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

    Each week, guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: Sampha's album Lahai, the film Tori and Lokita, rewatching Doctor Who, and the Phillies, sort of.
    by Stephen Thompson Oct 27, 2023 3 minutes
    Lokita (Joely Mbundu) and Tori (Pablo Schils) are two migrant children making their way in Belgium in <em>Tori and Lokita</em>.

    This week, Hasan Minhaj elaborated, friendships were in demand, and the actors' strike carried on.

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

    Sampha's new album Lahai

    is well known as a guest on a lot of other people's records — you can hear him on Kendrick Lamar's and Alicia Keys' records. But he just released his own It is absolutely gorgeous — it's a very soothing, comfortable, genre-straddling sound) I've been listening to this record pretty constantly for a couple of weeks now, and I absolutely love it.

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