On-air challenge: I’m going to give you some four-letter words. In each case, the first two letters are the first two letters of a well-known U.S. city, The last two letters are that city’s state postal abbreviation.

Ex. SAGA  — Savannah, Georgia

1. GAIN
2. DECO
3. LINE
4. JAMS
5. LIAR
6. BIND
7. NOVA
8. POOR
9. POME
10. PONY
11. LOCA

Last week’s challenge: Last week’s challenge comes from listener Michael Schwartz, of Florence, Ore. Take the name of a watercraft that contains an odd number of letters. Remove the middle letter and rearrange the remaining ones to name a body of water. What words are these?

Challenge answer: Gondola –> lagoon

Winner: Ann Kritzer of Coral Springs, Florida

This week’s challenge: This week’s challenge comes from listener Rawson Scheinberg, of Northville, Mich. Name a U.S. state capital. Then name a world capital. Say these names one after the over and phonetically you’ll get an expensive dinner entree. What is it?
 
Submit Your Answer

If you know the answer to the challenge, submit it here by Thursday, September 12th, 2024 at 3 p.m. ET. Listeners whose answers are selected win a chance to play the on-air puzzle. Important: include a phone number where we can reach you.

The 76th Primetime Emmy Awards are this Sunday night, returning to a regular schedule after the previous Emmys were delayed due to Hollywood actors and writers strikes. Here’s what you need to know to watch the ceremony.

When are the Emmy Awards this year?

The Emmy Awards will air at 8 p.m. ET / 5 p.m. ET Sunday on ABC, with an official red carpet pre-show on ABC beginning at 7 p.m. ET / 4 p.m. PT. (Fans hoping to tune in earlier can watch E! beginning at 5 p.m. ET.) The Emmys ceremony will take place at the Peacock Theater in downtown Los Angeles, hosted by father-son duo Eugene and Dan Levy, co-creators and stars of Schitt’s Creek.

How do I watch them?

The live broadcast will air on ABC. Viewers without network TV access can watch the awards via streaming subscriptions that include live television, like YouTube TV, Hulu+ Live TV or Fubo. The Emmys will also be available to watch on Hulu, but not until Monday.

What to watch for

The FX series Shogun leads nominations this year on the drama side, with 25 nods. Others in contention for the top drama spot include Slow Horses, 3 Body Problem and The Morning Show, among others.

FX’s The Bear also set a comedy record with 23 nominations, introducing questions about the relevance of Emmy categories. (Despite its comedy accolades from the Television Academy, NPR’s TV critic calls The Bear “the best drama on TV.”) Other titles in contention for outstanding comedy include Abbott Elementary, Hacks, Only Murders in the Building, Reservation Dogs and more.

A number of actors are first-time nominees this year, including Ryan Gosling, who’s nominated for a guest role on Saturday Night Live. Greta Lee also snagged her first nomination for The Morning Show.

Claudia Rivera, a Peruvian-Parisian creative director and photographer, is known for building worlds in Paris that are colorful and communal, events that feel like a home away from home for the Latino community there. Rivera pulls up to Holy Grounds Coffee & Tea in El Sereno for our interview between L.A. meetings. She is wearing jorts, a subversive basic tank and fresh, jewel-encrusted nails done by @leslydidthem with rings on every finger. Her thick waist-length hair, an emblematic feature of her Peruvian identity, flows freely. Rivera’s projects and photography are also an intersection of her cultures, with details inspired by her family or community, who are often her greatest subjects and audience, infused with the energy and street style of her hometown, Paris.

Rivera organized the first monthlong Latino festival in Paris, Sabor Latino Month, by crowdfunding thousands of euros via other young Latinos in the city who were craving something like this, and eventually getting it sponsored by Adidas Paris. Her annual event, Ñañaykuna, which started in 2021, celebrates the community of Latina women in Paris by highlighting their work with music, dancing and food. One year, Rivera took portraits of all the participants in her signature warm style. Now, Rivera, who just launched her new creative agency Amaru, is working on a pop-up inspired by a mercado you’d find in a Latin American country, bringing a collection of Latino brands from around the world — including L.A.’s Amor Prohibido, Kids of Immigrants and Equihua — to Paris on Sept. 14-15, right before Fashion Week. “As a Franco-Peruvian girl, I grew up without clothes that represented me,” says Rivera. “Clothing is something that can help you represent yourself. It’s part of your personality.” The idea with the event, called Lo Nuestro, is to show the diversity among Latino-owned fashion brands.

Claudia wears Roberto Sanchez animal print suit, Maison Margiela Tabi shoes, Shilita Créations jewelry.

“I was always checking the events in Los Angeles and it was my dream to be there and to see [that],” says Rivera. “I think being Latino here is very complicated because of everything. But there is also the privilege that you can live in a country where you exist, where your community is present. That’s what I want to do in my life: I want to create the space that I dreamed for when I was a kid. And I want this for the next generation. I want to show that we exist in Paris. To share our culture with the other communities.”

This is what Image Making means to me: Ever since I was a little, I’ve understood the power and importance of images. My parents were one of the first Peruvians to have papers in France. They came to France in the ’90s. In 2003, my dad went back to Peru for the first time in 10 years after he left for France. My dad went to visit the families of all of our Peruvian friends in France to film their homes, greetings from their families. When he came back, my mom cooked a big meal and everyone came over to our house. In 2005 I went to Peru for the first time — I was 5 years old. I started as a kid to take the camera y empezaba yo tambien a querer filmar. It’s not just the images but the process. To make the images, you also need to connect, to take time. Es un momento de care también. Las imágenes te ayudan a conectar el mundo, conectar tu comunidad, tu familia. I know that my family, to see me always taking pictures of our culture, they started to say, “OK, maybe this is something beautiful.” By taking the photos, I helped them to value their daily life. I feel that los archivos son muy importantes.

Claudia wears her own Adidas jacket.

What is the common thing or feeling that all of my work shares: El punto común es mostrar América Latina y highlight Latin American cultures. To tell our stories from our point of view.

My approach to personal style looks and feels like: I get very inspired by the culture of my family, but in the details. I started photography doing very colorful photos, with a lot of pink, a lot of orange, yellow, because these are the colors that are very present in traditional skirts in Peru. I include flowers in my work because flowers are present in the culture of my family. Hair is also very important for us.

What does my Paris feel like: I love Paris because it’s a city where there is a lot of diversity. It asks us to mix from all cultures. I feel very rich to have friends from all over the world. Growing up in Paris helped me understand Islam, other religions, other cultures from North African, South Africa, from Bangladesh. I have friends que vienen de todas partes del mundo. Compartimos mucho.

My work reveals about the city: It reveals that the Latino community exists [in Paris]. My projects don’t only interest people of the community — though of course they also like it porque es una expresión que we’ve always wanted to have — but there are also people from other communities that want to understand. And I think that’s a beautiful part of it: todos queremos abrirnos y entender las otras culturas.

Makeup Jade Benaim
Hair Santa Mari Juanna
Nails Alicia Faucher
Special thanks Cecile Armand, Hélène Tchen, Manon Guerby, Santa Mari Juanna Lab

Claudia wears Gypsy Sport crochet dress, Maison Margiela Tabi shoes, Shilita Créations jewelry.