This post provides further details on Target's decision to allow its pharmacists to refuse to fill prescriptions they have issues with. So don't get your prescriptions filled there (unless you like some anonymous pharmacist passing moral judgment on your health) and don't do anything else there until they retract this contemptible position.
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'Everything's Gonna Be Okay' Is Better Than Okay
The first season of Freeform's Everything's Gonna Be Okay is a funny, big-hearted love letter to family.
08 Apr 2020
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Jordan Rakei Breathes New Life Into Soul Music
Jordan Rakei is a restless artistic spirit who brings R&B, jazz, hip-hop, and pop craft into his sumptuous, warm music. Rakei discusses his latest album and new music he's working on that will sound completely different from everything he's done so far.
08 Apr 2020
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Country Music's John Anderson Counts the 'Years'
John Anderson, who continues to possess one of country music's all-time great voices, contemplates life, love, mortality, and resilience on Years.
08 Apr 2020
Music
Rory Block's 'Prove It on Me' Pays Tribute to Women's Blues
The songs on Rory Block's Prove It on Me express the strength of female artists despite their circumstances as second class citizens in both the musical world and larger American society.
08 Apr 2020
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The 50 Best Post-Punk Albums Ever: Part 3, Echo & the Bunnymen to Lizzy Mercier Descloux
This week we are celebrating the best post-punk albums of all-time and today we have part three with Echo & the Bunnymen, Cabaret Voltaire, Pere Ubu and more.
08 Apr 2020
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Wendy Carlos: Musical Pioneer, Reluctant Icon
Amanda Sewell's vastly informative new biography on musical trailblazer Wendy Carlos is both reverent and honest.
08 Apr 2020
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British Folk Duo Orpine Share Blissful New Song "Two Rivers" (premiere)
Orpine's "Two Rivers" is a gently undulating, understated folk song that provides a welcome reminder of the enduring majesty of nature.
08 Apr 2020
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Blesson Roy Gets "In Tune With the Moon" (premiere)
Terry Borden was a member of slowcore pioneers Idaho and a member of Pete Yorn's band. Now he readies the debut of Blesson Roy and shares "In Tune With the Moon".
08 Apr 2020
Books
In 'Wandering Dixie', Discovering the Jewish South Is Part of Discovering Self
Sue Eisenfeld's Wandering Dixie is not only a collection of dispatches from the lost Jewish South but also a journey of self-discovery.
07 Apr 2020
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Bill Withers and the Curse of the Black Genius
"Lean on Me" singer-songwriter Bill Withers was the voice of morality in an industry without honor. It's amazing he lasted this long.
07 Apr 2020
Film
Jeff Baena Explores the Intensity of Mental Illness in His Mystery, 'Horse Girl'
Co-writer and star Alison Brie's unreliable narrator in Jeff Baena's Horse Girl makes for a compelling story about spiraling into mental illness.
07 Apr 2020
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Pokey LaFarge Hits 'Rock Bottom' on His Way Up
Americana's Pokey LaFarge performs music in front of an audience as a way of conquering his personal demons on Rock Bottom.
07 Apr 2020
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Joni Mitchell's 'Shine' Is More Timely and Apt Than Ever
Joni Mitchell's 2007 eco-nightmare opus, Shine is more timely and apt than ever, and it's out on vinyl for the first time.
07 Apr 2020
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'Live at Carnegie Hall' Captures Bill Withers at His Grittiest and Most Introspective
Bill Withers' Live at Carnegie Hall manages to feel both exceptionally funky and like a new level of grown-up pop music for its time.
07 Apr 2020
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Dual Identities and the Iranian Diaspora: Sepehr Debuts 'Shaytoon'
Electronic producer Sepehr discusses his debut album releasing Friday, sparing no detail on life in the Iranian diaspora, the experiences of being raised by ABBA-loving Persian rug traders, and the illegal music stores that still litter modern Iran.
07 Apr 2020
Television
From the Enterprise to the Discovery: The Decline and Fall of Utopian Technology and the Liberal Dream
The technology and liberalism of recent series such as Star Trek: Discovery, Star Trek: Picard, and the latest Doctor Who series have more in common with Harry Potter's childish wand-waving than Gene Roddenberry's original techno-utopian dream.
07 Apr 2020
Music
The 50 Best Post-Punk Albums Ever: Part 2, The B-52's to Magazine
This week we are celebrating the best post-punk albums of all-time and today we have part two with the Cure, Mission of Burma, the B-52's and more.
07 Apr 2020
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Emily Keener's "Boats" Examines Our Most Treasured Relationships (premiere)
Folk artist Emily Keener's "Boats" offers a warm look back on the road traveled so far—a heartening reflection for our troubled times.
07 Apr 2020
Music
Paul Weller - "Earth Beat" (Singles Going Steady)
Paul Weller's singular modes as a soul man, guitar hero, and techno devotee converge into a blissful jam about hope for the earth on "Earth Beat".
06 Apr 2020
Games
On Point and Click Adventure Games with Creator Joel Staaf Hästö
Point and click adventure games, says Kathy Rain and Whispers of a Machine creator Joel Staaf Hästö, hit a "sweet spot" between puzzles that exercise logical thinking and stories that stimulate emotions.
06 Apr 2020
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