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What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend reading, viewing and listening

Each week, guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: Beware the Woman, Dungeons and Drag Queens, and the DVD menu of The Social Network.
Bob the Drag Queen and JujuBee in the upcoming<em> Dungeons and Drag Queens</em>

This week we listened to some Kelly Clarkson, solved some Rubik's cubes, and stayed up 'till midnight.

Here's what the NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour crew was paying attention to — and what you should check out this weekend.

Beware the Woman

There's a little bit of a mini trend, I think, of stories that are kind of about the mystery of what being pregnant is like that crosses over a bit with controversies in the news over reproductive rights and things like that. And so this is

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