Arts & Culture



This week, Wait Wait is live at Tanglewood with host Peter Sagal, special guest Paul Giamatti and panelists Joyelle Nicole Johnson, Tom Bodett, and Mo Rocca

The Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History's Princes of Surf exhibition tells of how three visiting Hawaiian princes brought the sport to these shores 140 years ago.

The 1989 film The War of the Roses was a nihilistic story of a dissolving marriage. A new reimagining starring Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch plays like a standard studio comedy.

Experts answer a round of finance questions from NPR's audience, including how to financially support a friend with Stage 4 cancer and how to stop paying for your parents.

Before he entered politics, most Americans knew Donald Trump as an entertainer. In his second term, he's taken aim at cultural institutions.

Producer Lorne Michaels has said he is looking to shake things up ahead of SNL's 51st season, which starts in early October.

The auction of an iconic lightsaber opens up rare opportunity for Star Wars fans. NPR's Andrew Mambo speaks with Propstore COO Brandon Alinger for more details.

Wexler produced hits for Atlantic Records by Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin and Wilson Pickett, and is credited with coining the term "rhythm and blues." He died in 2008. Originally broadcast in 1993.

Leiber and Stoller met in LA when Leiber still was in high school. They went on to write and produce songs for artists like Elvis Presley, The Drifters and Ben E. King. Originally broadcast in 1991.

Ben E. King was the lead singer of The Drifters, and later went solo with such hits as "Stand By Me" and "Spanish Harlem." He died 2015. Originally broadcast in 1988.