This year's Super Bowl featured an exciting game in which the Kansas City Chiefs beat San Francisco 49ers. It also featured an attention-grabbing halftime show from Usher, many Taylor Swift sightings, and a big announcement during the commercials: Beyoncé is releasing a new album in March, and she just dropped two new singles.
Carl Weathers, the NFL player-turned-actor, made a posthumous cameo in a Super Bowl ad for the online gambling company FanDuel. The company reworked it after he died earlier this month.
Donald Trump said on social media that copyright legislation he signed while president had made Swift "so much money," arguing it would be "disloyal" of her to endorse Biden as many are speculating.
Singer-songwriter Alicia Keys and her husband, rapper/producer Kasseem Dean are also art collectors. A new exhibition highlights the contemporary Black artists who've caught their attention.
In 2017, Lena Waithe became the first Black woman to win an Emmy for comedy writing. Since then, she's done it all, from acting to producing. She made The Chi, but what does she know about Guy Fieri?
This week, A Thousand and One producer and Emmy winner Lena Waithe joins panelists Adam Burke, Negin Farsad, and Maz Jobrani to talk Blockbuster, Jennifer Aniston, and Guy Fieri.
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These books, including Roxana Robinson's Leaving, which comes out on Tuesday, all concern older women — some in their 60s, others in their 90s — who fully intend to enjoy all their years.
This weekend, Vegas hit the jackpot. For the first time ever, Sin City will host the Super Bowl; and the halftime headliner is the current Vegas residency darling - Usher. But, NPR Senior Editor Bilal Qureshi says this royal flush was years in the making. Bilal joins host Brittany Luse to share his experience covering the city's journey from 'Old Vegas' to 'New Vegas,' as new hotels, concert venues, and artist residencies bring Vegas to a new market - millennials.
Then, Brittany turns her sights to the Stanley Cup. No, not the hockey championship but the colorful tumblers taking the internet by storm. The frenzy for a new collectible is never surprising, but the very thing that goes inside it - water - has The Wellness Trap author Christy Harrison wondering if this is just another extension of diet and wellness culture gone sideways.
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It says a man can be prosecuted for carrying a gun in public without a permit citing "The Wire" and invokes the "spirit of Aloha" in rebuke of a U.S. Supreme Court decision that expanded gun rights.
As a teenager, Laura Chinn was in the room as her older brother died from brain cancer. It was the same Florida hospice where Terri Schiavo received care. The experience inspired Chinn's new film.
Each week, Pop Culture Happy Hour guests and hosts share what's bringing them joy. This week: the movie Sniper: G.R.I.T., the book Get the Picture, and the shows The Traitors: UK and Blue Eye Samurai.
The rappers say that Walmart and Post Consumer Foods neglected their cereal brand and intentionally hid it in stockrooms to prevent it from being sold to customers.