"Lucky Stiff" tells the scheme of an Englishman who is forced to take the body of his recently murdered uncle on a vacation to Monte Carlo. It also features a familiar face for Sarasota-area TV viewers.

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"67," pronounced "six seven," spread from a rap song, through sports and social media, to classrooms and homes across the U.S. But even the artist who coined it struggles to define it.

The Gulf Coast Jazz Collective opens its season with "A tribute to Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong." Music Director Andrew Kurtz says the Gulf Coast Jazz Collective plays the best professionally curated jazz in Southwest Florida. On November 13, the Collective will be playing all of Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong's classic hits.

Rom-coms, heist flicks, a sports/horror mashup, a pair of Broadway musicals, a biopic of The Boss, festival award winners and lots of showbiz sagas — here's what NPR critics are watching this fall.

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What does Damn Yankees, a 1950s musical have to say to audiences in 2025? With its themes of selling your soul to the devil to get a win or power or beauty, quite a bit.

An unusual spike in seabirds that are unable to walk is worrying local wildife experts

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Ana Gonzalez and cellist Yo-Yo Ma about their new podcast 'Our Common Nature' from WNYC, which connects music with nature and place.

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