Ryan Benk
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The album's namesake, Polari, is a set of a few hundred words and phrases that was adopted by gay men as a way of speaking in secret during periods of criminalization.
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We hear from musicians Grady Allen and Dante Melucci from the band Anxious about their second album Bambi. The young hardcore act says it's their most authentic outing yet.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Lydia Kang and Nate Pedersen, authors of "Pseudoscience," about why people want to believe in things like Bigfoot, palm reading, and spontaneous human combustion.
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Promising violinists can get their hands on a Stradivarius and other 18th century instruments through a lending program out of Chicago.
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Does you feel like you're always waiting for the new season of your favorite TV show? NPR TV Critic Eric Deggans has some explanations for us.
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NPR's Scott Simon talks with Patrick Patterson and Steve Scipio of the British funk band Cymande about their new album and about reconstituting the band after decades.
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NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Nobel-Prize winning author Han Kang about her latest novel, "We Do Not Part."
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The Great Circle is all Indy, no Harrison. Iconic video game actor Troy Baker discusses how he reinterpreted the role.
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Nick Frost on his newest horror comedy and what makes the slasher funny.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Columbia University professor Jeremy Dauber about his new book, "American Scary: A History of Horror from Salem to Stephen King and Beyond."