Tamsen and Dan Read the Paper

Happy Birthday Hazel! Happy Birthday Vivian!  Our adventures in Georgia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York as summer heats up.  Fallen Angels, Basura, Moana Jr! Credits: Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

Mysterious Blue Creatures on the Beach in California.  Going to the Circus Vazquez. Tuner.  Mrs. Christie.  Playoffs.  (Basketball & Hockey).  More AI.  It's everywhere.  BYOFood to the Ballpark.  Beautiful Beach Ride. Credits: Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz

Kids say the darndest things... Translating Shakespeare.  It Helps.  How to make a Decision.  Pigeons and People.  They go way back. Hawk Romance.  Neanderthal Root Canal.  Joshua Henry stops the show.  Every Night.  Just in Time makes $$.  New Yorkers won't wear the free tee shirt.  Five Minutes All to Myself. (Five Minutes Peace, by Jill Murphy) Credits: Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

Find a Way or Make One in the parrot world.  Quick Trip to NYC.  Death Becomes Her.  Gotta Dance.  Hello Mike Stoller. Wandering Around the Met. The Christophers with Michaela Coel and Ian McKellen.  The  Frank Obit.  Sumo Wrestlers and Bodybuilders as Caretakers (in Japan).  Mahjong.  Affordable Cars. Credits: Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

Dan reminisces about the glories of raking Hard Tru. Where's the chocolate?  The price of tickets.  Green Wood Cemetery welcomes Visitors. How to afford a house in California (you'll need an ADU).  Prehistoric Dice.  Icelandic Hot Dogs.  Eleanor Abbott and Candy Land.  Gainsborough at the Frick. Credits: Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

Tamsen's new favorite basketball player/story.  Also Hatshepsut: Tamsen's favorite female pharaoh.  Plus Max Scherzer: Tamsen's new favorite MLB rehab story.  And Bojangle's: Tamsen's favorite fast food biscuit sandwich.  Not to mention Raphael...well, you get the picture... Credits: Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

The many contributions of Bell Labs.  Coders wrangle their AI Agents.  Artists, their estates, and their estranged families.  Hyrox.  Angelika Saleh.  Alan Trustman. An Owl wakes up in a Gift Shop... Credits: Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

Beautiful window to see at the Met!  Hanging out at the local tavern.  Puttin' on the Shvitz!  Updating the American Girl Doll. Bloomies is Back.  How about Jordan Stolz on a bike? Say good bye to Mr. Clean. Credits: Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

Watching the Winter Olympics.  The end of Mass Market Paperbacks.  House Burping.  Rough Times for Female Tortoises in Macedonia.  Jo Ann Bass and Joe's Stone Crab.  Freedom House Ambulance Service. Football by Chuck Klosterman. Credits: Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

Hunkered down but getting out anyway.  High Spirits in NYC.  The Testament of Ann Lee at the movie theater.  One Battle After Another on the small screen.  More Inspiration from Kpop Demon Hunters.  Mourning the demise of the Department Store.  Metrocard Artists losing their supply.  Ellen Hughes: more than your average hockey mom.  New Restaurant models - loving The Dutchess (Ojai!). Amor Towles - stepping into the Jazz Age via Cole Porter and Ella (Fitzgerald). Credits: Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

We're having a REAL WINTER.  Hunkered down watching movies and reading the newspaper.  Lots to think about:  Kpop Demon Hunters bringing Korean culture to the world.  A World in the Making: The Shakers (exhibition) and The Testament of Ann Lee (movie).  A big book about Bennett Cerf by Gayle Feldman.  Wilbur Wood.  John Brody.  How Green Was My Valley. Songs by Sondheim. Credits: Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

Rancho Gordo.  Yum.  Fun in NYC.  The Plague. Discovering Ted Chapin's Everything Was Possible. Making Oboes.  The New Princeton University Art Museum.  Give Well.   Credits: Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

Summing up the Holidays. Merchants of Joy, Xmas tree sellers documentary.  Marty Supreme. World's Largest Apron Museum.  Phyllis Lee Levin. Redwing Boots.  Remembering Annette, the last of the Dionne Quintuplets. Credits: Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

Another shocking French Heist.  Remembering Mel Leipzig. Colds at night.  Mary Ann Patten: first female captain of a merchant clipper ship.  Pizza business ups and downs.  Stewart Brand and The Maintenance of Everything.  The Family Bond of the NY Giants.  Self Driving Cars. Credits: Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

