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"A Thousand Blows" is set in 1880s London and features bare-knuckle boxing and an all-female crime gang. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Stephen Graham, who plays aging boxer Henry "Sugar" Goodson.

In Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old the actor discusses female aging and agency, and waking up from a surgery to learn the doctor made changes to her body that were unapproved.

Kendrick Lamar's performance at the Super Bowl is paying dividends, as three of his albums find themselves in this week's top 10.

Could monkeys randomly striking keys on a keyboard for an for an infinite period of time produce a Shakespearean work? Doubtful, says a new study of the "Infinite Monkey Theorem."

Today is International Nelson Mandela Day!

Many restaurants -- even the high-end ones -- are ditching dress codes for diners.

This week, the rapper Future hit #1 on Billboard's albums chart for a third time in the last six months. Meanwhile, on the songs, chart, stasis is becoming the coin of the realm.

For the first time ever, more people in the United Kingdom watched Netflix than the venerated BBC One television channel.

A new show from the late All in the Family producer centers on an Alabama widower and his trans daughter. Clean Slate delivers laughs and tenderness, courtesy of stars George Wallace and Laverne Cox.

The third of four conversations we are airing this week from the Memory Keepers Initiative of the SF Gay Men’s Chorus, an oral history project that chronicle’s the rich history of the Bay Area’s LGBTQ+ community — and the Chorus.

Today is World Potato Day!

The Saturday Night Live 50th anniversary prime-time special was full of sketches and nostalgia — and stretched more than three hours. NPR TV critic Eric Deggans breaks it down.