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Working: How Editor Tracy Sherrod is Amplifying...
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Thirst Aid Kit: Hot Men In Bad Movies
Suffering through bad movies for good eye candy is worth it.
49 min
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How To!: How To Write a Bestseller with Taffy B...
Unconventional wisdom from successful novelist Taffy Brodesser-Akner.
29 min
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Hit Parade: Building a Herstory Edition
Sarah McLachlan harnessed this energy into an all-woman tour she dubbed Lilith Fair. Its string of sellouts from 1997 to ’99 affirmed women’s clout in the decade of grunge-and-gangsta.
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Working: Jasmine Guillory’s Romance Novels Show...
40 min
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Spoiler Specials: Da 5 Bloods
Dana Stevens and Aisha Harris spoil Spike Lee’s film about Black Vietnam War veterans.
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Thirst Aid Kit: The Adventure Known As John Boy...
One of our Space Boyfriends has been biding his time — and we love the results
49 min
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Culture Gabfest: Toppling Teddy Roosevelt
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Working: The Vulnerability of Memoir Writing, W...
49 min
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Thirst Aid Kit: A Dog Called Rex (with Jason Ma...
Jason Matzoukas really knows how to make us blush.
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Working: Cole Escola Provides the Perfect Comed...
46 min
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Spoiler Specials: The Hunger Games Prequel: The...
President Snow’s origin story departs from the YA dystopian genre shaped by the Hunger Games trilogy.
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Decoder Ring: The Metrosexual
In 2003, the word "metrosexual", meaning a well-groomed heterosexual man, exploded all over the English lexicon. It invaded the news, TV, and even American politics.
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Culture Gabfest: Black Lives Matter
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Working: How YouTuber Adam Ragusea Learned to T...
45 min
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Working: Documentary Theater From Interviews to...
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Spoiler Specials: The Lovebirds
Issa Rae and Kumail Nanjiani’s murder mystery rom-com.
39 min
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Hit Parade: Shake It Like a Polaroid Picture Ed...
Outkast is inarguably one of the most important acts in hip hop and pop music history, but their impressive chart runs, and the brand of Atlanta hip hop they championed, was far from inevitable.
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Culture Gabfest: Never Will I Ever Beef with Ch...
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Working: How Curator Sheena Wagstaff Chooses Ar...
40 min
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Outward: The Queerness of Quarantine Bubbles
We’ve spent our whole lives negotiating contested spaces.
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Working: Alison Wright Explains How Actors Get ...
39 min
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Spoiler Specials: Hollywood
Ryan Murphy’s revisionist Netflix series trades history for self-serving fantasy.
49 min
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Culture Gabfest: Normal People?
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Decoder Ring: Gotta Get Down on Friday
Rebecca Black's music video for Friday was Youtube's most watched video of 2011, thrusting the thirteen-year-old Rebecca into a very harsh spotlight.
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