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Back to SearchBest Of: Flea / Nick Offerman
Flea co-founded the Red Hot Chili Peppers in 1982. The bass/trumpet player spoke with Terry Gross about how his music and his life have changed. “Tha…
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Remembering symphony conductor Michael Tilson Thomas
We remember conductor, composer and musician Michael Tilson Thomas, who died April 22 at age 81. He was a longtime music director of The San Francisc…
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Richard Gadd is looking at the ‘dangers of repression’
‘Baby Reindeer’ was an unexpected hit on Netflix in 2024. Now its creator and star is back with ‘Half Man,’ an HBO series about two boys who become b…
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How Trump's EPA head has transformed the agency — and sided with polluters
‘New Yorker’ staff writer Elizabeth Kolbert says EPA chief Lee Zeldin has rescinded regulations, cut or eliminated departments and terminated the job…
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Flea’s wild path from childhood to Chili Peppers
The Red Hot Chili Peppers have sold tens of millions of albums and taken home multiple Grammy Awards. Now in his 60s, more than four decades after th…
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Nick Offerman gets an emotional arc
Best known for his role as Ron Swanson on ‘Parks and Recreation,’ Nick Offerman plays a former professional wrestler reconnecting with his estranged …
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Best Of: Malala Yousafzai / Oscar Isaac
Malala Yousafzai was 15 when a Taliban gunman shot her for advocating for girls' education in her native Pakistan. She understood that she was a targ…
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‘Schmigadoon!’ co-creator Cinco Paul satirizes Broadway
‘Schmigadoon!’ is now on Broadway. Adapted from the Apple TV series that lovingly satirized musicals of the ‘40s and ‘50s, we’ll hear from the co-cre…
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The spy network that took on America's Nazi groups
In ‘The Secret War Against Hate,’ historian Steven J. Ross details the racist, anti-Semitic groups that sprung up after WWII, in the later half of th…
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Inside Linda McMahon's effort to dismantle the Dept. of Education
A former pro-wrestling executive, Linda McMahon is now the Education Secretary Trump tasked with abolishing her agency. ‘New Yorker’ staff writer Zac…
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