Ross Levanto makes his annual Christmas-Eve trek to Mike's Pastry and shares a hard-won tip: ... You need to feel the crowd and the lines, and look for a "soft spot" where the attendant-to-customer ratio is the highest. ......

our anonymous submitter spotted this signage at a homemade water park somewhere near cherry point, south carolina. related: and pull up your pants...

Here is the latest from Laura: Well, I am a bit behind in my fortnightly updates (and unemployed too! I should have no excuses!) Hello to everyone and thanks again for the emails letting me know what you’ve been up to. In my last email, Simon and I were heading off to look at a couple of prospecti...

Insult the Founding Fathers as a bunch of genocidal, slave-holding white supremacist patriarchs, and you're liable to irritate somebody's stupid little fetish. You're disdaining 'progress' or 'Enlightenment' or 'modernity' or something of that kind. Or, if your foil is the sort of boorish salon cont...

Saw two houses yesterday in Canterbury, wildly different, and they highlight the fact that we want somewhere exactly in between, which is something that does not exist, at least within our budget... [flickr]http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2366/2218581267_ab973d65c7_m.jpg[/flickr] First house was in V...

The Sefer Yeven Metzulah was written by Rabbi Natan Nata Hanover, a survivor of the Chmielnicki-led massacres of Jews in Poland and Ukraine in 1648-1649 [1]which came to be known as גזירות ת"ח ות"ט. This edition (pictured) was published in Tel Aviv in 1966 by the Socialist Zionist Hakibbu...