Weekend Edition Sunday

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro plays the puzzle with <em>New York Times</em> crossword editor Will Shortz and KUT listener Cory Sureck of Austin, Texas.

Latino star Rubén Blades teams up with Making Movies to addresses themes of injustices in the collaborative album <em>Ameri'kana</em>.

If you got a manicure lately, chances are your nail salon was run by Vietnamese entrepreneurs. In <em>Nailed It, </em>director Adele Free Pham investigates how refugees built a multibillion-dollar industry.

After losing protections under the DACA program, Gilberto Olivas-Bejarano was deported to his birth country. In the Mexican city of León, far from his former life, he says he has much to offer.

In the 1970s, Rich Isaacson was presented with what seemed like a crazy idea: using lasers to detect gravitational waves. It became the biggest project the National Science Foundation had ever funded.

A Jamaican teen threatened with deportation falls in love over the course of a single day in the film adaptation of Nicola Yoon's bestselling young adult romance novel.

Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with indie rock singer and songwriter Lucy Dacus about her song "My Mother And I."

T.C. Boyle's <em>Outside Looking In</em> fictionalizes Timothy Leary's hallucinogenic drug experiments in the 1960s. A graduate student who participated says Boyle did a "great job describing the zeitgeist."

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro plays the puzzle with the <em>New York Times </em>crossword editor Will Shortz and WABE listener Rick Thompson.

Psychologist Darcy Lockman says there's been progress since the 1950s, but equal partnerships are a long way off. Her book <em>All the Rage </em>explores uneven distribution of childcare and domestic labor.

Samira Gutoc, a women's rights advocate, is fighting an uphill battle in Monday's election. But she has already won a loyal following.