People evacuating homes amidst the flooding in Houston, Texas on Aug. 27. Joe Raedle/Getty Images hide caption
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Monday
Quoth the Three-Eyed Raven, "Nevermind": In Game of Throne's Season 7 finale, "The Dragon and the Wolf," Bran (Isaac Hempstead Wright) doesn't flake. Helen Sloan/HBO hide caption
Saturday
Jason Smith, winner of Food Network Star, season 13. Eddy Chen/Courtesy of Food Network hide caption
Friday
Dougie Baldwin (left) and Aaron Moten are two of the stars in the new Netflix comedy Disjointed, which is set in a medical marijuana dispensary. Patrick Wymore/Netflix hide caption
'Disjointed' Is Like Any Workplace Sitcom — With More Pot, Sex And Language
"The Night Begins To Shine," a previously unknown song first used as a joke in a 2014 episode in Teen Titans Go!, hit the charts this summer. Courtesy of Cartoon Network hide caption
An Accidental Hit 'Begins To Shine' — And Only Because Of 'Teen Titans Go!'
Left to right: Michelle Yeoh in Star Trek: Discovery; Nathalie Kelley and Grant Show in Dynasty; Iain Armitage in Young Sheldon; and Adam Scott and Craig Robinson in Ghosted. CBS/CW/CBS/Fox hide caption
Thursday
A van registered in Spain sits near the concert venue Maassilo in Rotterdam, Netherlands, where a rock concert set for Wednesday night was canceled because of a terror threat. The driver of the van, which contained some gas bottles, was arrested. Arie Kievit/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
When The Tick (Peter Serafinowicz) attaches himself to Arthur (Griffin Newman), no tweezers in the world can separate them. Jessica Miglio/Amazon hide caption
Some YouTube stars seek counseling and take breaks from online life to deal with symptoms of anxiety. Eva Bee/Ikon Images/Getty Images hide caption
Wednesday
Jimmy Logan (Channing Tatum), Mellie Logan (Riley Keough), and Clyde Logan (Adam Driver) in Logan Lucky. Claudette Barius/Fingerprint Releasing/Bleecker Street hide caption
Tuesday
One recent example of a musician prominently mentioning a brand in a song: Kendrick Lamar with a jar of Grey Poupon in the music video for "Humble." YouTube hide caption
From Rolls-Royce To Grey Poupon, A Look At Brand Mentions In Chart-Topping Songs
Ted Kaczynski is flanked by federal agents as he is led from the federal courthouse in Helena, Mont., on April 4, 1996. Kaczynski is now serving a life sentence in prison for the bombings. John Youngbear/Associated Press hide caption
FBI Profiler Says Linguistic Work Was Pivotal In Capture Of Unabomber
Monday
Pamela Adlon plays plays Sam, a single mom raising three daughters (from left, Olivia Edward, Hannah Alligood and Mikey Madison) in the FX comedy series Better Things. Pamela Littky/FX hide caption
Pamela Adlon Started Working At Age 9, But 'Better Things' Happened At 50
Jerry Lewis, pictured here in 2016, told Fresh Air that comics need a place where they can fail. "We had the [Borscht Belt] at the Catskill Mountains. We had Lakewood, N.J. We had vaudeville, burlesque. ... I mean, there were so many places for you to be bad. Today, kids don't have a hell of a chance." Rich Fury/Invision/AP hide caption
Jerry Lewis On His Borscht Belt Childhood And The Lonely Work Of Comedy
The Khyber crystal in Kylo Ren's lightsaber is cracked, see, which is why its plasma blade is unstable and naw I'm yankin' ya it's just Beric Dondarrion (Richard Dormer). HBO hide caption