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  • One year after the #MeToo movement took off, new NPR-Ipsos polls show the nation deeply divided on the issue of sexual assault and harassment. The fissures run more along party lines than gender.
  • Despite penguins, lions and gorillas battling for Hollywood supremacy, 2005 will go down as a box office disappointment. But NPR critic Bob Mondello says the year's films were high on quality.
  • Mayor Lori Lightfoot recently fired the city's police superintendent. Now, residents will get to have a say about who should lead the country's second-largest police department.
  • "On Golden Pond," "Wait Until Dark," "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," "Midsummer Night's Dream," "Man of La Mancha" ... For those in theatre this reads as a "must do someday" kind of list. For many others this is a list of shows you've heard of, even if you're not into theatre whatsoever. What this list is — in order — is the lineup for Riverside Community Players' 100th season! They polled the audiences to find out what THEY'D like to see. These were all pulled from the near 100-year history of the theatre, which started in 1925. It was originally the Drama Department of the Riverside Women's Club before separating to become Riverside Community Players. So out of 99-plus years we were bound to have some heavy hitters asked for. And this is what we'll be getting! On this edition of KVC-Arts, David Fleming talks to board members Phillip Gabriel and Michael Shane Eastman, as well as Mia Mercado, director of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, running now, and wrapping up the 99th season. We'll hear about the upcoming 100th season — going beyond the titles mentioned above, as well as talk about theatre in the round — the type of presentation you get at Riverside Community Players.
  • The Nats were initially handcuffed by Houston starter Zack Greinke, who gave up only two hits in six innings. Washington scored all six runs in the last three innings.
  • Continuing the conversation about a fantastic new album, Father Son!A mix wonderful, wonderful treatments of standards and originals, as well as one cover that I don’t think I ever heard in the world of jazz.  this is one that belongs in any respectable jazz library, and the conversation was both informative and fun. Lots of laughter.
  • The Constitutional Court cited vote-counting irregularities in overturning the result, which is unprecedented in Austria's post-war history.
  • When film companies report their opening weekend box office figures, they often include what are called "previews." 'T'wasn't always thus.
  • Research shows increasingly that layering one strategy on top of another can help minimize the spread of the coronavirus in classrooms.
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