Harry Styles: The pop icon comes back on his
The former One Direction breakout star decided to stop playing it safe and made the album he wanted. He sat down with Tom Power in New York to talk about his “big turning point.“
The former One Direction breakout star decided to stop playing it safe and made the album he wanted. He sat down with Tom Power in New York to talk about his “big turning point.“
After the abolition of slavery in 1833, the British government took out a huge loan to pay reparations. Surprisingly, they were not intended for the slaves, but for slave owners. The last payment on the loan was made in 2015. Playwright Juliet Gilkes Romero joined Tom Power to discuss how this story inspired her latest work, The Whip.
Pop icon Harry Styles explains why he decided to come back on his own terms, stop playing it safe and make the album he wanted. Our online columnist Alyssa Bereznak discusses Byte, a brand new app that rewards creators by paying them to create six-second looping videos. Playwright Juliet Gilkes Romero tells us how her latest work, The Whip, presents a different discussion around the slave trade. Comedian Dara Ó Briain talks about what it was like making the shift from science to stand-up.
When Project Runway launched in 2004, competitive reality shows were in their infancy. Now, they’re in their mature pantsuit years, but the series, now in its 18th season, rolls on. The show moved from Bravo to Lifetime, and last season it returned to Bravo with a new cast. Host Heidi Klum and mentor Tim Gunn have been replaced by Karlie Kloss and season 4 winner Christian Siriano. But the sewing machines continue to buzz, and it’s still hard to make a dress in a day.
HBO and The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by Kevin Clark to discuss the potential NFL QB upheaval for the 2020 season (2:04). Then Bill talks with author and podcast host Stephen Dubner about cowriting ‘Freakonomics,’ the evolution of sportswriting, the future of the NFL, getting ready for legal sports gambling, the science of napping, athletes after sports, vaping, the coronavirus, and much more (30:54).
On the Gist, don’t touch your face.In the interview, Mike talks with legal analyst Jill Wine-Banks about her book, The Watergate Girl: My Fight for Truth and Justice Against a Criminal President. They discuss her role on the prosecutorial team during the Watergate scandal, the memorable Rose Mary Woods stretch, and how the American public kept Nixon accountable.In the spiel, Chris Matthews retired. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Through Blue Tin Production, Hoda Katebi is trying to change industry standards in fashion and manufacturing.
A special live edition of The Moth at the State Theatre in Portland, Maine.
In 2005, a duo of Puerto Rican artists released their eponymously titled debut album “Calle 13.” Their mix of reggaeton and rap took the Latinx music scene by storm and got them three Latin Grammy awards. In 2017, one half of that duo, René Juan Pérez Joglar—better known as Residente—released his first solo album. To find inspiration, he took a genealogical DNA test and traveled to every part of the world that showed up in the test, where he collaborated with local musicians. Now, Residente is working on his second solo album, which involves the brainwaves of worms. Maria Hinojosa sits down with Residente to dig into the mind of the man who has experimented with so many musical genres.