Let me assure you that I — not A.I. — wrote this column. I feel this statement is necessary after reading a New York Times article titled, “What Do Students Lose When They Stop Writing?” Writer Dana Goldstein begins with this sobering paragraph: “After years of studying how ...
They used to be called “Stage-Door Johnnies,” a term coined in the 19th century to describe the young men who huddled outside stage doors at theaters in hopes of meeting actresses or chorus girls. If they became too aggressive or otherwise obnoxious, the theater’s bouncer would give them ...
I was sitting in my shoebox-sized apartment, pumping up the tires on my bike and snacking on crickets, when I heard that the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDoT) is going to make bike riding more dangerous. According to Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy, giving bicyclists dedicated ...
Celebration of America’s 250th birthday now safely behind us, let’s see how much attention you’ve been paying to other world events. Each question below has at least one correct answer. 1. After unveiling the refurbished Reflecting Pool on the National Mall, President Trump claimed ...
The Reflecting Pool between the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C, has been refurbished at last. The project took two months — long enough that the statue of a seated Honest Abe in the Lincoln Memorial bent the elbow of its right arm and rested its chin on its ...
Rocky Balboa and Clubber Lang decided to have lunch together in Washington, D.C., to commemorate the 45th anniversary of their first matchup for the heavyweight championship in 1981. Lang, then a brash young challenger who taunted Balboa mercilessly before the fight, had knocked out Balboa in ...
