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'Wait Wait....' Comedian Paula Poundstone returns to Rochester
4+ hour, 9+ min ago (67+ words) 'Wait Wait....' Comedian Paula Poundstone returns to Rochester'WXXI News "The time for cowardice is over." That's according to comedian Paula Poundstone, who has been using her platform to share her take on the state of democracy. Poundstone will be in…...
'Wait Wait...'. Comedian Paula Poundstone returns to Rochester
8+ hour, 29+ min ago (184+ words) 'Wait Wait...'. Comedian Paula Poundstone returns to Rochester'WXXI News 1:00: CITY Magazine's "Growth" issue Then in our second hour, as crocuses push through ground still dusted by snow, now may be a time to reflect on what it takes to grow....
At a clown school near Paris, failure is the lesson
2+ mon, 6+ day ago (1106+ words) TAMPES, France " The man in control tonight is named Carlo Jacucci. You're on the stage. He's the audience. And there's almost no chance you're going to please him " which, somehow, is exactly why you're here. "The games begin," Jacucci, a…...
Julian Barnes' playful new book is also his 'official departure"
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (616+ words) Departure(s) explores several of Barnes' lifelong obsessions " mortality, memory, and time. It's slim but weighty, digressive yet incisive. Barnes, who just turned 80, says it will be his last. Julian Barnes' playful new book is also his 'official departure' In Departure…...
National Comedy Center director talks about the state of jokes in 2025
6+ mon, 5+ hour ago (110+ words) In the first hour of "Connections with Evan Dawson" on 10/7/25, we sit down with National Comedy Center director Journey Gunderson to discuss the current state of comedy under the Trump administration. National Comedy Center director talks about the state of…...
Emmys 2025: A running list of the winners
6+ mon, 3+ week ago (576+ words) Updated September 14, 2025 at 10:05 PM EDT Comedian Nate Bargatze is hosting the 77th Emmy Awards live on Sunday night. Severance, The Penguin, The Studio and The White Lotus are among the most-nominated shows. Below are the nominees in some of the main…...
Wes Anderson peers into the hollowness of extreme wealth in 'The Phoenician Scheme"
10+ mon, 1+ week ago (535+ words) It's become customary to describe a new Wes Anderson movie as "more of the same," but it says something about the sheer richness of his visual imagination that he can make two movies set in roughly the same era that…...