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A few photos from yesterday as the neighborhood prepared for Irene’s visit.  

My personal experience with Irene’s terrible fury

Mrs. Barton felt it was time she brought out the autoharp. “Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ,” she sang. “Who are you, what have you sacrificed?” At Currie elementary in little Fowler, Ohio, we had no idea who Tim Rice or Andrew Lloyd Webber were. We only knew that there was a song getting radio play, and

Here is a piece where I moonlight as a classical music writer.

In 1789, the United States sought to make the union more perfect. The national government was in place and the Constitution ratified, but the states were still wary of the potential excesses of federal power. James Madison drafted 12 articles to amend the Constitution, guaranteeing certain rights to the states and the people. When the

Another trip on The Ventura, the beautifully restored 1920 sloop that an east village bar called d.b.a. regularly hires for three-hour harbor sails. I spent Memorial Day on the Ventura with friends, old and new, tattooed and blank. More photos can be found at this link.

Interviewed here by Beet.TV Managing Editor Andy Plesser at the recent Streaming Media East conference, where I was on a panel with Andy and fellow journalists from WSJ.com, NYTimes.com and Newsy. On that panel and in this interview, I make the prediction I’ve been touting lately: As reporters become more comfortable with cameras in their

What a week. For the first time in its 88-year history, TIME closed three magazine issues in the space of a week (including two special issues on a royal wedding and a recent incident in Pakistan). The multimedia team did several pieces to complement the reporting for the iPad tablet and Time.com. Yesterday, we had

Here’s how I spent last Tuesday night, enjoying the company of many of the influential people named on this year’s TIME 100 list, as well as other notables and previous honorees. The following morning, I edited together a reel of some of the moments from the gala presentations and performances (including music by Bruno Mars

Panbanisha, a bonobo at the Great Ape Trust in Des Moines, uses a computer monitor with more than 400 lexigrams, to speak to Liz Pugh, a researcher at the center. After spending much of the day with Panbanisha’s brother, Kanzi and his 10-month-old son Teco, and scientist Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, Liz told me Panbanisha wanted to