Tamsen and Dan Read the Paper

Okay.  We get it.  It's not just the sexy new businesses that can make you rich...  Looking back at a busy couple of weeks.  (Not so) Grand Old Opera Houses in Maine.  AI and legal drudgery, a surprising result.  Tragic murder in Central Park.  Thoughts from Wynton Marsalis.  The delights of a Firewood Splitting Simulator. Credits: Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff Engineer: Elizabeth Easton...

Remembering Vivian, Tamsen's mom.  Seeing Hadestown on Broadway.  Ordinary people, ordinary businesses, big successes.  Cape Cod Shark Tourism.  US Open.  It's expensive.  Bayeux Tapestry.   Credits: Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

Jeepers! Haven't thought about Homer this much since 10th grade! Odyssey (film), Hadestown (film), Pompeii: Out Of Time (series).  Don't forget Heinrich Schliemann.  US Open.  Andrea Bajani and Italian Family Dynamics. (The Anniversary).  Inflammation. Cast Iron Pans and the Lodge Family.  Abbe Lane. Credits: Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz Art:  Zeke Abuhof...

Woe is Dan.  Block Island Adventures. Jasi sleepover. Decline of Wine.  Picturesque Tuscan Dinners.  Tarot Cards at the Morgan Library, NYC.  DIY Solar Panels - are they worth it?  Umpires vs Technology.  The adorable mice at the Kennedy Center. Hiking with a pole in his side.  That's gotta hurt. Credits: Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

Local Summer Theater at its Best!  South Pacific at the Bucks County Playhouse. More World Cup. Dan looks at Cold Plunge.  Hand crafted knives from Australia.  Fixing Penn Station. Trash Collector.  Lifeguard Janet Fash.  Bayeux Tapestry comes to UK. (it's been a while...)  Why they keep watching Moana.   Credits: Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz Art:  Zeke A...

Walt Disney, business genius.  Margaret Kerry as Tinkerbell.  The end of Aqueduct.  Next steps for residential solar.  Big Beautiful (Longaberger) Basket Building. Richard Glanton and the Barnes Foundation. NYT versus Readers: Top Music Writers.  Sauerkraut is not just for W Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

Happy Birthday Hazel! Happy Birthday Vivian!  Our adventures in Georgia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York as summer heats up.  Fallen Angels, Basura, Moana Jr! Credits: Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

Mysterious Blue Creatures on the Beach in California.  Going to the Circus Vazquez. Tuner.  Mrs. Christie.  Playoffs.  (Basketball & Hockey).  More AI.  It's everywhere.  BYOFood to the Ballpark.  Beautiful Beach Ride. Credits: Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz

Kids say the darndest things... Translating Shakespeare.  It Helps.  How to make a Decision.  Pigeons and People.  They go way back. Hawk Romance.  Neanderthal Root Canal.  Joshua Henry stops the show.  Every Night.  Just in Time makes $$.  New Yorkers won't wear the free tee shirt.  Five Minutes All to Myself. (Five Minutes Peace, by Jill Murphy) Credits: Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff E...

Find a Way or Make One in the parrot world.  Quick Trip to NYC.  Death Becomes Her.  Gotta Dance.  Hello Mike Stoller. Wandering Around the Met. The Christophers with Michaela Coel and Ian McKellen.  The  Frank Obit.  Sumo Wrestlers and Bodybuilders as Caretakers (in Japan).  Mahjong.  Affordable Cars. Credits: Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz Art:  Zeke Abuh...

