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All caps, bold: MOVIE All caps, bold, asterisk: SHORT* All caps: TV SERIES Italics: Book Quotation marks: “Play” Italics, quotation marks: “Short Story” 01/01 BELOW DECK, PRINCE ANDREW THE MUSICAL, THE BEST OF COMEDY 2022 …

Yes, some of you may be shocked, taken aback, dismayed even- but your subjects needn't sport outrageous costumes nor dangling privates to create worthy environmental portraits. As we all know, indulging desperate characters and graphic …

Photographs are not only worth a thousand words but also a million dollars. Images that have impacted us, offered us the truth, and continued to promote photography as an art form are valuable even today. …

Frankenstein Moved In on the Fourth Floor by Elizabeth Levy, illustrated by Mordicai Gerstein, 1979. Sam lives with his brother and mother on the 19th floor of a large apartment building. One day, when he …

Dan Sinykin, in an interview with Clayton Childress at Public Books makes much of the virtues and cultural desirability of nonprofit publishing. He’s much taken with Jim Sitter who he credits as the founder of …

In April 2024, the European Court of Human Rights’ (ECtHR) Second Section Chamber (Chamber) unanimously found that Turkey violated the immunity, and consequently, the right to liberty and the right to private life of former …

I get asked this question a lot; so often, I will write a general response. This doesn’t replace the personalized advice that I have given and will continue to give, but it will add to …

I’ve been randomly scattering thoughts on TV shows and movies around online in recent months, as a way of gradually getting my reviewing brain working again. Before they evaporate into the ether I thought I’d …

Salvaging 18650 li-ion cells from dead battery pack of a ThinkPad T530.

New brand of T-shirt (Bella Canvas) for the uniform. Fresh colors to mark the start of what's next.

In recognition of those who have served our country in the military, Heather Wilkinson Rojo of the Nutfield Genealogy blog started the Honor Roll Project. It’s an opportunity to publicly document the names on military …

August was a month of bustling cafés, striped parasols, sticky heat, loppis tucked away in courtyards, lines of cyclists, pots of heather, blazing…

It's been another one of those months, where just enough is going on that it's hard to keep track of what, actually, is going on, but not so much that it's impossible to put together …

There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you’ve made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you’ve made a discovery.—Enrico FermiReply via email or Mastodon.