Day trips

An establishment claims that it "bakes the best bagels in the Lawrenceville, NJ area." I found this on one of my attempts at findi...

Eating, reading

-Consider this Social Qs  dilemma : When picking up takeout food at a restaurant, and being presented with the credit card bill, I leave the...

Burying the lede

There's a new Rufus Wainwright music video , for "Out of the Game." In it, three Rufuses make out at a library, with one anoth...

Marketable skills

Recently, at a beyond-academia event aimed at preemptively-despairing grad students who very much still want to be profs, I learned that one...

On this week's titillating Dear Prudence

Yet another reason why college room-sharing is a terrible idea . Prudie's advice - "Just think of this as one of those 'out o...

"A dishpan and piece of scotchbrite"

Regular readers know that two of my favorite things are dishwashers and online-newspaper comments. So what better than a combination of the ...

Don't mess with perfection

There is a perfect coffee shop, and I know this will come as a great surprise, but it's not in Princeton. Nothing against the coffee sho...