Author Archive
- Michelle Legro
- Charles Mingus Toilet-Trains Your Cat In 1952, jazz musician Charles Mingus developed a successful technique to toilet train his cat.
- The Egg Nog Riot In 1826, an out-of-control dorm party at West Point determined the future course of our nation’s military—all because its participants were hopped up on the nog.
- Top Chef, Old Master Leonardo da Vinci may have been a genius polymath, but at the heart of his work was a love of food and kitchen experiments.
- Every City Has a Sex and an Age Is Paris a young man in love or London an charming orphan? We asked the internet the sex and age of their hometown or adopted city.
- Two of Every Animal (and More) Theodore Roosevelt's huge bounty of game from his 1909 African safari filled the vaults of the Smithsonian museum.
- The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee Balzac's coffee addiction was "a great power in my life. I have observed its effects on an epic scale."
- Ethan Frome, or Whatever Edith Wharton's novella gets the mumblecore treatment.
- Yale on the Lido Deck Is the Yale recruitment video the kind of thing that would have prompted the French Revolution?
- Turn the Other Cheek The first rule of evangelical fight club? Tell everyone about evangelical fight club.
