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A Week In Appleton, WI, On A Joint $162,830 Salary

Yeah, I know: “nerd alert!” Today it's a leftover burger ... I watch one of my all-time favorite movies, How to Make an American Quilt. I can't even tell you how many times I've seen it ... read more

The sweep of history

Flying into Champaign, Illinois on a sunny April day, the farmland that stretches out in every direction looks like a vast patchwork quilt executed in soft spring ... and a quintessentially American ... read more

Twin Cities crafters reflect climate change with 'temperature' blankets and scarves

Every evening, she knits two rows onto her latest handiwork, selecting Thistle-colored yarn if it’s 14 degrees or below, Almanac if it’s between 15 and 29, or Faded Quilt for 30 to 44 ... As a ... read more

Be Here Now: Weekend events for Lane County and beyond, March 16-17

48th annual Daffodil Drive Festival — This all-volunteer-run event features local crafters, lunch, live music, wagon rides, classic cars, quilts and of course ... Disorient Asian American Film Fest — ... read more

Families in literature: the March sisters in Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

It was impossible to dislike Jo, who is author Louisa May Alcott’s self-insertion as a talented literary nerd stomping through a narrow domestic ... of scarlet fever offstage), but Alcott pulled a ... read more

Your Library: Librari-Con is Saturday at Headquarters Library

The event runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. We have some returning favorites, such as Behind Vader’s Mask with the Carolina Garrison, Nerd Slam with El ... Camp presented by the American Fencing Academy, ... read more

Heidi Schreck Takes the Constitution to Broadway

When Heidi Schreck was fourteen, her mother cajoled her into entering the American Legion Oratorical Contest ... Schreck was, as she put it recently, an outgoing nerd—into ballet, self-tanning, Duran ... read more

Hearing Voices: Librarian-Produced Podcasts

Think of the Zapruder film, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, the AIDS Quilt, the Rosetta Stone, the 18-and-a-half-minute gap [in ­Nixon’s tapes], and so on.” Rita Meade, a public librarian in Brooklyn, ... read more

Butterfinger Changed Its Recipe — Here's How It Tastes

an American candy company owned by (as of December 2017) Luxembourg-based Ferrero, which then added Nestle’s U.S. product line (including Nerds and Baby Ruth) to its portfolio earlier this year. Yes, ... read more

DON'T HOLD YOUR BREATH ON `WAITING TO EXHALE'

After all, I saw "How to Make an American Quilt"! But now, here comes "Waiting to Exhale ... For example, Robin brings home one of her employees, an overweight nerd who has sex with her in a clownish, ... read more

From the Projects to Silicon Valley: How Tristan Walker Succeeded – and How He's Giving Back

“I was a nerd,” he says with a laugh ... “I have an amazing wife, a beautiful son, a great home and an amazing job,” he says. “Is that the American dream? My answer to that is an emphatic yes!” ... read more