Before the Celtics vs Hawks game in March. Jaylen Brown took Kristaps Porzingis to his favorite American Deli in Atlanta and Porzingis said "I could live here.." 1 year later, he's a Hawk.

today, Metro presents one of those projects that can accurately be called "monumental." a (very) long-awaited master class in reporting and writing by Benjamin Weiser that really does not feel like 4,700 words! gift link: nytimes.com/2025/07/09/nyr…

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Today in 1980 - Mayor Edward I. Koch at the premier concert at Kaleidoscope featuring Staten Island rock group Simply Divine #ThisDayInHistory (on.nyc.gov/40AfkZa)

In 1979, Casio made a calculator that doubled as a cigarette lighter, a.k.a. the 'calculighter'. (📷: Joe Haupt)

9 train sighting last week was somehow outdone by an 11 train spotted yesterday on the Upper West Side.

Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming

Caitlin Clark and Paige Bueckers trading DEEP 3's to start the game 🎯 📺 ABC/ESPN+

‘Nazi Creek’ in Alaska Gets a New Name After More Than 70 Years nytimes.com/2025/07/13/us/…

Today I learned that little tiny bat pacifiers exist.

For more than 60 years, the CIA claimed it had little or no knowledge of Lee Harvey Oswald’s activities. That wasn’t true, new documents unearthed by a House task force prove. wapo.st/40Ql3du

Graydon Carter was banished from Swifty Lazar’s Oscar-night fete. Then he seduced the town, took over the event & turned it into one of the most coveted invites in the world. New excerpt from my Condé Nast book is up now at The Hollywood Reporter: hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/life… On sale Tuesday!

Dangerous flooding unfolding across northern and central New Jersey.

We’re thrilled to share the jacket for Thomas Pynchon’s highly anticipated new novel Shadow Ticket, coming October 7, 2025! penguinrandomhouse.com/books/316427/s…

Samuel Beckett / Waiting for Godot Grove Press, 1954

Photo by Dmitry Grafov, Chelyabinsk, USSR, 1980.

Overlooked No More: Polina Gelman: Fearless ‘Night Witch’ Who Haunted Nazi Troops nytimes.com/2025/07/19/obi…

Conviction of Man in Killing of Etan Patz Is Overturned - The New York Times nytimes.com/2025/07/21/nyr…

“Party officials described the draft document as focusing on the 2024 election as a whole, but not on the presidential campaign — which is something like eating at a steakhouse and then reviewing the salad.” nytimes.com/2025/07/19/us/…

Facing Outcry Over Corruption , Zelensky Says He Will Reverse Course nytimes.com/2025/07/23/wor…