Delighted, amused, touched, and quite frankly weirded out (so… many… puppets…) by @thepublicpgh ‘s so very meta adaptation of The Three Musketeers (The Inseparables, by TJ Young)

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Fences ( #AugustWilson #CenturyCycle, 6 of 10)

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A picture of puffy white clouds floating in a blue sky

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The Piano Lesson ( #AugustWilson #CenturyCycle, 4 of 10)

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No, Kirk and Uhura didn’t share the first interracial kiss on television

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reducing print edition to 2 days a week; cites plan to go all digital

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