What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend scrolling, listening and gaming
4 months, 1 week ago

What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend scrolling, listening and gaming

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What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend scrolling, listening and gaming toggle caption Michael Loccisano/Getty Images This week, people wondered if Netflix really can manage NFL games on Christmas, somebody paid over $6 million for the right to tape fruit to the wall and call it art and the National Book Awards shone some light on good writing. Here's what NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour crew was paying attention to — and what you should check out this weekend. — Glen Weldon Sponsor Message More recommendations from the Pop Culture Happy Hour newsletter by Linda Holmes I have been playing a lot of Escape Simulator recently. Dhanika Pineda adapted the Pop Culture Happy Hour segment "What's Making Us Happy" for the Web.

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What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing and listening
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What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing and listening

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What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing and listening toggle caption Janus Films This week, the Screen Actors Guild Awards surprised us, further complicating an already complicated Oscar race. Here's what NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour crew was paying attention to — and what you should check out this weekend. — Aisha Harris Sponsor Message More recommendations …

What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing and gaming
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What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing and gaming

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What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing and gaming toggle caption Screenshot by NPR/Tuxedo Labs, Saber Interactive This week, the Oscars drama would not quit, a new Fantastic Four movie maybe was not doomed and the Super Bowl loomed. Here's what NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour crew was paying attention to — and what you should check …

What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing and listening
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What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing and listening

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What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing and listening toggle caption Apple TV+ This week, everything was just a Super Bowl ad, the Oscar race stayed controversial, and it was the week when the Mona Lisa was on the move. Here's what NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour crew was paying attention to — and what you should …

What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing and listening
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What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing and listening

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What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing and listening toggle caption Corinne Cumming/HBO This week, Sundance was back, the Oscars struggled to meet the moment, and the use of AI in film continued to raise questions. Here's what NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour crew was paying attention to — and what you should check out this weekend. …

What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing and reading
2 months, 2 weeks ago

What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing and reading

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What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing and reading This week, a beloved and strange journey continued, a guy who once seemed to be on the ropes continued riding high, and we remembered a visionary unlike any other. Here's what NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour crew was paying attention to — and what you should check out …

What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing, reading and listening
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What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing, reading and listening

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What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing, reading and listening toggle caption Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images This week, Nikki Glaser killed it, one year after Jo Koy um … didn't, the Emmys rejected double-dipping as strongly as your mom rejects double-dipping, the SAG Awards fed more grist into an awards-discourse mill already swamped with it, and …

What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing, listening and gaming
3 months ago

What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing, listening and gaming

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What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing, listening and gaming toggle caption Netflix This week, the public domain grew larger. Here's what NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour crew was paying attention to — and what you should check out this weekend. The film really shows how this is a very specific genre — it's mostly white guys, …

What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend snacking, viewing and listening
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What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend snacking, viewing and listening

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What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend snacking, viewing and listening toggle caption Sandy Morris/HBO This week, live-action remakes kept coming, labor conditions might be changing in reality TV and an iconic poet left us. Here's what NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour crew was paying attention to — and what you should check out this weekend. — Bob …

What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing
3 months, 4 weeks ago

What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing

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What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing toggle caption HBO This week, "brain rot" became Oxford's word of the year, Dick Van Dyke continued to be awesome, and movies showed some life in theaters. Here's what NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour crew was paying attention to — and what you should check out this weekend. — Aisha …

What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing and listening
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What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing and listening

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What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing and listening toggle caption Netflix This week, The Onion made a big purchase, My Little Pony became a hall of famer, and we bid farewell to a dance legend. Here's what NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour crew was paying attention to — and what you should check out this weekend. …

What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing and listening
4 months, 3 weeks ago

What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing and listening

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What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing and listening toggle caption Netflix This week, there was definitely news. Here's what NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour crew was paying attention to — and what you should check out this weekend. — Kristen Meinzer Sponsor Message More recommendations from the Pop Culture Happy Hour newsletter by Linda Holmes This …

What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend raking, listening and gaming
5 months ago

What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend raking, listening and gaming

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What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend raking, listening and gaming toggle caption Patrick Pleul/AFP via Getty Images This week, statues proliferated, we lost a great actor, and being animated was no protection from being incarcerated. Here's what NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour crew was paying attention to — and what you should check out this weekend. — …

What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing and listening
5 months, 2 weeks ago

What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing and listening

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What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing and listening toggle caption Arturo Holmes/Getty Images This week, a new concept album told an old story, a veteran of musicals took her last bow, and we learned that something that could never be a movie is going to be a movie. Here's what NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour crew …

What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing and reading
6 months, 3 weeks ago

What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing and reading

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What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing and reading toggle caption Starz This week, the VMAs continued to be the VMAs, Jon Bon Jovi was a mensch, and Taylor Swift made her choice. Here's what NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour crew was paying attention to — and what you should check out this weekend. — Reanna Cruz …

What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing, listening and gaming
6 months, 4 weeks ago

What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing, listening and gaming

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What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing, listening and gaming This week, Dancing With the Stars decided to redefine "stars," eating hot dogs continued to be, somehow, a sport, and that Oasis reunion was not as smooth as. Here's what NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour crew was paying attention to — and what you should check out …

What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend reading and listening
8 months, 1 week ago

What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend reading and listening

