For teens recovering from the Parkland shooting, performing in a production of “Spring Awakening” provides a measure of healing.
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They Don’t Do Sadness
A feature on a teen production of the musical “Spring Awakening” in rehearsals at Barclay Performing Arts in West Boca Raton — near the city of Parkland — including some kids who attend Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and were present during the shooting. The show, about teens in 19th century Germany discovering their sexuality, provides […]
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Lili Loofbourow, Rachel Monroe, Benjamin Weiser, Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, and Megan Greenwell.
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The Baller Women of the Billiards Tour
Sometimes men get a little antsy when the women are running the billiards tables.
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One Georgia Farmer’s Experiment in Racial Equality
Minister Clarence Jordan founded Koinonia Farm in 1942 to be, in his words, a “demonstration plot for the kingdom of God.” Can it endure in our racially charged modern climate?
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A Pact Between You, God, and the Dance Floor
Dancing the nights away with bar and bat mitzvah professionals known as “party motivators.”
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Is This House Haunted, or Is That Just a Drunk Guy on the Lawn?
The owners of the real-life Amityville Horror house had to have the street address changed to avoid the real terror: tourists.
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The True, Twisted Story of Amityville Horror
No one place has made as deep an impression on American pop culture as the notorious Long Island home, site of a terrible murder and the basis of scores of books and movies.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Abrahm Lustgarten, Lois Beckett, Julia O’Malley, Alice Driver, and Sarah Jeong.
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How to Get Away with Spying for the Enemy
How does someone get away with helping a foreign adversary? Writer Sarah Laskow digs into the gonzo story of an American acquitted of spying for the Soviets—even after he confessed to it.