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Pop Culture Happy Hour is a twice-weekly entertainment and pop culture podcast from NPR featuring lively discussions about books, movies, music, television, comics, nostalgia, happy making, and pretty much anything else that strikes a nerve.

She shoved her law degree in the back of the closet, gave its living-room space to DVD sets of The Wire and ne... NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour, Linda Holmes, Stephen Thompson, Glen Weldon, and Special Guests. "Then you still have to fit in writing and the editing. Bloom Great Grandpa • Four of Arrows. Beyond the cheery chatter of "Pop Culture Happy Hour," another of Thompson’s claims to fame is that he and Boilen started the Tiny Desk Concerts series in 2008. NPR Music: Stephen Thompson By NPR Music. Past(06/6/2017) 7:30PM. Artists. Support comes from Noosa Yoghurt That fine cream ale brewed in New Glarus. The panelists will be joined by special guest Audie Cornish, host of NPR’s All Things Considered, and other guests, to be announced. My job fluctuates a lot depending on what the most pressing priorities are at any given moment.".
Tags: pop culture happy hour Stephen Thompson Breaking Bad 2010 episodes This byline is for a different person with the same name. The weekly roundtable show, featuring Thompson and his colleagues chopping up the latest happenings in movies, music, books, television and more, is downloaded more than a million times each month. CHRIS WALLACE: i do want to get back to the subject of law and order. The NPR Music writer and Pop Culture Happy Hour panelist shares some of his favorite songs.

On June 6, join the PCHH gang as they gather in front of a live studio audience at The Bell House to record their podcast, and answer what promises to be an enlightening and unpredictable array of audience questions. We had a few interns, a couple of whom are still here as staff," Thompson said. That year he became a full-time employee with The Onion and was editor of The A.V. Holmes began her professional life as an attorney.

Iola to NPR: Always 'Happy Hour' for Stephen Thompson With the NPR podcast 'Pop Culture Happy Hour,' the northeast Wisconsin native writer and editor is now just as much a talker. Along with Bob Boilen and Robin Hilton, co-hosts of another popular NPR podcast, "All Songs Considered," Thompson helped launch NPR Music. Called the Austin 100, the hours-long digital mixtape is offered as a free download and is a great tool for musical discovery. This byline is mine, but I want my name removed. Every week on Pop Culture Happy Hour, NPR contributors Linda Holmes, Stephen Thompson, and Glen Weldon gather for a thoughtful, funny, spirited discussion of the best and worst in pop culture -- movies, TV, books, music, theater, comics, and video games. Tracy Chapman: The Weary And The Innocent. But here’s the thing – and get ready to be jealous: He does it for a living. Club until his departure in 2004. Pop Culture Happy Hour with Mallory Ortberg - NPR Presents From Pines to Palms, NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour crew is venturing down the West Coast for a multi-city tour. In the last few weeks, he and his pals yakked about the wonder of Netflix's "Stranger Things," why "Jason Bourne" didn’t quite work and gave some morning-after reactions to the MTV Video Music Awards. Watch BTS Play A Tiny Desk From Home : NPR, First Listen: The New Pornographers, 'Together'. The former Post-Crescent newspaper carrier was born in Ohio – "in a town appropriately called Painesville," he said with a laugh – moved to Wisconsin at age 10 and stayed here, either in Iola through high school or Madison during and after college, until landing the NPR gig in 2006. "Pop Culture Happy Hour" continues to pick up momentum, with the regular players (including Thompson's close friend and NPR's pop culture blog editor Linda Holmes, the show's host) sometimes gathering for live public tapings. Follow Unfollow. "I would say for the first couple years we were trying to figure out exactly what NPR Music was going to be and I think that Tiny Desk project certainly helped crystallize the sort of stuff we wanted to do.". That video series of live music performances set at Boilen's desk in the NPR Music office have racked up millions of views and have become a rite of passage of sorts for artists.