Dan reminisces about the glories of raking Hard Tru. Where's the chocolate?  The price of tickets.  Green Wood Cemetery welcomes Visitors. How to afford a house in California (you'll need an ADU).  Prehistoric Dice.  Icelandic Hot Dogs.  Eleanor Abbott and Candy Land.  Gainsborough at the Frick. Credits: Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

Tamsen's new favorite basketball player/story.  Also Hatshepsut: Tamsen's favorite female pharaoh.  Plus Max Scherzer: Tamsen's new favorite MLB rehab story.  And Bojangle's: Tamsen's favorite fast food biscuit sandwich.  Not to mention Raphael...well, you get the picture... Credits: Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

The many contributions of Bell Labs.  Coders wrangle their AI Agents.  Artists, their estates, and their estranged families.  Hyrox.  Angelika Saleh.  Alan Trustman. An Owl wakes up in a Gift Shop... Credits: Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

Beautiful window to see at the Met!  Hanging out at the local tavern.  Puttin' on the Shvitz!  Updating the American Girl Doll. Bloomies is Back.  How about Jordan Stolz on a bike? Say good bye to Mr. Clean. Credits: Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

Watching the Winter Olympics.  The end of Mass Market Paperbacks.  House Burping.  Rough Times for Female Tortoises in Macedonia.  Jo Ann Bass and Joe's Stone Crab.  Freedom House Ambulance Service. Football by Chuck Klosterman. Credits: Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

Hunkered down but getting out anyway.  High Spirits in NYC.  The Testament of Ann Lee at the movie theater.  One Battle After Another on the small screen.  More Inspiration from Kpop Demon Hunters.  Mourning the demise of the Department Store.  Metrocard Artists losing their supply.  Ellen Hughes: more than your average hockey mom.  New Restaurant models - loving The Dutchess (Ojai!). Amor Towles...

We're having a REAL WINTER.  Hunkered down watching movies and reading the newspaper.  Lots to think about:  Kpop Demon Hunters bringing Korean culture to the world.  A World in the Making: The Shakers (exhibition) and The Testament of Ann Lee (movie).  A big book about Bennett Cerf by Gayle Feldman.  Wilbur Wood.  John Brody.  How Green Was My Valley. Songs by Sondheim. Credits: Talent:  Tamsen G...

Rancho Gordo.  Yum.  Fun in NYC.  The Plague. Discovering Ted Chapin's Everything Was Possible. Making Oboes.  The New Princeton University Art Museum.  Give Well.   Credits: Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

Summing up the Holidays. Merchants of Joy, Xmas tree sellers documentary.  Marty Supreme. World's Largest Apron Museum.  Phyllis Lee Levin. Redwing Boots.  Remembering Annette, the last of the Dionne Quintuplets. Credits: Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

Another shocking French Heist.  Remembering Mel Leipzig. Colds at night.  Mary Ann Patten: first female captain of a merchant clipper ship.  Pizza business ups and downs.  Stewart Brand and The Maintenance of Everything.  The Family Bond of the NY Giants.  Self Driving Cars. Credits: Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

Looking back over a tasty time.  Musing on Broadway favorites, Tom Stoppard, Mary Poppins.  Pride and Pleasure by Amanda Vaille (Schuyler sisters). Bob Trumpy.  David Lerner (Tekserve).  Terry Martin Hekker (Disregard First Book).  Repair Cafés. Credits: Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

Looking at Lorenz Hart through Ethan Hawke and Richard Linklater.  The Dodgers do it again.  A Stuff Lending Library.  The Louvre Heist.  Paying your legal bills with your museum collection.  Playbill edges toward URL.  Wasp Nest decor.  Shelly Fireman. Credits: Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

More kvetching than kvelling at Saul Zabar's shiva.  Swedish tribute to Philly Skatepark.  Michael McRoberts: football strategist/debt collector.   Coca Leaves.  Blow your kitchen clean.  Rijksmuseum Dollhouse.  Milton Esterow.  Renato Casaro.  Toby Talbot. Credits: Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

And they move... Harvard - attending class is optional.  James Grashow, cardboard sculptor.  Sad farewell to Georgia Brown's.  Saul Zabar. Lake Burping.  Jonathan Clements. Credits: Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

Happy Birthday Pepper.  Keeping the Deer Out.  Block Island Wind Farm.  Bjorn Borg tells his story.  Museum Update:  Fra Angelico/Rembrandt's Dog. Broadway Musicals lose money.  Dome Headed Dinosaur.  Cynthia Ozick.  Marian Burros and the Plum Torte. Credits: Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz Art:  Zeke Abuhoff