March 2015 Archives
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Mad Women
My Date With Don Draper
The TV series Mad Men is set to begin its final season. Finally we’ll know how many women—and how much Proust—it takes to make Don Draper happy.
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The 2015 Tournament of Books: Week Three Wrap-Up
Another week is in the books for the 2015 Tournament of Books. Download your updated brackets here to see what’s left to go in this year’s tourney. ...
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Spoofs & Satire
Death Means No Reversible Error
Whenever lethal injection drugs are unavailable, Utah will allow death-row prisoners to choose death by firing squad, citing it as the most “humane” option.
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Dispatches
The Accidental Actor
Stumbling onto a movie set in Los Angeles—and then staying there for as long as humanly possible—offers lessons in acting and reality.
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Gallery
Get Out of Jail Free
The bachelorette party can seem like a crude, commercial ritual. But at its core are emotional ties that bind.
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The Rooster
The 2015 Tournament of Books: Week Two Wrap-Up
We just finished the second week of the 2015 Tournament of Books. Download the updated brackets here to see the gameplay thus far, and how far we have left to go. ...
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Beliebe in Yourself
Big Time
When viral stardom strikes, your entire future is suddenly within reach—would you capture it or just let it slip?
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Spoofs & Satire
HBO’s Treme Corners You at a Party
When art is staring you in the face, you can’t look away.
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The Rooster
The 2015 Tournament of Books: Week One Wrap-Up
We’re one week into the 2015 Tournament of Books. You can grab some updated brackets here that reflect which books have been knocked out and which books remain in...
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Dispatches
Home Sweet Sweden
In a life of perpetual movement, the moment arrives when you find yourself desperate for stillness.
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Breaking the News Cycle
Crazy in Love With Kansas
Brief updates on important stories that have tumbled off the front page—“Carry That Weight,” Brownbackonomics, the ice bucket challenge, homophobia in Russia, and more.
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Gallery
Mars on Mars
An artist’s ethereal treatment of the cosmos and the desert win her a massive, devoted following.
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Gallery
A Perfect, Unattainable Romance
Niagara Falls is known as the perfect place for a romantic honeymoon, or a spectacular death.