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Each week, Tiny Desk Radio hosts Bobby Carter and Anamaria Sayre present three Tiny Desk concerts and share how these memorable (and sometimes viral) moments came together. You'll hear world-class musicians from the worlds of pop, jazz, classical, Americana, hip-hop, R&B and more stripping down their sound for a concert series that's unlike anything else on the internet — or the radio.
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Each week, Tiny Desk Radio hosts Bobby Carter and Anamaria Sayre present three Tiny Desk concerts and share how these memorable (and sometimes viral) moments came together. You'll hear world-class musicians from the worlds of pop, jazz, classical, Americana, hip-hop, R&B and more stripping down their sound for a concert series that's unlike anything else on the internet — or the radio.

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 The Queen turned crimson with fury, and, after glaring at her for a moment like a wild beast, screamed — Off with her head! Off... (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland original vintage engraving) (<a href=“http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-75202597/stock-vector-the-queen-turned-crimson-with-fury-and-after-glaring-at-her-for-a-moment-like-a-wild-beast.html?src=dt_last_search-3”>Photo</a> via ShutterStock)

National Interest

Planned Parenthood and the Queen of Hearts

Everyone has a beef about “the media,” and here’s mine: We typically highlight accusations of wrongdoing, but we typica ...

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 In this July 7, 2015 file photo, immigrants from El Salvador and Guatemala who entered the country illegally board a bus after they were released from a family detention center in San Antonio. A group of immigrant rights lawyers in a filing Thursday, Aug. 13, 2015, say that detention of women and children caught crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally is lengthy and unsafe, challenging the government's claims that immigrant families are held only briefly and that their detention doesn't violate a longstanding ban. (Eric Gay/AP Photo, File)
National Interest

Trump’s clown car express: Ending birthright citizenship

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National Interest

Yo, bureaucratic bigots: Do your job, or quit

Gay marriage is the law of the land, but alas, 52 days after the ruling, there are still places in America where homophobic bigots on the ...

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 Vince Valentine in 'Defending the Caveman' at Penn's Landing Playhouse.
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It’s been about 30 years since I checked in with a show about the gender wars called “Defending the Caveman,” which tur ...

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 In Commonwealth Classic Theatre Company's 'Rage of Achilles,' from left: Adam Altman as a spy,  Brian Anthony Wilson as Priam, Charlotte Northeast as a spy and Eric Scotolati as a herald. (Photo courtesy of Rebecca Gudelunas/Wide Eyed Studios)
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

Review: Two underlings dealing with the ‘Rage of Achilles’

Oh, the mortals are restless! Achilles the Greek is furious because his boss, Agamemnon, has made grave mistakes in war and women. He bec ...

11 years ago

 In Commonwealth Classic Theatre Company's 'Rage of Achilles,' from left: Adam Altman as a spy,  Brian Anthony Wilson as Priam, Charlotte Northeast as a spy and Eric Scotolati as a herald. (Photo courtesy of Rebecca Gudelunas/Wide Eyed Studios)
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

Review: Two underlings dealing with the ‘Rage of Achilles’

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 Republican presidential candidate, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush; and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton  (Charlie Neibergall and Jim Cole/AP Photos)
National Interest

Hillary, Jeb, and the downside of deja vu

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National Interest

Will Trump get dumped for his remarks about Planned Parenthood?

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Speak Easy
Community

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Urban Planning

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 Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker talks about a deal to pay for a new arena for the Milwaukee Bucks at a news conference Thursday, June 4, 2015, in Madison, Wis. Taxpayers would pick up half the cost of a new $500 million arena for the NBA basketball team under a financial deal that would rely on current and former team owners for the rest, Walker said Thursday. (Morry Gash/AP Photo)
National Interest

Scott Walker’s government welfare for fat cats

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 (<a href=“http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-252142183/stock-photo-portrait-of-thomas-jefferson-by-rembrandt-peale-ca-s.html?src=fPtYW1nnqD8_LxU56TWXLw-1-0”>Jefferson (left)</a><a href=“http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-252135232/stock-photo-andrew-jackson-th-u-s-president.html?src=ZCphklWwQOButLWq7erUUA-1-9”> and Jackson photos </a> via ShutterStock)
National Interest

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Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

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