What to look at, learn and pay attention to this weekend : NPR

Sandra Oh stars in UMMA, out March 18.

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Sandra Oh stars in UMMA, out March 18.

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This week, Bob Dylan introduced that he is freeing a brand new e-book, photographer Bryan Tarnowski captured the magic of a Fat Tuesday run and Oscar Isaac became 43.

Here is what NPR’s Pop Tradition Glad Hour staff used to be being attentive to — and what you will have to take a look at this weekend.

BTS: Permission to Dance excursion

The South Korean boyband BTS has 3 Seoul concert events this week, and they will be live-streamed and shown in theaters for people who can’t go in person. I have additionally gotten tickets to peer them on excursion subsequent month, in order that’s 4 other concert events I’m going to be playing. —Laura Sirikul

Umma, out March 18

UMMA, a horror film starring Sandra Oh, comes out subsequent Friday. It follows Oh as a girl named Amanda, who lives on a rural bee-keeping farm along with her daughter. The whole lot goes smartly till the stays of Amanda’s estranged mom arrive from Korea. The movie appears to be taking up concepts of probably overbearing moms and intergenerational trauma. I am actually occupied with this film, and I have already watched the trailer a host of instances now. —Kat Chow

All Songs Thought to be

All Songs Considered — a display that I’ve been on intermittently for greater than 15 years now — has been making strikes to make bigger past what they have been doing for years, and I am delighted about it. They only introduced a Perfect of the Month podcast hosted through our good friend, Lars Gotrich, and feature been striking out a Turning the Tables mini-series of panel discussions. They only put out a dialog between two expensive buddies of the display, Ann Powers and Marissa Lorusso, talking about their shared love of Kate Bush and Yoko Ono.

I simply had been actually, actually excited to peer probably the most longest-running podcasts available in the market keep growing in any case those years, and to find new tactics to hide an excellent broader vary of tune and show off the various, many talented voices throughout NPR Song. —Stephen Thompson

“Is It Humorous For The Jews?” through Jason Zinoman

It would be bizarre to mention that this makes me satisfied as a result of it is a couple of severe topic, however Jason Zinoman wrote a work referred to as “Is It Funny for the Jews? “ a couple of weeks in the past for The New York Occasions, and it is a attention-grabbing essay.

He is wrestling with this concept of being Jewish and coping with such things as anti-Semitism, the Holocaust, and prejudice via comedy — and what it way to comb the ones issues off or make gentle of them. And he is going via this temporary cultural historical past of various Jewish comedians like Jerry Seinfeld or Jackie Mason and what it way to be Jewish on this time of emerging anti-Semitism. It actually made me suppose, and it is price testing if you have not already. —Aisha Harris

The Ultimate Days of Ptolemy Gray on Apple TV+

Apple TV+’s The Ultimate Days of Ptolemy Gray has a great cast — Samuel L. Jackson, Dominique Fishback, Walton Goggins — and a super writing pedigree, in that it comes from Walter Mosley adapting his personal novel. It is a little disorienting in the beginning, as a result of a part of the basis is the central persona’s failing reminiscence and cognition, however it is price sticking with it to peer whether or not it is for you. Two episodes are out Friday, and extra will circulation weekly. —Linda Holmes

Useless Eyes, the podcast

On my checklist for this weekend: the podcast Useless Eyes, which … smartly, simply see what it is about. It comes to Hollywood and Tom Hanks and damaged hearts, and I have never listened to it but however the suggestions have simply been piling up, so let’s all get to it in combination, eh? —Linda Holmes

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