WMUR is the only local news station in the state of New Hampshire, and if you're wondering how much interesting news NH has on a regular basis (or really ever, except for during election years), then you have yet to experience the pleasure of small-town news, let alone from a place as amazing and odd as the Granite State.
Read MoreNew York City has a plethora of reading spots, but by far the largest is Central Park. With 843 acres to roam, it may be difficult deciding where to hunker down with a book, so here are some of our favorite spots paired with complementary reading recommendations.
Read MoreLike many black belt TV nerds, I loved Veronica Mars, still tell friends to give it a shot (and feign surprise when they lose a weekend to compulsively watching the entire first season). I share a hope with the show's former star, Kristen Bell and tens of thousands of other nerds on Kickstarter that a Veronica Mars movie is always possible. In the past three hours, they've picked up over half a million dollars in financing.
Read MoreEveryone from Galileo to Jim Morrison to countless Scrabble wordsmiths have played around with letters to form their perfect anagrams. We take literary-minded words and anagram them to find ... well, that's up to you. A deeper meaning? A hidden truth? Or just a happy coincidence?
Read MoreLord knows that every major sports league keeps its athletes on as tight a leash as possible, pushes them to be involved in charity and promotes the shit out of anything resembling an athlete's human interest story (Manti Teo, 'ello!). In the end, however, no matter how much we wish it were so, being great at a sport does not automatically make a pro athlete a great person, and the higher the pedestal we put those winning athletes on (Lance Armstrong, Oscar Pistorius), the harder they fall.
Read MoreAnne Carson’s new book Red Doc> inspired me to think of other works of poetry that made me feel, in Dickinson's words, "as if the top of my head were taken off." Here’s the result: from an Ouija board-assisted volume to a "starving hysterical naked" masterpiece.
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