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Not Necessarily The Nose: Pop Culture Is Another Thing Dividing Us; The Major...

Here's the money quote from a recent Washington Post story on entertainment in the Trump era : "People look at politics when deciding how they feel about a host or actor. Pop culture has now become one...

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The Nose On Cynthia Nixon's Bagel, 'Searching,' And Some Other Stuff

Actress Cynthia Nixon lost the Democratic gubernatorial primary in New York yesterday . Did she lose because of the kind of bagel she eats ? Probably not. But from the Nose's point of view, what could...

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An Hour With Joyce Maynard

Joyce Maynard has been writing for over 45 years about the kind of human experiences we're often taught to keep hidden - stories about envy, anger, vanity, self-pity, pride. We read her stories because...

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The New Haven Nose On Louis C.K. And 'First Man'

Louis C.K.'s surprise return to a comedy club stage in late August was widely covered and discussed. His subsequent performances have maybe sparked less internet conversation, but they're just as...

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What Jesus And Britney Spears Have In Common: Puns

Shakespeare was famous for his off-color puns, yet much of their cleverness has been lost to the evolution of our English language. In Shakespeare's English, the word "nothing" was pronounced as...

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No Use Crying Over Spilled Milk...Right? A Look At Regret

We all regret and we should not regret that we regret. I regret buying that pair of pink sneakers that I'll never wear. I can't take the sneakers back but I can call the brother that I regret not...

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What If Tug-Of-War Were Still An Olympic Sport? And Other Crazy Crucial...

Mike Pesca is one of our very favorite guests -- on any number of topics . And he's got a new book out: Upon Further Review: The Greatest What-Ifs in Sports History .

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The Nose On Pete Davidson, Dan Crenshaw, Douglas Rain, Stan Lee, and 'Can You...

Last weekend, Saturday Night Live did a thing it rarely does: it apologized for a joke it had made in poor taste . Pete Davidson, the comedian behind the joke and the apology, is a unique figure in the...

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Live (On Tape) From The Sea Tea Comedy Theater, It's Our Stand-Up Comedy...

To do a show about local stand-up comedy, we figured we should probably do a show of local stand-up comedy. So we went to a comedy club , put on a comedy show, and then did a talk show about the comedy...

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An Hour With Nicholson Baker

Nicholson Baker once spent a portion of his retirement savings to rescue first edition newspapers from being destroyed. He also fought to save card catalogues and to prevent library managers from...

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The Nose On Bernardo Bertolucci, Fresh Air, And 'Creed II'

Bernardo Bertolucci directed The Last Emperor (which won nine Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director), Last Tango in Paris , The Dreamers , 1900 , and Little Buddha , among other...

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From The Bad Ideas Dept.: It's A Show About Towels!

Seriously: a show about towels. There's the history of towels , towels in Christianity , Terrible Towels , Towel Day . Oh, and there are actual towels too.

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An Hour With Singer-Songwriter Jill Sobule

Jill Sobule is back in town! She joins us after her first of three consecutive evening performances at the Mark Twain House.

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The Nighttime Nose Bids Adieu To 2018

As 2018 draws to a close, The Nose makes its final appearance on our schedule this year. And so we've brought in a nine-person Nose to do a special, live, nighttime broadcast of our best ofs (and maybe...

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The Nose On Louis C.K. (What Else Is New?) And Two Movies: 'Bird Box' And 'Vice'

Louis C.K. has done another thing . He did the thing a few weeks ago, it turns out. But this week the thing appeared on the internet , as things do. And so The Nose, as it does , must cover the thing....

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Kafka. Need I Say More.

Most of us know what Kafkaesque means even if we've never read a word Kafka wrote. For example, it's Kafkaesque when your smart home turns on you. It's not Kafkaesque when you wait in line for two...

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Not Necessarily The Nose: Holy Shirtballs, This Is 'The Good Place'

Where We Live producer Carmen Baskauf has been badgering us to do a show about The Good Place for months on end at this point. (It's gotten kind of weird, to be honest. We're a little worried about...

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Son Of A Bench! Here We Go Again: Not Necessarily The Nose -- 'The Good Place'

Where We Live producer Carmen Baskauf had been badgering us to do a show about The Good Place for months on end. (It had gotten kind of weird, to be honest. We were a little worried about Carmen, to be...

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The New Haven Nose On Aziz Ansari And Two More Oscar Nominees: 'Bohemian...

Colin's away this week, but The Nose must go on! Or maybe "must" isn't quite right, but in this particular case, The Nose is going on -- with excellent guest hosts: The Arts Paper 's Lucy Gellman and...

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Live (On Tape) From The Sea Tea Comedy Theater, It's Our Stand-Up Comedy...

To do a show about local stand-up comedy, we figured we should probably do a show of local stand-up comedy. So we went to a comedy club , put on a comedy show, and then did a talk show about the comedy...

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