Kaleigh and Cody Brendle spend time together at their parents’ New Jersey home before Kaleigh’s move across the country for law school. They say they have helped each other navigate life as two blind people. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption toggle caption Claire Harbage/NPR Catch up on what you missed with our Education newsletter, sent weekly.
PINGYAO PREMIERE The Pingyao International Film Festival will mark its 10th edition with a run set for Sept. 24–30, at the Pingyao Festival Palace in Shanxi Province. Founded in 2017 by director Jia Zhangke, the festival spans four programs: Screening, Market, Cultivation and Academics. The Screening slate will include Crouching Tigers, dedicated to emerging directors’
The organisers of the Edmonton Marathon have admitted the course measured more than half a kilometre too long for the 2026 edition. The annual event in Alberta, Canada is often used as a qualifier for the prestigious Boston Marathon. But a number of frustrated runners voiced concerns online after the race, noting that the distance
The samples of jollof rice at the festival in Washington, D.C. were prepared by chefs from the D.C. metro area, hailing from six countries: Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and — for the first time since the competition began in 2017 — the United States. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption toggle caption Claire Harbage/NPR It’s
“Game of Thrones: The Mad King” is sharing some of the magic behind the scenes in a new video that shows how the stage at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-Upon-Avon has been transformed for the show, which launched earlier this month. The show’s production design, overseen by set designer Chloe Lamford, is unlike anything
Outlining why Patterson’s crime was so “dreadful”, they talked of the “betrayal of trust” of family members whom she had invited for lunch. It was, they said, the culmination of a plan she had “orchestrated ” for months, including finding and preparing enough death caps to kill and “concocting a fantastic lie” to explain the
