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My Poor Marat

Monday, April 29th, 2013
by on Playing Around

“Who are you?” He asks hostilely from the doorway without taking off his fur hat. “What are you doing here? “Living,” she breathes out from

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Love, Loss and What He Wrote

Monday, March 11th, 2013
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“A book is more than just ink and paper, Comrade,” she says crouching on a small wooden chair, a pale shadow against the bleak bare

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Keeping the Mate in Check:
A Chess Lesson in Relationships

Tuesday, January 15th, 2013
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A school. A classroom. A chess board. A few parents, who gather for a chess lesson so they can play with their offspring who regularly

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Always a Best Man, Never the Groom:
Interview with The New York Times Wedding Columnist

Wednesday, October 10th, 2012
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Devan Sipher has been writing about weddings for The New York Times‘ “Vows” column for five years. His father videotaped weddings for a living, so

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Righteous Money— Glimpse of the Famous One Percent

Tuesday, January 10th, 2012
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With the financial meltdown aftermath, the public’s mistrust for bankers, and traders pushing the lay audience to buy stocks again, there’s hardly a better time

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8 - Clevland is a Plum

If New York is a Big Apple, Cleveland is a Plum

Wednesday, August 24th, 2011
by on Living Around

Staycation, a post-financial crisis neologism, had firmly rooted itself in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary changing the American tourism scene for a long time to come if

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Woman Around Town: Megan Boyle—
Improv Comedy Goes Viral

Wednesday, August 17th, 2011
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“I’ll never tire of making people laugh!” Megan Boyle Move over The People Improvisation Theater and Upright Citizens Brigade! Megan Boyle, a rising star of

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Sunday on the Rocks: A Toast to Women’s Friendship

Tuesday, June 21st, 2011
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Sunday on the Rocks, the new dramedy by YOLO! Productions, goes down as smoothly as a single malt scotch. And hits just as hard. Elly

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