October 24, 2011: Afternoon
- Zooey Deschanel singing the national anthem suggests there are always new ways to desecrate America.
- The average American three-year-old can recognize 100 brands
- Business notes on Green Bay.
- St. Louis's Rzepczynski stacked against other hard-to-spell baseball names
- Interview with the batter who inspired Haruki Murakami to write a novel.
- Germany unsure how to cope with influx of college students, largest crop since the fall of the Wall.
- Cheese found to be the most frequently shoplifted good.
- Globe five-month investigation finds 48% of fish sold in Boston restaurants goes by the wrong name; never trust "white tuna."
- Ten years ago, the iPod launched.
- The long-form guide to the most interesting articles about and by Woody Allen.
- Scariest comic books of all time.
- Everything you need to know about Hergé.
- Everything you need to know about folk-punk, Orgcore, and/or Dadpunk.