music Springsteen covers Pogues classic on new MacGowan tribute album Séamus Bellamy

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ice cream Twin Pines' vintage ice cream clown is deliciously unsettling Popkin

History 1930 film may be the first how-to video in history Grant St. Clair

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websites The obscure airfields of America Rob Beschizza

Science The Vatican has run an astronomical observatory since 1774 Ellsworth Toohey

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books New biography captures Doonesbury's 50-year sweep of American life Ruben Bolling

art Giant crop postcards turned oversize produce into folk art Popkin

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Science These 100-year-old flounder photos look like abstract design studies Popkin

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politics Maryland the first state to regulate grocery surveillance pricing Rob Beschizza