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Sunday

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'Emergency Quarters' are for pay phones (remember those?) in a new book by ‘90s kids

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Pedestrians walk past the Fabulosa Books store in San Francisco's Castro District on Thursday. The bookstore is sending LGBTQ+ books to parts of the country where they are censored to counter the rapidly growing effort by anti-LGBTQ+ activists and lawmakers to ban queer-friendly books from public schools and libraries. Haven Daley/AP hide caption

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Saturday

Christian McBride performs at An Evening With Christian McBride at the GRAMMY Museum on February 13, 2020 in Los Angeles, California. Rebecca Sapp/Getty Images for The Recording A/Getty Images North America hide caption

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'Wait Wait' for June 29, 2024: With Not My Job guest Christian Mcbride

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A century-old wrestling competition in Chittagong, Bangladesh, known as Abdul Jabbar's Boli Kheladraws thousands of spectators annually. In this picture from April 24, 2023, two wrestlers go at it on a sandy stage in front of a street audience. Sanchayan Chowdhury hide caption

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Christian McBride performs at An Evening With Christian McBride at the GRAMMY Museum on February 13, 2020 in Los Angeles, California. Rebecca Sapp/Getty Images for The Recording A hide caption

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Live in Philly with jazz legend Christian McBride!

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Friday

Martin Mull participates in "The Cool Kids" panel during the Fox Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour at The Beverly Hilton hotel on Aug. 2, 2018, in Beverly Hills, Calif. Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP hide caption

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Emma Stone in Kinds of Kindness. Yorgos Lanthimos/Searchlight Pictures hide caption

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Thursday

Mother and daughter Janet (Julianne Nicholson) and Lacy (Zoe Ziegler) share a slow New England summer in Janet Planet. Courtesy of A24 hide caption

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Sharply funny 'Janet Planet' perfectly captures the feel of a long, hot summer

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