Culture

This week, Wait Wait is live in Chicago with guest host Negin Farsad, special guest Chris Perfetti and panelists Joyelle Nicole Johnson, Alonzo Bodden, and Luke Burbank

Student Ava Gilberg-Stroud picked up the drums at a young age to feel closer to her dad. She interviewed him to learn about how he first got into music for the PBS News Student Reporting Labs.

Tom Hiddleston stars in the new adaptation of Stephen King's novella — which is somehow a very sweet film about the inevitable approach of death.

Reporter Kevin Sack's new book is a history of Charleston's Emanuel AME Church, the oldest Black congregation in the South, where a white supremacist killed nine worshippers a decade ago.

Shuai Wang thought he'd peaked before competing on Top Chef. But over a plate of food at King BBQ, the chef tells NPR's Debbie Elliott he now knows his career is just getting started.

The annual Play Days showcase was far more interesting than the reveals themselves.

Pitbull fans are honoring him the only way they know how: partying till dawn in bald caps and fake goatees.

People are drinking less these days, but drinking songs never go out of style. The Lomax Archive is dropping a new album of traditional songs this week.

The cheap convenience of the "millennial lifestyle subsidy" has gone - does "buy now, pay later" fill in the gaps?

Superstitions around Friday the 13th abound.