For Attribution: Mother’s Day
“She brought you forth out of the cloud of genetics and fed and clothed you and taught you to wipe yourself and say Please and Thank you and never expected you to pay her back, only that you behave appropriately …
Author: Margie Smith Holt
For Attribution: An Injured War Photographer’s Words to Boston Bombing Victims
There are two kinds of reporters in television news. The ones who make themselves the boring, cookie-cutter center of every story. And the ones who know how to step aside and use quotes, sound, images–plus a few choice words of …
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For Attribution: Messing With the Wrong City
From an Op-Ed in The New York Times by author and Boston native Dennis Lehane: But I do love this city. I love its atrocious accent, its inferiority complex in terms of New York, its nut-job drivers, the insane logic of …
O Sweet Spontaneous Earth
by e. e. cummings O sweet spontaneous earth how often have the doting fingers of prurient philosophers pinched and poked thee , has the naughty thumb of science prodded thy beauty . how often have religions taken thee upon their scraggy knees squeezing …
The Jig is Up (The Reel Deal About Irish Music)
St. Patrick’s Day comes but once a year, but real aficionados of Irish music will tell you that good craic can be found all year long. (Why, we’re writing this from the Landmark Tavern, est. 1868, in New York City, …
You Must Remember This:
“Digital platforms are worthless without content. They’re shiny sacks with bells and whistles, but without content, they’re empty sacks. It is not about pixels versus print. It is not about how you’re reading. It is about what you’re reading.” –Maureen …
The Benefits of Bare Feet
(A Small Case for Going Barefoot) Originally published in the Sun Times magazine, Jan/Feb 2013
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In case you are wondering what that background is on our website (we’re talking to you, junior), The Wall Street Journal explains all.
My Funny Valentine
Romeo and Juliet. Pelléas et Mélisande. A tale of star-crossed lovers and a rising star.
Baby, It’s Cold Outside…
Need to escape the winter weather? How about a quick trip to the Caribbean–Mad Men-style. Take a step back in time and explore the first modern hotel in the U.S. Virgin Islands in this two-part series published in St. John’s …