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Here’s a quiz: Is it worse for a girl to tear her ACL playing soccer or for a boy to get multiple concussions playing football? Or what about a 9-year-old girl driving a go-cart head-on into a concrete wall, smacking her body into the steering column, hitting her head on pavement and – oops – having her coat catch fire? Is that the worst?
An excerpt from ‘Last Things: Emily Brontë’s Poetry’ by Janet Gezari.
The answers to the quiz from this morning.
A quiz about Tony award winners.
David Perlmutter explores the move from print newspapers to online-only editions.
Who does Tony hate?
Jennifer got a gleam in her eye – and she told me all about her favourite title ‘A Geishas Journey’. It was a book about young Japanese girl who sets out to master the ancient art of being geisha. I was fascinated about young Ruriko’s transformation from a school girl into the adult geisha, Komomo.
Ammon, an expert dictionary reader, ponders Mayor Bloomberg’s dislike of the word “maintain”.
Pat Aufderheide chooses ten great docs from recent years.
An excerpt from Cynthia Freeland’s ‘But is it Art?’.
Hischak looks at Tony award favorites.
What makes a good autobiography?
The origins of Blogwars.
Earlier today we posted a Mother’s Day crossword puzzle by Adam Fromm. It was a particularly peculiar puzzle; with many literary lexicons to get the matriarchs mulling! In this post, we provide the answers, including the ‘crossed words’, and the curious path traced across the grid. Can you deliver?
David Perlmutter reflects on The Daily Show.
A crossword puzzle for Mother’s Day.