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Nov 29, 2023
How to Be Better Humans
Janeane Bernstein has spread flowers, love and joy since she was young. These days, she also picks up dozens of would-be-tossed bagels each week and drops them off at local shelters. Bernstein has no illusion that this...
Nov 28, 2023
Who’s Calling? The DEA Wants to Know
Just over 10 years ago, reporting by The New York Times and ABC News revealed that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration had for several years been collecting billions of American phone records. The government was paying AT&T to...
Nov 29, 2023
Escaping Hell Through the Power of Doo-Wop
The Helltones’ bright, lively sound combines jazz, R&B, doo-wop, surf music and other diverse elements with the deeply felt lyrics of main songwriter, singer and band leader Darwin Siegaldoud. The band’s uplifting music contradicts their foreboding name.
“I...
Nov 29, 2023
The name of Chef Tomoharu Shono’s latest ramen restaurant, Mensho, combines the Japanese character for “men,” which means “noodle” in Japanese, with the first syllable of...
Nov 28, 2023
Why is the late Ozu Yasujirô idolized by moviemakers and adoring audiences, both in his native Japan and wherever in the world his films are shown?
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