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Poet Lewis MacAdams lives in downtown Los Angeles and writes about his neighborhood in what he calls Close To Home stories. Today he makes a very unpleasant discovery.

The introduction of sound to movies left audiences hungry for "talkies" and paved the way for the early operettas of German-born Jewish film director Ernst Lubitsch. Classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz reviews a new DVD collection of Lubitsch's early works.

The antiviral infusion Remdesivir was just revived as an early treatment for COVID. It can be expensive and hard to administer, but is useful when monoclonals and pills are in short supply like now.

Sweet-natured and sharply pointed, The Band's Visit follows the adventures of an Egyptian musical group meant to be on a goodwill tour in Israel. Through a mishap, the band is stranded in a remote desert town.

When siblings Jared, Simon and Mallory move into a mysterious old house, they find they're not alone. Convincing digital goblins chase the siblings through an adventure that conforms to genre but should appeal to kids.

Malan Breton lasted two episodes in the third season of the hit reality series Project Runway. This week, Breton showed his stuff at Fashion Week in New York City's Bryant Park.

A new exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., features photos and portraits of hip hop performers and a wall of graffiti. The show likens rap and hip hop to self portraiture. Most of the lyrics, after all, are boasts about the emcee's prowess and badness.

Writer Kate Spicer talks about her "descent into starvation" while filming Super Skinny Me, a documentary in which two journalists attempt to drop from a size eight to a size zero in just six weeks.

Multi-talented comedienne Mo'Nique co-stars in the new film Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins, along with actors Martin Lawrence and James Earl Jones. Mo'Nique talks about the film, being a plus-sized woman and how she balances family life with a high-profile career.

NPR correspondents in Berlin, Paris and London talk about escalating tensions between Russia and the West over Ukraine.