Mallory Yu

Each week, guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: TikTok Pride and Prejudice, K-pop star G-Dragon, a Disney cover album, and Astro Bot on the PS5.

Cynthia Erivo says being different had "something to do with" her role as Elphaba in 'Wicked: Part 1.'

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer about her new book True Gretch: What I've Learned About Life, Leadership and Everything in Between.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with New York TimesAt the Edge of Empire: A Family's Reckoning with China."

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with journalist Stephen Witt about chip-maker Nvidia's rise to become the most valuable company in the world and what it means for the future of AI.

When Chat GPT came out a year and a half ago, school districts rushed to block the tool amid fears students would use it to cheat. Now, many districts are embracing AI more broadly.

As much as we would all love to ignore COVID, a new set of variants that scientists call “FLiRT” is here to remind us that the virus is still with us.

Each week, Pop Culture Happy Hour guests and hosts share what's bringing them joy. This week: The K-pop band ATEEZ, Billie Eilish's new album, the Valley Heat podcast and novels by Megan Abbott.

Singer-songwriter Brittany Howard makes her voice acting debut in Thelma the Unicorn, a mini pony who longs to be a star, and her dream comes true when she disguises herself as a unicorn.

The podcast You Didn't See Nothin' has now won a Pulitzer Prize in Audio Reporting. We revisit a conversation with the reporter behind the project, Yohance Lacour.