NSA Coverage Garners Pulitzers For Post And Guardian
Winners of the 2014 Pulitzer Prizes were announced Monday. The Washington Post and The Guardian were among the notable winners, commended for together breaking the news of NSA surveillance programs.
View Article'I Kinda Stole The Show': Laverne Cox And The Path To Prestige Television
"My femininity was seen as a problem that needed to be solved."Laverne Cox is talking about her childhood in Mobile, Ala. She remembers being routinely chased and beaten by classmates after school. Cox...
View ArticleFor These Vegans, Masculinity Means Protecting The Planet
Real men eat meat. They kill it and then they grill it.That's the stereotype, or cliche, that's about as old as time.At a recent barbecue in Brooklyn, N.Y., a half-dozen guys who resist that particular...
View Article'Boondocks' Creator Asks, 'What Would Black Jesus Do?'
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View ArticleIf Literature's Great Characters Could Text, They'd Charm Your Pantalets Off
What if the greatest characters in literary history all carried around smartphones and typed out messages to each other? That's the conceit of the new book Texts from Jane Eyre. Author Mallory Ortberg...
View ArticleIn 'Straight White Men,' A Play Explores The Reality Of Privilege
The straight white men of Straight White Men aren't what you might expect. Near the beginning of the new off-Broadway play, two adult brothers play a homemade, family board game, refashioned out of an...
View ArticleSapiosexual Seeks Same: A New Lexicon Enters Online Dating Mainstream
This post was updated at 11:10 a.m. ET for clarity.How would you — or do you — identify on online dating sites? Gay? Straight? Bisexual?
View ArticleCharismatic Singer Joe Cocker Dies At 70
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Bess Meyerson Was An Author, TV Personality, Civil Servant
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'La Dolce Vita' Star Dies At 83
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View ArticleAnd The Oscar Goes To ... Wait, Who Hasn't Had One In A While?
"The right actors win Oscars, but for the wrong roles," Katherine Hepburn once said.The Motion Picture Academy has a history of rewarding stars for less-than-celestial performances, and this week's...
View ArticleThe Unsung Heroine Who Helped Shape 'Suicide Squad'
Happily, the creators behind the 1980s comic series Suicide Squad have been getting a fair amount of attention with the release of the splashy new movie it has inspired. Writer John Ostrander created...
View ArticleHe Died At 32, But A Young Artist Lives On In LA's Underground Museum
It's a sweltering night in July and Los Angeles' Underground Museum is packed. "It's crowded and hot, but it feels really good," says vistor Jazzi McGilbert. Like much of the crowd, McGilbert is young,...
View ArticleFood For Thought: 10 Restaurants That Shaped America
When's the last time you ordered turtle when you went out to eat? Most of us would probably turn it down in an instant if we saw it on a menu. But terrapin was a completely normal entree for diners at...
View ArticleActing For Film Or Acting For Life? Doc Tells Story Of Kim Jong Il's Captives
It's well-known that Dear Leader was crazy about movies. What's less known — at least in the West — is that infamous North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il was so crazy about them that he kidnapped a South...
View ArticleAction Film Director Park Chan-Wook Transports Erotic 'Handmaiden' To 1930s...
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View Article'Soup For Syria': Chefs Share Recipes To Raise Funds For Refugees
Barbara Massaad was watching a TV news program about the plight of Syrian refugees from her apartment in the suburbs of Beirut when she decided to visit a refugee camp herself. "I just wanted to go and...
View ArticleDolls With Disabilities Escape The Toy Hospital, Go Mainstream
When Dominika Tamley chose "Isebelle," her American Girl doll, she picked a toy whose hair and eye color matched her own. But the 10-year-old is quick to point out that's not the only way the doll...
View ArticleZsa Zsa Gabor, An Icon Of Camp, Glitz And Glam, Dies At 99
Updated at 11:41 p.m. ET Zsa Zsa Gabor — the woman who probably inspired the term "famous for being famous" — died on Sunday, according to multiple media outlets. She was 99 years old, just two months...
View ArticleFamously Eccentric Comedian Irwin Corey Dies At 102
Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Irwin Corey described himself as the world's foremost authority. The famously eccentric comedian was kidding of course, but it took a special...
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