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Moni Yakim Knows How To Move You

Moni Yakim teaches a movement class at Juilliard in May 2019. Claudio Papapietro hide caption

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Performing Arts

Moni Yakim Knows How To Move You

The movement coach has taught at Juilliard for 50 years. Stars of stage and screen credit him with helping them create physically demanding roles by manipulating their bodies.

Moni Yakim Knows How To Move You

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Pop Culture

'Fresh Air' Favorites: Joan Rivers

Fresh Air

This week, we're listening back to some favorite Fresh Air interviews from the past decade. Rivers, who died in 2014, spoke to Terry Gross in 2010 about the sacrifices she made as a female comedian.

'Fresh Air' Favorites: Joan Rivers

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Media

'Fresh Air' Favorites: Howard Stern

Fresh Air

This week, we're listening back to some favorite Fresh Air interviews from the past decade. In 2019, Stern told Terry Gross he was no longer the raunchy shock jock he'd been earlier in his career.

'Fresh Air' Favorites: Howard Stern

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Monday

Media

'Fresh Air' Favorites: Columnist David Carr

Fresh Air

This week, we're listening back to some favorite Fresh Air interviews from the past decade. In 2011, Terry Gross spoke to Carr, the media columnist for The New York Times who died in 2015.

'Fresh Air' Favorites: Columnist David Carr

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Food

'Fresh Air' Favorites: Anthony Bourdain

Fresh Air

This week, we're listening back to some favorite Fresh Air interviews from the past decade. In 2016, Dave Davies spoke with Bourdain, the chef-turned-travel-show-host who died in 2018.

'Fresh Air' Favorites: Anthony Bourdain

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'Disinformation' Is The Word Of The Year — And A Sign Of What's To Come

Columbia Journalism Review set up a misinformation newsstand in Manhattan in October 2018, in an effort to educate news consumers about the dangers of disinformation in the lead-up to the U.S. midterm elections. Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Opinion

'Disinformation' Is The Word Of The Year — And A Sign Of What's To Come

Fresh Air

Foreign nations have been systematically spreading falsehoods on social media for years; in 2019, it seemed like the world began to fully grasp the ramifications of disinformation campaigns.

'Disinformation' Is The Word Of The Year — And A Sign Of What's To Come

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Sunday

'Chicken Of The Sea' Is So Wacky — Of Course It Was Created By Kids
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Picture This

'Chicken Of The Sea' Is So Wacky — Of Course It Was Created By Kids

Ellison Nguyen, 6, wrote the book, and Hien Bui-Stafford, 13, illustrated it. They got a little help from Pulitzer Prize-winner Viet Nguyen (Ellison's dad) and cartoonist Thi Bui (Hien's mom).

'Chicken Of The Sea' Is So Wacky — Of Course It Was Created By Kids

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'Harry Potter And The Cursed Child' Makes Its Magic The Old-Fashioned Way

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Book News & Features

'Harry Potter And The Cursed Child' Makes Its Magic The Old-Fashioned Way

The creators of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child designed their show so it wouldn't look like the world Potterheads knew from the movies. They've documented that process in a new book, The Journey.

'Harry Potter And The Cursed Child' Makes Its Magic The Old-Fashioned Way

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Saturday

Ilana Glazer Strikes Out On Her Own In New Stand-Up Special

Comedian and actor Ilana Glazer strikes out solo in her new hour-long special, The Planet Is Burning, set to release on Amazon Prime Video in January. Emily V. Aragones/Amazon Studios, Prime Video hide caption

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Television

Ilana Glazer Strikes Out On Her Own In New Stand-Up Special

After shedding her beloved, free-wheeling Broad City character, the real Ilana is coming out of dormancy. "I have this fire in me," she says. It shows in her new comedy special, The Planet is Burning.

Ilana Glazer Strikes Out On Her Own In New Stand-Up Special

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