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In less than three days, four to five months-worth of rain drenched western North Carolina as the remnants of Hurricane Helene tore across the southeast U.S. Dozens of people were killed and entire towns were flooded. Many of the hardest-hit communities are rural with less than 1,000 residents. Marshall, N.C., was built along railroad tracks on the banks of the French Broad River. |
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Check out what NPR is watching, reading and listening to this weekend: 🍿Movies: Filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola speaks with NPR’s Mandalit del Barco about Megalopolis, a film he’s worked on since the 1980s. It pits the visionary architect Cesar Catilina against Franklyn Cicero, the Mayor of New Rome, in a society plagued with greed and political division. 📺 TV: Netflix’s new series Nobody Wants This, starring Kristen Bell and Adam Brody, doesn’t only offer rom-com banter. It also has some pretty deep questions about faith and compatibility. 📚 Books: SNL star Kate McKinnon says her first book, The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette For Young Ladies of Mad Science, is part of her “private mission to give a wink and a nod” to young people who might feel “different” like she did growing up. 🎵 Music: Rapper Future hit #1 this week on the Billboard 200 albums chart for the third time in the last six months with his latest album Mixtape Pluto. 🎭 Theater: The acclaimed Edinburgh Fringe show, Fight Night, features five actors who compete to win over the audience during a 90-minute performance. Audience members are given a device to anonymously vote in different rounds and answer questions about their age, income, and the qualities they value in a leader. ❓Quiz: They debated, wrote memoirs, got inaugurated and turned 100. What else did political people do? Put your knowledge to the test and see if you can beat my near-perfect score. |
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Who's the world's greatest musician? Quick-- if we’d asked you to rattle off your list of the world’s greatest musicians, who’d come to mind? Picking out ‘The Greatest’ might be a tall order, but NPR Music asks: is the culture ready to really think - or rethink - who we call great? A new book, titled How Women Made Music: A Revolutionary History from NPR Music, refocuses the canon on stories and voices that have been overlooked, marginalized or hidden in plain sight. The goal? Free the music of women and others who don't fit the dominant straight-white-male paradigm from special categories, and put it at the center, where major conversations about culture live. From Beyoncé to Odetta, Taylor Swift to Joan Baez, Joan Jett to Dolly Parton, it’s 52 years worth of interviews with legendary musicians meant to overturn, to question, to challenge, and - especially - to make you think. For the music-lover in your life - and for the music-lover in you - it’s available to pre-order now, both in hardcover and audiobook, all at the link here. |
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| The U.K. has become the first major economy to quit coal power, a primary contributor to global warming. It’s a milestone for the country that was the first to use the fossil fuel. |
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| Rust is scheduled to debut at a film festival in Poland, three years after the fatal on-set shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. The screening aims to honor her. |
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| Country music star Garth Brooks faces accusations of rape and sexual assault. The woman who filed the lawsuit yesterday alleges she was repeatedly harassed by him and was raped in 2019 while working as his makeup artist. |
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