Looking back over a tasty time.  Musing on Broadway favorites, Tom Stoppard, Mary Poppins.  Pride and Pleasure by Amanda Vaille (Schuyler sisters). Bob Trumpy.  David Lerner (Tekserve).  Terry Martin Hekker (Disregard First Book).  Repair Cafés. Credits: Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

Looking at Lorenz Hart through Ethan Hawke and Richard Linklater.  The Dodgers do it again.  A Stuff Lending Library.  The Louvre Heist.  Paying your legal bills with your museum collection.  Playbill edges toward URL.  Wasp Nest decor.  Shelly Fireman. Credits: Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

More kvetching than kvelling at Saul Zabar's shiva.  Swedish tribute to Philly Skatepark.  Michael McRoberts: football strategist/debt collector.   Coca Leaves.  Blow your kitchen clean.  Rijksmuseum Dollhouse.  Milton Esterow.  Renato Casaro.  Toby Talbot. Credits: Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

And they move... Harvard - attending class is optional.  James Grashow, cardboard sculptor.  Sad farewell to Georgia Brown's.  Saul Zabar. Lake Burping.  Jonathan Clements. Credits: Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

Happy Birthday Pepper.  Keeping the Deer Out.  Block Island Wind Farm.  Bjorn Borg tells his story.  Museum Update:  Fra Angelico/Rembrandt's Dog. Broadway Musicals lose money.  Dome Headed Dinosaur.  Cynthia Ozick.  Marian Burros and the Plum Torte. Credits: Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

Summer winds down:  Labor Day Weekend, US Open, quick trip to Mohonk.  Listening to Austen.  Self Publishing to Seven Figure Contract in 90 Days.  The fun of the Shakespeare Backstory. Spitting in Sports.  Colors and the Brain.  Fishtales.  Where are the Bobs? Credits: Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

Somehow it works.  Highest 2 Lowest.  Marathon Running and Colon Cancer (a surprising connection).  Who's the Best Baseball Player (all time)?  New Life for a Wyeth  mural.  Laptops in the classroom.  David Brooks finds help from the Mets. Credits: Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

Back from Vacation Fun with Sadie.  Ed Sullivan  documentary:  Sunday Night Best. Nonnas.  Glimmerglass Opera Fans versus Baseball Camp Parents.  How to manage a baseball team.  Is Euro-bread better for you?  Ozempic is changing menus... Versailles and talking sculpture.  Bridge to Italy?  Remembering Tom Lehrer. Credits: Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

Enjoying the sea breezes.  Digging in the sand with the grandchildren.  Walking, biking, swimming.  Talking about Cosco Pants, French Holidays, Family Bed, Breweries.  Also Pianist Nicholas McCarthy.  NJ Micro Forests.  Columbia University negotiates, disciplines. Alan Bergman, songwriter. Credits: Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

Bobby Darin and Jonathan Groff - great show on Broadway.  Great meal at Via Carota.  Not dressing up for La Scala.   Richard Moylan's history at Greenwood Cemetery.  Passports pronto.  Feed me Phil (Rosenthal).  Bayeux Tapestry will travel.  Hydrofoil commuting? Credits: Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

Big Birthday trip with Jasi to see his Great Grandmother and Miscellaneous Cousins.  All in all, a Great Adventure.  Yaroslav Breus cooking at the front line.  Stephen Fry and what he reads.  Stephen Sondheim's papers head to the Library of Congress.  The Pope returns to Castel Gandolfo.  Students sue Columbia.  Jack Kleinsinger: lawyer/jazz impresario.  Mortimer Matz and Nathan's Hot Dogs. Credits: Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

It's hot in Pennsylvania! Visiting with the cousins.  Remembering Michael Abuhoff. Good Bye Muppets Show at Disney World.  Boys and Kindergarten.  Strike at the Louvre!  The amazing  Zack Wheeler.  Syracuse wooing students with discounts.  Barbara Holdridge.  Ron Taylor.  John Lie-Nielsen. Credits: Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

Sing to your Baby.  Skip the new Four Seasons series and go back to the 1981 film.  It's more up to date.  Princeton Record Exchange.  Films chefs love.  Back to Blue Books.  A great sports photo.  Veggie Dinos.  No chewing necessary.   Credits: Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

New Jersey is sinking.  Baby-led weaning. Levittown.  The problem with burgers.  WWII  - a hot topic for  Children's Books?  Remembering Marcel Ophuls.  The Best Years of Our Lives. Credits: Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

