Stephen Thompson
NPR Music writer, yakker; Pop Culture Happy Hour and New Music Friday host; long-ago A.V. Club editor and Onion copy editor; snack-eater; dad.
https://www.npr.org/people/5244882/stephen-thompson
Starter Packs
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Pop Culture Happy Hour hosts + producers
Follow the folks who work full-time to make NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour happen. (Working on a second Starter Pack for our many wonderful contributors.)
@celiasgregory.bsky.social
Morning Host on 91.ONE WNXP 🎧 A voice that is dark like tinted glass. Fast, thorough, sharp as a tack. Touring the facility & picking up slack.
@mishellbaker.bsky.social
Author of the Arcadia Project trilogy etc. Terminal cancer, incurable optimist. Currently 32% Novelist 68% Dungeon Master Enjoy life. Be someone you would love. Make things better.
@thehighsign.bsky.social
Film critic at Slate; co-host of the Slate Culture Gabfest podcast; repped by the Cheney Agency; member NYFCC. Camera Man, my book on Buster Keaton, is out: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Camera-Man/Dana-Stevens/9781501134203
@lizroscher.bsky.social
no longer writing at yahoo sports. still podcasting with hittin’ season. sports. history. drag. cooking. endless crafting. philadelphia. leftism. not in that order. she/her
@evanryt.bsky.social
Writer. Contributor: Pitchfork. Alum: Radio Milwaukee, WMSE, Shepherd Express. Bylines: NPR, The AV Club, Washington Post, Spin, Stereogum, Paste.
@kibblesmith.com
Writer; Television, Comic Books, Book Books. Married to @jenashleywright.bsky.social. Dad. Find me at http://kibblesmith.substack.com
@stephaniejudy.bsky.social
Freelance graphic designer & arts journalist, tripod cat mom, living in DC. Words at Washington City Paper, The InQueery, Broccoli Magazine, DCist (RIP)
@littlemascara.bsky.social
Chicago’s number one PBS fan and living garden party. Divine hag of the ashes.
@thompsonval.bsky.social
Temporarily distracted by politics (& cat videos). Eclectic pop-culture tastes. Enjoy antiques, audio in a variety of forms, and modern technology. #Feminist #Resist Sharing vintage art 🖼️ and cat photos 📸🐈⬛ as a distraction.
@jiggyraps.bsky.social
editor, npr music; writer all over previously: the new yorker, pitchfork author, changes: an oral history of tupac shakur sheldonpearce.com
@clearwing3.bsky.social
Author: Funny Because It's True: How The Onion Created Modern American News Satire. Agent: Daniel Greenberg, lgrliterary. Wisconsin native, fmr Bostonian/Roslindalian. NEH grant recipient. The House On The Rock shaped my brain. Wenc rhymes with sense
@ayesharascoe.bsky.social
Host of NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday, Editor and Author of HBCU Made, Mother of 3, Proud Howard U graduate
@drewmagary.bsky.social
Defector.com. SFGate.com. Six books. I'm just here for a good time.
@tamarakeithnpr.bsky.social
Senior White House Correspondent, NPR, co-host of the NPR Politics Podcast, Politics Monday on PBS NewsHour. Carries a big fuzzy microphone. Loves concerts, cooking, running and my boys.
@scottdetrow.bsky.social
Journalist at NPR. I host All Things Considered and assorted podcasts.
@steveinskeep.bsky.social
@ellemannion.bsky.social
@jonaht.bsky.social
@taraariano.com
I try to be good hard worker man, but refrigemator so messy. So, so messy. | tara@taraariano.com
@lizmetzger.bsky.social
@melanielynskey.bsky.social
@internethippo.bsky.social
@emilystjams.bsky.social
Writer! TV: Yellowjackets. Novel: Woodworking (out now). Podcasts: Arden. Journalism: Vox, A.V. Club, NYT, etc. Like a large language model but for my formative trauma.
@thompsonmaggie.bsky.social
Mom and Dad let me keep my comics. Science fiction, fantasy, comics, and other pop culture can enrich life. Celebrity-adjacent, award-winning pop-culture nerd.
@anti-knowledge.com
Author, http://anti-knowledge.com, columnist @nationalreview.bsky.social
@leighmedeiros.bsky.social
Earthling 🌍 The 1-Minute Writer @simonandschuster 📕 screenwriter ✍🏼 occasional maker 🎨 cacao evangelist ☕️ student of trees🌲 peddler of sparkle emojis✨ linktr.ee/leighmedeiros
@richdahm.bsky.social
I re-arrange the alphabet into bundles to induce amusement. The Onion, The Colbert Report, The Middle, The Croods: Family Tree. I specialize in projects beginning with "The."
@pixelatedboat.bsky.social
The 76th most followed account on bluesky. I will NOT be updating this ranking when it’s no longer true
@jessethorn.bsky.social
Host of NPR's Bullseye, Judge John Hodgman and Jordan Jesse Go. Founder and worker-owner of Maximum Fun. Four-time professional actor.
@anastasiat.bsky.social
Knight-Wallace Fellow at UMichigan 24-25. Culture correspondent at NPR, music critic at the New York Times. ah-nah-STAH-zee-ah tsee-OOL-kahs/Αναστασία Τσιούλκα(ς)/اناستازيا تسيولكاس
@natechinen.bsky.social
Writing and talking about music. Forever listening. WRTI, NPR, formerly NYT. Author of a Substack newsletter, The Gig, and a book called 'Playing Changes: Jazz For the New Century.'
@tbquirk.bsky.social
I sing in Too Much Joy and Wonderlick and work in tech (Rhapsody/Google Play/Freeform/Zedge). I tend to post about music, movies, and the death throes of democracy.
@dgreene.bsky.social
Retired Public Radio Lifer. Never hosted Morning Edition, but produced Car Talk, edited News at WBUR, and played indy rock records on WMBR.
@warnerblaster.bsky.social
Nashville Realtor, Aftyn Behn's Treasurer, Amqui Station Board President, #recoveryposse
@kphipps3000.bsky.social
Movies, etc. for GQ, Vulture, Ringer and more. Co-host Next Picture Show. With @scotttobias.bsky.social I write The Reveal: http://thereveal.substack.com. Author of AGE OF CAGE. He/Him
@thejchoward.com
Producer | @npr.org (HowIBuiltThis). Oakland-born, first of his name, cutter of tape, hero of fools. Previously: TED Radio Hour, KPFA, KALW.
@ohitsbigron.bsky.social
👨🏿💼 - ohitsBigRon studios, LLC 🎙️ - Leaving the Theater 🎙️ - Weight For It 📖🎤 - True Story w/ Ed & Randall S1 on Peacock
@bedatri.bsky.social
Arts and Entertainment Editor at @Inquirer.com | Film programmer at DOC NYC, SFFILM | NYC/PHL via CCU/DEL | bchoudhury@inquirer.com
@mikekatzif.bsky.social
Producer, NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour. Photographer, music maker, writer, doer of things.