#BuzzPanel Book On The Big Screen Outside The Javits Center. #bea15 #ScoutPress

Wow! loads of ghost children in those streets. 

Albany and Troy Streets, 1915 February 17, Building Department, Special Examination photograph collection, 1914-1918   (Collection # 5410.010)

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You know what looks like fun this week? Ruby Besler’s Naughty Lessons at OBERON:

Ruby Besler, 1940’s sex expert, chanteuse, comedienne, and former Vaudeville star, gives ever so polite but eye popping sex advice to her devoted fans, all the while struggling with the reality of her own lackluster single life.

Tickets and more info here.

Can’t make it in person? Check out the web series!

(Plus, Wolf’s Greasy Tardy Gras Ball and its burlesque performances were rescheduled due to snow, and can be found in Somerville on Sunday.)

image credit: The Ruby Besler Show

great name for a great shop at a great spot.

Holy Grounds - A coffee cart outside st. Monica’s church in Santa Monica, CA.

Happy Easter!

Hey @kelltut, how do you get to Fenway? practice, practice, practice. w/ @americanrep @jeremymjordan #FindingNeverland

Great shot of "The Kid". The definitive biography of Ted Williams is coming from Little, Brown this December from author Ben Bradlee Jr. 

Ted Williams

Spring Training

1971

Photo: Ozzie Sweet/ Sport Magazine

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Ha! I found a newspaper job where I can work outside and never worry about page views...

Line for #Amish doughnuts snakes through the parking lot of the Farm Market. #amazing #latergram

Gettin my #art on @ #AmericanRep w/ #mandypatinkin and #taylormac before heading to #BEA15 #ReadUpAndReady

The line is already to the door for opening of #BEA14. Where is the BookTV bus?

Ted Williams knew how to get on base…just like David Ortiz. 

The Kid’s goal: Get on base

 An exclusive excerpt from Ben Bradlee, Jr.’s “The Kid”: [Ted] Williams’s hitting credo was simple: get a good pitch to hit. Critics said he followed this rule to the extreme by refusing to chase a pitch that was even an inch off the strike zone, thereby hurting his team by having its best hitter often pass up an opportunity to drive a runner home. But Ted made the slippery slope counter-argument: that if he chased a pitch an inch from the plate, it would only encourage pitchers to throw two inches outside the zone, then three inches, and so on. History has vindicated Ted’s approach, as there is now broad acceptance of the value of reaching base, or on-base-percentage, a statistic that was not appreciated and barely even kept in Williams’s day. 

(PHOTO: Ted Williams happily crossing home plate at Fenway Park, 1939. Courtesy of the Trustees of the Boston Public Library - Leslie Jones Collection.)