January 3, 2018 0 Teddy Roosevelt’s Secret “In the land of the blind,” the idiom goes, “the one-eyed man is king.” The origins of that saying [...]
January 2, 2018 0 The Panhandler Who Returned a Treasure If you went to the Country Club Mall in Kansas City, Missouri, in early 2013, you may have met Billy Ray [...]
December 29, 2017 0 The Weekender, December 29, 2017 1) “The Week My Husband Left And My House Was Burgled I Secured A Grant To Begin The Project That [...]
December 27, 2017 0 The Man Who Takes Apostrophes Very Seriously On April Fools’ Day, 2010, comedy singer “Weird Al” Yankovic uploaded a twenty-second-long [...]
December 26, 2017 0 The New York Police Department’s Giant Problem Pictured above is the late André René Roussimoff, better known as André the Giant. He was a literal giant [...]
December 22, 2017 0 The Weekender, December 22, 2017 1) “How to Hire Fake Friends and Family” (The Atlantic, 22 minutes, November 2017). I’ve [...]
December 20, 2017 0 The People Who Protect Chewbacca Bigfoot, also known as Sasquatch, isn’t real. It’s a legend — a man-ape roaming the forests [...]
December 19, 2017 0 Why You Don’t Mug a Magician David Seth Kotkin, pictured above, is the most successful solo entertainer in history — his shows have [...]
December 18, 2017 0 The Accidental Masterpiece Keith Jarrett, pictured above, isn’t a household name, but among jazz and piano aficionados, he’s [...]
December 15, 2017 0 The Weekender, December 15, 2017 1) “Can You Say . . . Hero?” (Esquire, 34 minutes, November 1998). A profile of Mr. Rogers. [...]