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1 week ago | flipboard.com | Glen Weldon |Neda Ulaby |Roxana Hadadi |Liz Metzger |Jessica Reedy |Mike Katzif

3 hours agoAimee Lou Wood calls SNL parody 'mean and unfunny'The White Lotus star Aimee Lou Wood has called a Saturday Night Live (SNL) sketch that impersonated her using exaggerated prosthetic teeth "mean and unfunny". The British actress said the US comedy programme "punched down" on her and suggested the sketch was misogynistic.

1 week ago | wshu.org | Aisha Harris |Stephen Thompson |Glen Weldon

At a certain point, most of us settle into a groove with our pop culture consumption. We know what we love and what we're not into. But sometimes, all it takes is one great outlier or a willingness to step outside our comfort zone to make us reconsider what we don't like. Today we're talking about our pop culture revelations, including Friday Night Lights, Train to Busan, the poetry of Mary Oliver, and Watchmen. Arts & Culture arts & culturePop CultureTelevisionmoviesPoetry

1 month ago | npr.org | Aisha Harris |Glen Weldon |Monica Castillo |Liz Metzger |Mike Katzif |Jessica Reedy

'Anora' is the wild rom-dramedy we didn't know we wanted Download Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1239156795/1267994699" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Mark Eydelshteyn and Mikey Madison in Anora. Neon hide caption toggle caption Neon Anora recently cleaned up at this year's Oscars, winning five awards, including best picture.

1 month ago | boisestatepublicradio.org | Kristen Meinzer |Dolly Parton |Glen Weldon

This week, another long, weird awards season ended on a perfectly pleasant note, a certain "find the bad guy" reality show ended on a hugely satisfying note, and Telly Monster's perpetual state of anxiety was cruelly vindicated. Here's what NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour crew was paying attention to — and what you should check out this weekend.

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Kristen Meinzer |Jeff Yang |Glen Weldon |Linda Holmes |Aisha Harris

1 hour agoWhen Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa were found dead along with their dog last month in their Santa Fe, New Mexico home, the community was shocked. Their deaths seemed a mystery when they were found by maintenance workers on Feb. 26. Arakawa's body was found in a bathroom and showed …