A new headshot for the girl.

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This is a challenging writing task. Presidential biographies are a staple of children’s book publishing, and of classrooms across the country. Nonfiction for children is a surging category, particularly in light of a Common Core mandate that schools put greater emphasis on it in their curriculum. Publishers like Penguin Young Readers, Scholastic and Time for…

Media Companies Are Getting Sick of Facebook

All of us with Facebook accounts do work for Mark Zuckerberg. Our tagging, sharing, and liking gives Facebook valuable information that advertisers use to reach us. This article describes how Facebook has been courting news organizations, asking them to provide content tailored to Facebook’s needs. Facebook is not interested in an informed, educated public that…

Fathers’ Day: Showing “The Princess Bride”

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Snap’s share price sinks, trades just above IPO price

NASDAQ.com throws shade via Reuters: Snapchat is popular among people under 30 who enjoy applying bunny faces and vomiting rainbows onto their selfies, but man yon Wall Street are critical of its high valuation, slowing user growth and lack of profitability. Joel Randewich, NASDAQ.com Similar:Take a moment to appreciate these good COVID-19 statisticsMay 1, my…

Everything is beautiful at the ballet.

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The girl will be dancing as the Gold Fairy in Laurel Ballet's Sleeping Beauty tonight at 7.

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“If It’s Not Baroque, Don’t Fix It” Cogsworth Broadway Supercut

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More rehearsing. More dancing.

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Trying out a new lens to capture creepy-toy-come-to-life choreography.

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Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech

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The Language of Gender Violence

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