Carolyn as Hodel and Peter as Lazar in the Stage Right homeschool Fiddler on the Roof.

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Those emails can wait.

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Now you can fact-check Trump’s tweets — in the tweets themselves

The Washington Post, which was one of about a dozen news outlets that Trump banned from his campaign events for a few months this summer, has released a Chrome browser plugin that adds Post-sponsored commentary into Trump’s Twitter feed. Sometimes the Post says the commentary will simply add context, but they are announcing it as…

Ginger Christ Superstar!

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When she isn’t playing Hodel, she’ll be dancing with a bottle.

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Quoth the ramen, "Eat some more!"

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Knee-jerk sharing of memes denigrates the truth.

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Facebook’s director of media tries to appease news industry

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