The Comeback: 2004 Boston Red Sox premieres October 23.
The documentary series looks back at one of the greatest comebacks in sports history — when the Boston Red Sox broke the infamous "Curse of the Bambino" and defeated their archrivals, the New York Yankees — going on to win their first World Series title in 86 years.
For @vulture, I wrote about School of Rock for its 20th anniversary, and will *also* be live-tweeting the movie from the Vulture account on Wednesday at 7 for Movie Club. Tune in or you’re tacky and I hate you
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For @curbed, I looked into some of the aesthetic objections to wind turbines in rural New York communities, and also got to write about a weird feature of my hometown: oil rigs disguised as island resorts.
https://t.co/03xCPqF3QU
For @intelligencer, I did a deep dive on prior authorization, a ubiquitous cost-saving tool used by private health-care plans that denies/delays care to patients and overwhelms doctors with paperwork
https://t.co/4bmbYeezd7
Separately, for anyone who feels proud and grateful to have benefitted from affirmative action in their life (like myself) & are now heartbroken...less eloquently put than she does here: we are all better for it.
EXCLUSIVE: HBO and Words + Pictures have launched production on a documentary about Barry Bonds, one of baseball’s greatest players – and one of the most polarizing figures in all professional sport
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Companies from Apple to John Deere make it virtually impossible to fix their products without being forced to use their expensive services. Thanks to the "right to repair" movement, that could soon change, @chrisstanton27 reports https://t.co/nIteOc1Tg3
We want our pension intact. We want our health care funded. We want raises that reflect our contribution to the company's success. I pledge to walk out with more than 1,000 @NYTimesGuild members for a fair and complete contract.
Deep down I just want approval and this week “Approval Matrix” on @NYMag hooked me up. It’s such an honor to not be in the same quadrant as Vladimir Putin.