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Films That Explain Sports Fandom: Bull Durham
Films That Explain Sports Fandom: Bull Durham
By Sarah Bennett
May 08, 2013

Even to the sports-adverse, Bull Durham​ makes being a true fan seem more poetic than pathetic.

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Book Sword: J.D. Salinger, Colson Whitehead, and W.G. Sebald
Book Sword: J.D. Salinger, Colson Whitehead, and W.G. Sebald
By Kate Gavino
May 08, 2013

Everyone 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?

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Did I Dream This?: Ropa 208
Did I Dream This?: Ropa 208
By Sarah Bennett
May 08, 2013

​Did Ropa 208 exist in the Bronx/outside of my subconscious?

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The Weird and Wonderful Main Street Museum
The Weird and Wonderful Main Street Museum
By Sarah Bennett
May 08, 2013

 The Main Street Museum of White River Junction, Vermont, is dedicated to all things great (and  small, or enormous, and/or salvaged from a strip club fire).

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