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

1 year, 11 months ago

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

NPR

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 ago, given that that's when it topped the Billboard charts. Sponsor Message Skinamarink doesn't really have a plot, but it's essentially like you're seeing the movie through the eyes of a child in this scary, dark house. NPR's Teresa Xie adapted the Pop Culture Happy Hour segment "What's Making Us Happy" into a digital page.

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

1 week, 5 days ago

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

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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 scrolling, listening and gaming

1 month 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. …

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

1 month, 2 weeks ago

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

NPR

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

1 month, 3 weeks 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

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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 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

3 months, 1 week 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

3 months, 2 weeks ago

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

NPR

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 viewing and listening

6 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 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

6 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, 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

7 months 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

7 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 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

7 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 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

7 months, 3 weeks ago

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

NPR

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

7 months, 4 weeks ago

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

NPR

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

1 year, 11 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 for your weekend reading and viewing

2 years, 11 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 …

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It's an A+ idea to watch a B-list '90s romantic comedy this weekend

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'A way to be happy' book review: Into the unpredictability of the quotidian

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'A way to be happy' book review: Into the unpredictability of the quotidian

New Indian Express

The Canadian novelist Caroline Adderson’s latest collection of short stories A Way to Be Happy is immensely refreshing, as it not only explores the uniqueness but also showcases the unpredictability of the everyday in a manner only a few writers manage to do. In the first story titled All Our Auld Acquaintances Are Gone, Adderson wonderfully describes—very much like a …

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Amid the gloom, doom and anger, can joy win voters over?

4 months, 2 weeks ago

Amid the gloom, doom and anger, can joy win voters over?

LA Times

Tim Walz, shown at a Wisconsin rally, has extended his meme-making role by bringing a decidedly lighter tone to the race since joining the Democratic ticket. 2 in part because of his framing of former President Trump and Ohio Sen. JD Vance as “weird,” Walz extended his meme-making role by bringing a decidedly lighter tone to the presidential race. Picking …

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Maren Morris is ‘happy to be the B in LGBTQ+,’ she says in Pride Month post

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Maren Morris is ‘happy to be the B in LGBTQ+,’ she says in Pride Month post

LA Times

Maren Morris just upped the ante in her support of the LGBTQ+ community by declaring herself the “B” in that acronym. “Happy to be the B in LGBTQ+,” the singer captioned an Instagram post Sunday that featured her waving a miniature Pride Progress flag onstage at a concert in Phoenix. Though this is the first time “The Middle” singer has …

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What we learned from teaching a course on the science of happiness

Deccan Chronicle

Bristol, Mar 26 When you deliver a university course that makes students happier, everybody wants to know what the secret is. It was for this reason we began teaching the science of happiness course at the University of Bristol in 2019 – to counter some worrying downward trends. Every year we find increases of around 10-15% on measures of students’ …

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Can a picture make you happy? We asked photographers and here's what they sent us

9 months ago

Can a picture make you happy? We asked photographers and here's what they sent us

NPR

Can a picture make you happy? We asked photographers and here's what they sent us Enlarge this image toggle caption Amnon Gutman for NPR, Fatma Fahmy for NPR, Rory Doyle for NPR Amnon Gutman for NPR, Fatma Fahmy for NPR, Rory Doyle for NPR March 20 is a day dedicated to joy! Happy blues Enlarge this image toggle caption Rory …

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Want To Feel Happier? Try Out These 7 'Micro-Acts' Of Joy

10 months, 3 weeks ago

Want To Feel Happier? Try Out These 7 'Micro-Acts' Of Joy

Huff Post

Klaus Vedfelt via Getty Images Reflecting on your values and leaning into a sense of awe are just two ways to feel more joy. A key way to do this is through daily, small moments — what some experts are calling “micro-acts.” The idea was coined by folks behind The Big Joy Project, a joint effort between researchers at the …

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Opinion: The joy in Sam Smith’s unabashed depiction of queer sexuality

1 year, 10 months ago

Opinion: The joy in Sam Smith’s unabashed depiction of queer sexuality

CNN

Editor’s Note: Hannah Ryan is an associate producer for CNN International who has previously written on LGBTQ rights. CNN — Sam Smith’s recent music video for their song “I’m Not Here To Make Friends” is a cacophony of queer delights. Smith’s video — and the song’s unfiltered embrace of queer sexual liberation — follows in a long line of tradition …

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Samara Joy's polyphonic stardom

1 year, 10 months ago

Samara Joy's polyphonic stardom

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Sam Smith opens up about being ‘afraid’ to express ‘happiness’ and sexuality during early career

1 year, 11 months ago

Sam Smith opens up about being ‘afraid’ to express ‘happiness’ and sexuality during early career

The Independent

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From gospel to TikTok to vocal big shot: the rise of Samara Joy

2 years, 3 months ago

From gospel to TikTok to vocal big shot: the rise of Samara Joy

NPR

From gospel to TikTok to vocal big shot: the rise of Samara Joy Enlarge this image toggle caption Meredith Truax Meredith Truax Jazz Night in America celebrates two-time 2023 Grammy-winner Samara Joy, an artist now in full bloom who was nurtured as a seedling by her tight-knit family and community in the Bronx. Sponsor Message Joy blurred the boundaries between …

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FEARNE COTTON tells Kate Spicer why walking away from stardom was easy

2 years, 4 months ago

FEARNE COTTON tells Kate Spicer why walking away from stardom was easy

Daily Mail

After 20 years as a successful TV presenter and broadcaster, Fearne Cotton couldn't hide her battle with depression and bulimia any longer. Jewellery, Bee Goddess Six years on, Cotton has 11.5 million social media followers and is bang on the zeitgeist with her Happy Place wellness brand, which has spawned four days of upcoming festivals in London and Cheshire. There's …

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Joy is just as profound as pain

3 years ago

Joy is just as profound as pain

CNN

Washington CNN — A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Race Deconstructed newsletter. “I hope that his story empowers other Black men to be vulnerable, too.” Phoebe Bridgers Rich Fury/Getty Images for Visible Joy is community At the height of the pandemic, Priya Krishnakumar, an editor on CNN’s visual news desk covering race, equality and policing, sought solace in …

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Joy division: Would you pursue a course in Happiness Studies?

3 years, 8 months ago

Joy division: Would you pursue a course in Happiness Studies?

Hindustan Times

At Harvard University in 2006, the most popular course wasn’t in law, medicine, business, even the arts. Its professor, Tal Ben-Shahar, moved on from Harvard in 2008, crafted leadership-development programmes, and eventually set up the Happiness Studies Academy in 2016, where he also offers a certificate course in Happiness Studies online. I’m halfway through the pre-recorded lectures and live webinars, …

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Design’s new happy mood

4 years, 4 months ago

Design’s new happy mood

BBC

Design’s new happy mood Tekla Evelina Severin The design for the Salt of Palmar by Camille Walala is bold and fun There’s a wave of positivity, fun and risk-taking emerging across the globe. They presented their signature bold colours, graphic patterns and geometric shapes for a recent exhibition called All In at Seoul’s Avenue L. Luke O’Donovan Yinka Ilori’s Happy …

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How finding joy and calm in a busy world can improve your mental health

4 years, 5 months ago

How finding joy and calm in a busy world can improve your mental health

ABC

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