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Would listen and would audition!

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Across the country, parents are putting their children to bed, reading stories, singing lullabies—and in the back of their minds, they’re worried about what might happen tomorrow after they drop their kids off at school, or take them to a grocery store or any other public space.

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Chess Replay is live! If you like Chess and want to learn more from a very relatable grandmaster, check out our new column.

In today's Chess Replay, James Mason takes on George Henry Mackenzie in a recreation of a chess tournament game in Paris, 1878. "Today’s puzzle is a worthy representation of Mackenzie’s flamboyant, explosive style, replete with sacrifices and king hunts," Daniel Naroditsky says.

So much negativity about Baltimore..drowns out the City's many positives. Including its richly diverse, eclectic neighborhoods. This, Barclay Street in Charles Village

Not the most perfect of example but Peek Polish is going to save my baking sheets! A little more elbow grease and they’ll be back to new!

In October 2020, a then record 62 million households watched Netflix's "The Queen's Gambit." Not since Brooklynite Bobby Fischer became world champion in 1972 had there been such a surge of interest in chess. Now chess is booming. trib.al/6NKtgcz

A new Chess Replay puzzle drops every Thursday! ♔♕ This week take on Alexander Alekhine in a recreation of a 13th World Championship game in The Hague, 1929. trib.al/KwUKmg6

You've been asking for it and now it's here! #Wordle

Marc Lapadula was the absolute best professor I had at Hopkins. He made me a better storyteller. He was so supportive and cheerful, even after I graduated. He remembered me and emailed me whenever he was in town in San Francisco, inviting me to continue working on screenwriting.

Absolutely staggering.

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