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reading One year with the 12th-generation Kindle Paperwhite SE Jason Weisberger

academy awards Watch Chuck Jones' 1965 Oscar-winning cartoon about a lovesick like and a dallying dot Ellsworth Toohey

folk music Folk Legend Martin Carthy wants to play in your living room Séamus Bellamy

Environment Eco-warrior chefs flee Sweden, leave 158 barrels of sh*t as parting gift Ellsworth Toohey

politics Bezos, Zuck & Musk learn expensive lesson in Trump economics Ellsworth Toohey

we don't deserve dogs This Doberman gives us his best "Blue Steel" Jennifer Sandlin

the power of music A horse stops in his tracks when he hears a woman's beautiful voice (video) Carla Sinclair

fox news Oxford-educated MAGA Senator's Foghorn Leghorn accent is phony (video) Mark Frauenfelder

tabloids Meghan Markle's "casting couch" and an Epstein "sex slave" murdered in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

Heavy Metal Tom Jones shakes it up in high-energy heavy metal mashup Rusty Blazenhoff

art Artemizia Foundation in Bisbee, Arizona hosts a spectacular collection of contemporary, street, and graffiti art Jennifer Sandlin

trump "Country Trumpkin" imagines country music hits from the former president Elías Villoro

movies John Waters lists his favorite films of 2022 David Pescovitz

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Comics Comic legend Alex Ross takes Marvel's first family into uncharted territory in "Fantastic Four: Full Circle" Devin Nealy

Watches are a confidence trick invented by the Swiss Second-hand luxury watches flood the market as the crypto collapse continues Jason Weisberger

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History Benjamin Lay was the best radical vegan Quaker hunchback abolitionist of the 1700s Thom Dunn