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It’s about the things we obsess over in our free time: TV and movies, music and celebrities, Internet and memes, and the people who make it. No topic is too big or small.

It’s about the things we obsess over in our free time: TV and movies, music and celebrities, Internet and memes, and the people who make it. No topic is too big or small. And nothing’s off limits.

Weekend film reviews: ‘Joker: Folie a Deux,’ ‘Salem’s Lot’

Critics review the latest film releases: “Joker: Folie a Deux,” “Salem's Lot,” “It's What's Inside,” and “The Outrun.”

Kate Winslet laughs off the Hollywood higher-ups who dismissed her ‘little Lee’ project

Oscar-winner Kate Winslet gets candid about working through producorial challenges to bring her new film “Lee” — which she also stars in — to the big screen.

How baking helps Kim-Joy reduce stress, unlock creativity, and stay sane

For Kim-Joy, one of The Great British Bake Off's most memorable contestants, baking isn't just about flavor or cuteness — it's also about mental health.

Dates, still recovering from last year's rainfall, return to farmers markets

Alvaro Bautista recovers more than half of his date harvest, which perished in last year's rain, while Companion, a new restaurant in Venice, opens with a Quarter Sheets alum.

Julie Guthman critiques tech entrepreneurs whose proposed food system "fixes" ignore the underlying problems they claim to address.

from Good Food

To tell the stories of the 83,000 people living in Zaatari, Karen Fisher collected their recipes.

from Good Food

Can civility influence voters in the Trump era? Has Biden’s policy in the Middle East backfired? Plus, the United States hits a bleak milestone on executions.

from Left, Right & Center

At a time of book bans and the withholding of critically important struggles in our history, our education system has increasingly failed to provide our young with the tools to become…

from Scheer Intelligence

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KCRW’s acclaimed music documentary podcast, Lost Notes, is back for its fourth season!

Lost Notes

KCRW’s acclaimed music documentary podcast, Lost Notes, is back for its fourth season!

 Are your friends sick of hearing about your latest hookups and troublesome relationships? We’re not. KCRW is here to ask, How’s Your Sex Life?

How’s Your Sex Life?

Are your friends sick of hearing about your latest hookups and troublesome relationships? We’re not. KCRW is here to ask, How’s Your Sex Life?

 Evan Kleiman explores current events, social phenomena, history and culture through the lens of food.

Good Food

Evan Kleiman explores current events, social phenomena, history and culture through the lens of food.

 In-depth interviews with the most innovative & influential people in entertainment, art, and pop culture. Hosted by film critic Elvis Mitchell, at KCRW.com.

The Treatment

In-depth interviews with the most innovative & influential people in entertainment, art, and pop culture. Hosted by film critic Elvis Mitchell, at KCRW.com.

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The latest movie releases include Joker: Folie a Deux, Salem's Lot, It's What's Inside, and The Outrun.

Weekend film reviews: ‘Joker: Folie a Deux,’ ‘Salem’s Lot’

The latest movie releases include Joker: Folie a Deux, Salem's Lot, It's What's Inside, and The Outrun.

from Weekend Film Reviews

With stories and hundreds of photos, “Also on View: Unique and Unexpected Museums of Greater Los Angeles” explores the region’s lesser-known museums.

Want to visit the +750 museums in LA? New book shows you how

With stories and hundreds of photos, “Also on View: Unique and Unexpected Museums of Greater Los Angeles” explores the region’s lesser-known museums.

from KCRW Features

Tzimmes is the Yiddish word for making a big fuss. It’s also a stew of sweet root vegetables and dried fruit, often served for Rosh Hashanah.

It’s a tzimmes! When making a fuss is a good thing

Tzimmes is the Yiddish word for making a big fuss. It’s also a stew of sweet root vegetables and dried fruit, often served for Rosh Hashanah.

from Press Play with Madeleine Brand

Have you ever been catfished on a date, ghosted, or worse? We want to hear all about your bad dates.

Send us your dating horror stories!

Have you ever been catfished on a date, ghosted, or worse? We want to hear all about your bad dates.

from How’s Your Sex Life?

This week Jamil Zaki, professor of Psychology at Stanford University and author of “Hope for Cynics: The Surprising Science of Human Goodness,” talks about our need to rebrand hope as…

Midweek Reset: Rebranding Hope

This week Jamil Zaki, professor of Psychology at Stanford University and author of “Hope for Cynics: The Surprising Science of Human Goodness,” talks about our need to rebrand hope as…

from Life Examined

NPR Live Coverage - CBS News Vice Presidential Debate

CBS News Vice Presidential Debate

NPR Live Coverage - CBS News Vice Presidential Debate

from NPR

Breast reduction surgeries have surged 64% since 2019, driven by younger women seeking health benefits and challenging beauty standards.

Less is more: The new wave of breast reduction surgeries

Breast reduction surgeries have surged 64% since 2019, driven by younger women seeking health benefits and challenging beauty standards.

from Press Play with Madeleine Brand

Kim Gordon is out with a second solo record, which combines her signature noisy sound with distorted trap beats and stream-of-consciousness rapping.

Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon is still experimenting artistically at 70

Kim Gordon is out with a second solo record, which combines her signature noisy sound with distorted trap beats and stream-of-consciousness rapping.

from Press Play with Madeleine Brand

Kris Kristofferson, an acclaimed singer-songwriter in Nashville and a movie star in Hollywood, died on Saturday at his home in Maui. He was 88 years old.

Remembering Kris Kristofferson, who changed country music

Kris Kristofferson, an acclaimed singer-songwriter in Nashville and a movie star in Hollywood, died on Saturday at his home in Maui. He was 88 years old.

from Press Play with Madeleine Brand

By proving how much money Little Arabia brings to Orange County, advocates got Anaheim to post highway signs pointing travelers to that ethnic neighborhood.

Anaheim’s ‘Little Arabia’ gets signage after decades of advocacy

By proving how much money Little Arabia brings to Orange County, advocates got Anaheim to post highway signs pointing travelers to that ethnic neighborhood.

from KCRW Features

Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience Francesca Happe talks about what she has learned over the course of 30 years researching and working with autism.

Autism is a different way of being, not a disease

Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience Francesca Happe talks about what she has learned over the course of 30 years researching and working with autism.

from Life Examined

Podcast host and executive producer of The Loudest Girl In The World Lauren Ober chronicles her later-in-life autism diagnosis and how it changed her life.

Discovering your autistism later in life

Podcast host and executive producer of The Loudest Girl In The World Lauren Ober chronicles her later-in-life autism diagnosis and how it changed her life.

from Life Examined

Finding an effective treatment can be tricky, but it need not be a pill.

The marketing of depression

Finding an effective treatment can be tricky, but it need not be a pill.

from Second Opinion

Emmy and Oscar-winner Kate Winslet joins for a long conversation about her Lee Miller biopic, portraying PTSD, and continuing to challenge herself as an actor.

Kate Winslet’s candid and expansive chat with Elvis Mitchell

Emmy and Oscar-winner Kate Winslet joins for a long conversation about her Lee Miller biopic, portraying PTSD, and continuing to challenge herself as an actor.

from The Treatment