I have a friend who wrote, and won several Emmy Awards, for “Days of Our Lives” and “As the World Turns.” She has talked often about what a grueling schedule she worked under—but how brilliant the writers and staff were.

In the meantime, Doe is asking the court to stop the university panel from making a decision and $600,000 in damages.

And when she moved to NYC, she had nothing, either. I’m not a huge Madonna fan, but this new book looks phenomenal.

I think so, too. They’ve aged nicely.

Hey, you stole the sign from my front yard!

I loved when Howard Gordon et al. hired her for 24. What a perfect piece of casting.

(I also had no idea that she used to date Sarah Paulson from American Horror Story.)

That being said, the scenes in the festival were some of the series’ most brilliant, partly because of just how damn unlikeable the kids were.

I’m thrilled that the show decided to hire, and honor, Cherry Jones, one of our greatest stage actors and someone who (like Reg E. Cathey, Frances McDormand, or Denis O’Hare) can transform any part into something glorious and unmissable.

I always tell a particular relative, who lives in Berkeley and is a snob (“You know, in California we have unicorns!”) that California is the Alabama of the west coast. This makes her cross for some reason.

A kid on my street just stanced (is that a word?) his late-1990s Miata, effectively ruining what was a fantastic little car.

“No More Lies” is the blazingest track from Michel’le’s 1989 debut album, there is no doubt about that. It still sounds as fresh and complex now as it did back then—and that hook is completely insane.

Your recommendation is the second I’ve seen on this thread. I will check Biokleen out. Thanks! (My housecleaner—yes, I know, but it’s one of my only splurges—started using Fabuloso on my kitchen floors, and I had trouble breathing for an entire day.)

It’s up there for me with The Sundays’ “Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic” on the list of albums from that era that should have sold ten million copies each.

Amen to that!

That’s clever. I hadn’t considered it as a cloud-based alternative.

I was waiting for the “What kind of audiophile uses Beats?” comment, but this is good, too.

Yeah, but I’m listening to Trash Can Sinatras’ 1993 album I’ve Seen Everything right now, and I doubt I’ll hear “Bloodrush” on my local ClearChannel station!

I don’t like the Spotify interface from a readability standpoint, and Apple Music was weird and uncomfortable to me. Google Music can be quirky (the service lets you upload your own songs to your account, which doesn’t always work correctly), but it works gorgeously across devices. I’ve got over 2,500 CDs and 1,000…

I’ve paid my $10/month to Google Music for the last few years because the service is great, the streaming quality is better than most, and I get ad-free YouTube included. I gave Tidal a shot, but it streamed so choppily in the car that I gave up.