"I will say I got to Wisconsin as quickly as I could. And got paid for it. During his time at UW-Madison, Thompson helped launch The Onion’s The A.V. "Depending on the time of year I can spend up to four or five hours a week in front of a microphone and then spending much of the remainder of the time preparing to be in front of a microphone," he said. "Mine was about some dumb band. Linda Holmes. Noosa is Aussie-style yoghurt with a uniquely sweet/tart tang and a thick, velvety texture that’s so incredibly good, you have to experience it yourself to believe it. Among the highlights of the year for Thompson (and likely some of his Twitter following of 38,000 strong) is the annual South by Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas. The weekly roundtable is hosted by Linda Holmes, writer and editor of NPR’s pop culture blog Monkey See. 40 songs. He said he makes it from Maryland to Wisconsin at least twice a year and, besides visiting family and friends in the Fox Valley and beyond, stocks up on the Dairyland exclusive. In time, however, her affection for writing, popular culture and the online universe eclipsed her legal ambitions. 1. Updated weekly. $30, 21+ The Bell House. "If you had told me 10 years ago I would be doing live video anywhere I'd have said you were crazy," Thompson said. He’s used that platform, along with panel sit-ins on "All Songs Considered," to give a spotlight to some bands from his home state. "It was a pretty small crew (at the start of NPR Music). Twitter Website Profile POP CULTURE HAPPY HOUR & NPR Linda Holmes writes and edits NPR's entertainment and pop-culture blog, Monkey See.

It's become the stuff of legend around NPR.". "All Songs Considered," which Thompson joins in on from time to time, is now part of the NPR Music brand, along with their First Listen series of advanced album streams, record reviews, columns, features and more. Create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile and upload a portfolio of your best work.

(Fun fact: The P-C also was one of the first outlets to publish him, thanks to his top-three finish in an essay contest when he was in eighth grade. 4:22 0:30. NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour Thought I’d swerve into something more fun and optimistic, like 15 consecutive viewings of The Human Centipede, [environment comes up in presidential debate for first time in 12 years] His official title at NPR, as you’ll hear him recite in each episode’s intro, is writer and editor at NPR Music. Maybe singing the praises of the movie you saw over the weekend? Find yourself often discussing your latest TV obsession with co-workers? POP CULTURE HAPPY HOUR & NPR Linda Holmes writes and edits NPR's entertainment and pop-culture blog, Monkey See. Find the best way to get in touch with Stephen by joining Muck Rack. Club editor and Onion copy editor; snack-eater; TV-watcher; dad. NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour, Linda Holmes, Stephen Thompson, Glen Weldon, and Special Guests! Play on Spotify.

His knack for getting impactful pop culture projects off the ground didn’t begin out east. So even though it's been more than a decade since Thompson put his home state in the rear-view, it's still very much a part of him and the personality he brings to NPR. His current role as writer, editor and talker has been one of evolution. @idislikestephen — 54,094 followers, 7,197 tweets. She has several elaborate theories involving pop culture and monkeys, all of which are available on request. Another Wisconsin product he's championed? He's also edited an armload of books and his entertainment writing has been published in Paste, The Washington Post and The London Guardian. "I was incredibly miserable when (the move to Iola) happened and then realized it was the best thing that could ever have happened to me," Thompson said.

He’s now 44 and lives in Silver Spring, Maryland. They've also started producing short segments on Facebook Live. Club – that’s the entertainment offshoot of The Onion that's not satire – in print and, then in 1996, online. Apparently they can’t cut a candidate’s mic when he interrupts, but have they thought about flinging the offending candidate into a volcano via catapult? NPR Music writer, yakker; Pop Culture Happy Hour + All Songs Considered panelist; long-ago A.V. The Wisconsin culture, including those fine craft beers, cheese curds and (most of all) the Green Bay Packers, find their way into "Pop Culture Happy Hour" discussions fairly regularly. Quietest Friend Pedro The Lion • Phoenix. Like talking new music with friends?