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What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend reading and listening This week, the Olympics got underway, we glimpsed a high-profile attempt to sound like an icon, and Disneyland avoided a strike. Here's what NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour crew was paying attention to — and what you should check out this weekend. — Joelle Monique More recommendations from …

What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing and listening
9 months, 1 week ago

What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing and listening

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What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing and listening toggle caption Valerie Macon/AFP via Getty Images This week, Justin Timberlake was arrested, Donald Sutherland left us and we found out about a Spaceballs. Here's what NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour crew was paying attention to — and what you should check out this weekend. — Bob Mondello …

What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing and listening
10 months ago

What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing and listening

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What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing and listening toggle caption -/Netflix This week, Olivia Pope and a whole bunch of other potential murder suspects were welcomed into the Knives Out universe, the MLB’s history books became a little more legitimate, and a theater legend announced she’d be stepping into the shoes of an iconic Broadway role. …

What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend reading and listening
10 months, 1 week ago

What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend reading and listening

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What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend reading and listening toggle caption Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for Coachella This week, we girded ourselves for the possibility of bidding “Cheddar, Bye!” to Cheddar Bay. Here's what NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour crew was paying attention to — and what you should check out this weekend. — Glen Weldon More recommendations …

What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing and listening
10 months, 2 weeks ago

What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing and listening

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What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing and listening Enlarge this image toggle caption Courtesy of the artist Courtesy of the artist This week, queens kept resigning, a story that seemed to be over wasn't over, and a big movie came to Cannes — and Cannes delivered the controversy. Here's what NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour crew …

What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing and reading
10 months, 3 weeks ago

What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing and reading

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What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing and reading Enlarge this image toggle caption Casey Durkin/Bravo Casey Durkin/Bravo This week, a love story got a sequel, another paper company lined up for its big moment, and a Chicago music legend was remembered. Here's what NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour crew was paying attention to — and what …

What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing, listening and gaming
11 months ago

What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing, listening and gaming

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What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing, listening and gaming Enlarge this image toggle caption Daniel McFadden/Warner Bros. Daniel McFadden/Warner Bros. Here's what NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour crew was paying attention to — and what you should check out this weekend. — Linda Holmes More recommendations from the Pop Culture Happy Hour newsletter by Linda Holmes …

What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing, listening and gaming
11 months, 1 week ago

What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing, listening and gaming

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What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing, listening and gaming Enlarge this image toggle caption Netflix Netflix This week, musicians pushed back about ticketing, TikTok was the subject of legislation, and Gatsby was on Broadway. Here's what NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour crew was paying attention to — and what you should check out this weekend. — …

What's making us happy: A guide to your weekend viewing
2 years, 2 months ago

What's making us happy: A guide to your weekend viewing

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What's making us happy: A guide to your weekend viewing Enlarge this image toggle caption SHUDDER SHUDDER This week, we snuck a peek at Sundance Film Festival, watched another "screenlife" horror movie, and got behind our favorite pop culture icons. "Unholy" by Sam Smith and Kim Petras YouTube This is a song that I should have been championing three months …

What's making us happy: A guide to your weekend viewing
2 years, 2 months ago

What's making us happy: A guide to your weekend viewing

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What's making us happy: A guide to your weekend viewing Enlarge this image toggle caption Kumiko Tsuchiya/Netflix Kumiko Tsuchiya/Netflix This week, we watched The Golden Globes attempt to make a comeback, learned how to look at art from a new perspective, and got spooked by a fictional high-tech doll who can kill. Here's what the NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour …

What's making us happy: A guide to your weekend listening.
2 years, 3 months ago

What's making us happy: A guide to your weekend listening.

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What's making us happy: A guide to your weekend listening. Here's what the NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour crew was paying attention to — and what you should check out this weekend. — Chris Klimek NPR Best Music of 2022 and "Mon Amour" by Stromae I'm going to combine music list making and self-promotion by mentioning NPR Music's year-end Best …

What's making us happy: A guide for your weekend watching, reading and listening
2 years, 11 months ago

What's making us happy: A guide for your weekend watching, reading and listening

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What's making us happy: A guide for your weekend watching, reading and listening Enlarge this image toggle caption HBO Max HBO Max This week, Donald Glover interviewed himself, South Carolina beat UConn to win the 2022 NCAA women's basketball championship, and Ketanji Brown Jackson was confirmed to the Supreme Court. —Danny Hensel Sponsor Message Joan Shelley's new song "The Spur" …

What's making us happy: A guide for your weekend reading and viewing
3 years, 2 months ago

What's making us happy: A guide for your weekend reading and viewing

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What's making us happy: A guide for your weekend reading and viewing Enlarge this image toggle caption Netflix Netflix This week, TikTok star Noodle the pug and his owner Jonathan Graziano announced the 13–year-old dog will get his very own picture book. Here's what NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour crew was paying attention to — and what you should check …

Pop Culture Happy Hour: Of True Tales, Fantasy Adventures And Happy-Making Things
12 years, 9 months ago

Pop Culture Happy Hour: Of True Tales, Fantasy Adventures And Happy-Making Things

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Pop Culture Happy Hour: Of True Tales, Fantasy Adventures And Happy-Making Things Listen To Pop Culture Happy Hour Listen · 44:30 44:30 NPR With fearless leader Linda Holmes pounding the pavement at the annual Silverdocs documentary extravaganza, we thought we'd chat about some of our own favorite nonfiction feature films — true tales of obsessions, outrages and tragedies, not to …

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