Ariana DeBose has made history as the first Afro-Latino and openly queer woman to be nominated for an acting Academy Award. In this crossover episode with “The Envelope,” DeBose talks about the expectations she must carry, her experience with “West Side Story” and more.
Russian troops move closer to Ukraine's capital amid a new round of peace talks. Ukrainian refugees continue to scatter. Gas prices jump again. CBS News Correspondent Steve Kathan has today's World News Roundup.
Russia's military is now encircling several Ukrainian cities, but the capital Kiev is still firmly in Ukrainian hands. What mistakes did Russia make, and what are its next likely moves? NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Admiral James Foggo.
NPR's Leila Fadel talks Mariana Budjeryn, a Ukrainian and a nuclear expert at Harvard's Belfer Center, about the dangers of Russia seizing control of Ukraine's nuclear power plants.
What if there is no tomorrow? There wasn’t one today. Josh Gondelman is here to laugh and cry with us, and to unpack the heaps of big feelings in Groundhog Day.
The West’s co-ordinated financial weaponry is starting to bite, opening a new age of economic conflict; once-unthinkable oil embargoes seem now to be on the table. Taiwan is another democratic country with a big, bullying neighbour; we examine how the war has sparked introspection. And celebrating Pier Paolo Pasolini, a polymathic auteur unjustly known only for his most controversial film.
This week the boys sit down with comedian Megan Gailey (@bettermegangailey, Comedy Central, I Love A Lifetime Movie, Megan Fun of Sports, Pause with Sam Jay) to discuss Kacey Musgraves! The song of the week is Kacey's first top ten hit, "Follow Your Arrow," the pro-gay, pro-weed, pro-doing-what-ya-gotta-do rug cutter off her debut album.
In addition to talking the quality and inspiration for "Follow Your Arrow," Megan chats with Danny and Tyler about The Masked Singer, which Backstreet Boys have gone off the deep end, and the double standards placed upon women in country music.
New to Kacey? Here are some key recs from Megan, Danny, and Tyler: High Horse Pageant Material Glittery Space Cowboy Easy (with Troye Sivan) Neon Moon (Brooks & Dunn cover) Rainbow My House It Is What It Is breadwinner Biscuits Dime Store Cowgirl Crazy (Gnarls Barkley cover)
New York, 1984: the iconic artist Andy Warhol meets the rising star Jean-Michel Basquiat. Their relationship as they work together on a landmark exhibition is at the heart of the world premiere of Anthony McCarten’s new drama, The Collaboration, at the Young Vic theatre. The director Kwame Kwei-Armah tells Kirsty Wark how the drama pulls apart the creative, racial and sexual tensions between the two, and explores artistic reputations and rivalries.
The artist Louise Bourgeois was already in her 70s in the 1980s and slowly getting the attention she deserved. An exhibition at the Hayward Gallery in London focuses on the decades that followed as she had a late burst of creativity using fabric and textiles. The curator of Woven Child Ralph Rugoff explains how the artist began to incorporate clothes from all stages of her life into her art, mining themes of personal trauma, memory, identity and reparation.
The Somali-British poet Warsan Shire has been hailed as the voice of a generation, who has collaborated with the superstar Beyoncé. Her debut collection, Bless The Daughter: Raised By A Voice In Her Head is full of sounds and smells, exploring the lives of refugees and the relationship between mothers and daughters. While she is celebrated as an exciting poet of our time, Shire says she looks to Somalia’s literary heritage for inspiration.
Producer: Katy Hickman
Photo credit: Jeremy Pope and Paul Bettany in 'Collaboration' (c) Marc Brenner. Concept and design by Émilie Chen.