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"As a country, we don't like giving poor people money and that's what they need the most," says author Stephanie Land. Her 2019 memoir Maid inspired a 10-part Netflix series.

Buteau says covering the news of the 2001 terrorist attacks crystalized her desire to go into comedy. She stars in the film Babes and in the Netflix series Survival of the Thickest.

Continuing our 6th season of broadcasting this program this episode features the music of Tchaikovsky and the very talented students from one of the most prestigious music schools in the world the Manhattan School of Music Sinfonia as led by Rob Kapilow and the program will focus on the Russian Master’s beloved Serenade for Strings. This program was recorded live at the home of ‘What Makes It Great’ Merkin Hall at the Kaufman Music Center in Midtown Manhattan back on April 4th, 2022.

It might be difficult for you to get to Milan right now, but this week’s Sunday Opera (6-29 3:00 p.m.) is going to be going there for the beginning of a series of operas from La Scala. We’re beginning with Giuseppe Verdi’s “La forza del destino” (“The Force of Destiny”) in a production starring Anna Netrebko, Ludovic Tezier, and Brian Jagde.

Law's Netflix series with Jason Bateman follows two brothers in New York City, one a successful restaurateur, the other on the run and in debt. Law's also an executive producer of the series.

NPR Music remembers musicians — singers, songwriters, instrumentalists — and other visionaries we lost in 2016. Explore and celebrate their musical legacies.

The irrepressible Ellie Kemper on her journey from a seemingly ordinary Midwestern childhood to starring in the unusual dark comedy, the "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt."

With Hollywood on strike for most of the summer it's shaping up to be a strange year for television. We scoured the streaming sites to find fantastic new releases and great shows worth revisiting.

Teens are reporting that porn is their primary source of information on sex. One group is trying to change that.

2009's top works of foreign fiction, as picked by critic Jessa Crispin, feature a geography as wide ranging as their topics: genetic research, civil unrest, sibling resentment, and fairy-tale depictions of government corruption.