, from start to finish, since his mother died in 2019. He says writing it was a way to honor her memory.
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June 5, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Ocean Vuong's new novel, 'The Emperor of Gladness,' is the first he's written, from start to finish, since his mother died in 2019. He says writing it was a way to honor her memory. @tonyamosley.bsky.social
Review: Laura Piani's amiable new romance is weighed down by all its allusions and borrowings — and ultimately fails to deliver on Jane Austen's wit.
'Jane Austen Wrecked My Life' doesn't live up to its namesake
Laura Piani's amiable new romance is weighed down by all its allusions and borrowings — and ultimately fails to deliver on Austen's wit.
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June 3, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Review: Laura Piani's amiable new romance is weighed down by all its allusions and borrowings — and ultimately fails to deliver on Jane Austen's wit.
.@markhamillofficial.bsky.social spoke to Fresh Air about auditioning for Star Wars, voiceover work, and the advice Carrie Fisher gave him.
Mark Hamill used to downplay his 'Star Wars' past. Now he's embracing it
Hamill played Luke Skywalker, one of the most iconic heroes in movie history. His latest film, The Life of Chuck, is an adaptation of a Stephen King novella.
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June 3, 2025 at 6:36 PM
.@markhamillofficial.bsky.social spoke to Fresh Air about auditioning for Star Wars, voiceover work, and the advice Carrie Fisher gave him.
The success of I Love Lucy is often credited to Lucille Ball's comedic talent, but biographer Todd Purdum says Desi Arnaz was more than just "second banana" to Lucy. He also helped shape the modern sitcom.
With 'I Love Lucy' and beyond, Desi Arnaz helped shaped TV as we know it
The success of I Love Lucy is often credited to Lucille Ball's comedic talent, but biographer Todd Purdum says Arnaz was more than just "second banana" to Lucy. He also helped shape the modern sitcom.
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June 2, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The success of I Love Lucy is often credited to Lucille Ball's comedic talent, but biographer Todd Purdum says Desi Arnaz was more than just "second banana" to Lucy. He also helped shape the modern sitcom.