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One of the fun features of the lull between Christmas and New Year’s is recalling all the highs, lows, bests, and worsts that hit us throughout the preceding year. A recent example of this, specifically in the fashion arena, graced CNN’s pages the other day, sporting the provocative headline, “2025: The year of the naked
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GQ magazine held its 25th “Men of the Year” event in London last Wednesday. Talents from across the fields of culture, sports, and entertainment gathered for the glitzy gala celebrating the British men’s style magazine’s honorees for Men of the Year. Curiously, over a third of the personalities on that list were women. Of the
READ MOREFor children, Fall is a time of new beginnings. A new school year begins, fall baseball or football practices start, and everything that happened last year becomes the foundation of new possibility. I’ve encouraged a family tradition with my three boys that we refer to as Manly Movie Night. The theme of it is fairly simple: we
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It is hard not to have seen the 1971 film adaptation of Fiddler on the Roof or a stage performance of the play. It is a staple in high school drama clubs across the United States and the world. Many communities have a local playhouse that has at one time or another put on a
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Almost single-handedly, Sir Francis Bacon popularized the scientific method. He’s credited, too, with inspiring “the modern world as we currently know it.” In his remarkable works (such as his famous Essays), Bacon drew heavily on ancient literature and proverbs: He looked to the past as well as toward the future. In our fast-changing times, we
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Whether it’s First Lady cookie bake-offs, 7-Eleven coffee drinkers, or Halloween mask sales, there have been any number of fun and admittedly crazy ways to predict the outcome of presidential elections in recent years. But there’s also a longstanding and largely successful way to predict the nominee for the party not currently in the White
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