February 20, 2014
A 15-year friendship endures 84 miles of biking, countless missteps and, worst of all, the environs of Western Massachusetts.
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A 15-year friendship endures 84 miles of biking, countless missteps and, worst of all, the environs of Western Massachusetts.
Read MoreUndergoing an “energy pull,” in which tethered hooks are pierced through your back and then pulled on.
Read MoreFrom the natural gas fields of Northern Alberta to the Argentine Pampas, a writer wrestles with Tolstoy’s masterpiece.
Read MoreA writer visits the American Girl Café in an attempt to discover how dolls dine
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In the final installment of Building Hamlet, set designer Meredith B. Ries offers her final reflections on what she considers "[an] experiment with blending humor and tragedy, evil and humanity... a dark jibe at religious faith, at royalty, at ambition. [Hamlet is] a ghost story and a love story."
Read MoreOur own Buzz Poole was moderating and BBP’s publisher Elizabeth Koch was one of the panelists, so I kind of had to be there, and I thought it would be a boring 45 minutes of people giving their little presentations and then being outlandishly supportive of each other, which is sort of what you do at conferences in any given industry. But it was definitely not that.
Read MoreMeredith Ries, a set designer in her final year at the Yale School of Drama, is writing about her design process for Hamlet at the Yale Repertory Theater, opening March 21. This week, the crews are loading in: watch as they begin to transform an empty stage into Elsinore.
Read MoreAn exploration of the Japanese retailer Muji in the first installment of a series dedicated to finding age-appropriate retail.
There comes a time in every young woman’s life when she must suck it up, be a quitter, and leave the Girl Scouts without looking back. For Julia Langbein, that special time was only a year after she joined. But were the Girl Scouts of America ever more than pint-sized cookie dealers?
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