Tamsen and Dan Reveal All!  (well, not quite all...)  We're celebrating 400 Episodes using the 36 Questions guaranteed to make you fall in love.  Join us for our close-up. Credits: Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff Engineer:  Ellie Suttmeier Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

Some interesting choices.  A Complete Unknown, The Last Dance, Marching Band. Big Box Craft Beer.  Museum Update.  Ball Players and their Swag.  Sears saves the School Day.  Phoebe Gates starts a business.  Tiffany Lamp Tattoo, anyone?  Out in Cali to cheer for  Zeke and Noel. Credits: Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff Engineer:  Ellie Suttmeier Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

Tamsen can't handle it.  The Pope's favorite painting.  NFL Draft chatter.  Moot Court at Princeton. (Daniel as Judge).  British Magicians come around (acknowledging the women).  Dancing in the subway.  Hidden Frescoes at the Villa Farnesina. Remembering Marshall Rausch. Credits: Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff Engineer:  Ellie Suttmeier Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

'Tis the season!  Celebrating Easter and Passover.  Thoughts about AI.  Basketball players in the NHL.  Museum update:  Cairo and Chicago.  Second-tier phones.  Remembering Junior Bridgeman. Credits: Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff Engineer:  Ellie Suttmeier Art:  Zeke Abuhoff    

Errol Morris movie about investing.  Dan liked it.  Also A Real Pain.  Saving the Metro Theater (NYC).  Kelvin Sampson.  Remembering William Finn.  Richard Bernstein.  Linda Williams, professor, and how her porno-film theories intersected with Dan's legal career.  Clive Revill. Credits: Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff Engineer:  Ellie Suttmeier Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

Love Life in NYC.  Dan Neil buys a Tesla.  Will Shortz on the mend.  Howie Rose nostalgia.  AI comes to the Art History rescue. Big applications for Gorilla Glass. Credits: Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff Engineer:  Ellie Suttmeier Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

Thinking about George Foreman.  Dan rejoices at the return of baseball and marvels at the Japanese Obsession.  Tamsen contemplates Beef Tallow and Gougeres.  How about a Sound Room?  March Madness.  Sesame Street, still going strong?  Thomas Moser and the Continuous Arm Chair. Credits: Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff Engineer:  Ellie Suttmeier Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

Renovations!  Before and after: the Hoboken Transit Terminal and the Frick Collection.  Mad Madness - no upsets?  Covid revelations.  Ping Pong and Parkinson's Disease.  Getting ahead with Katharine Gibbs.  The Allure of the Boring Business. Penguin Retirement. Credits: Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff Engineer:  Ellie Suttmeier Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

Remembering Joan Dye Gussow.  Spending Time in Raleigh.  London restaurant controversy.  Living over the Library.  Caravaggio 2025 in Rome.  College for All?  Maybe not.  Roberta Flack.  Buster Poindexter.  Rebel with a Clause.  Vinyl Wizard Chase Kassem. Credits: Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff Engineer:  Ellie Suttmeier Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

Back to Richmond.  Heart Shaped Tubs.  Meat Raffles!  Ken Rosenthal and the History of Panera.  Hal Sperlich / Mustang / Mini-Van.  The new Honda Civic. City Bank.  Earl Weaver and Analytics before there were Analytics. Credits: Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff Special Guest:  Cindy Gompert Engineer:  Ellie Suttmeier Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

Final Knee Report.  Thoughts on Exercise.  Tulips vs Roses.  Animated Shorts.  The Return (movie, as in, the Odyssey). Homegrown Ice Hockey on Long Island.  Basketball á la Arsenault (Jr and Sr). Monica Getz.  Ken Wydro.  Paddington 2! Credits: Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff Engineer:  Ellie Suttmeier Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

 ( Super Bowl)  It Happens.  TV Ratings.  Gambling Adverts.  Super Dome history.  Happy Valentine's Day.  White House Decor Stories.  The Learning Pit.  Educational  Micromanagement in Texas.  Shirley Temple critic Leo Kelly.  Goodbye Book Blurbs. Credits: Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff Engineer:  Ellie Suttmeier Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

Marching Bands!  Athletic Prowess - it's not all about the looks.  Low Cal Wine?  Britt Allcroft.  Fay Vincent.  Dick Button.  Wolfgang Zwiener.  Book recs from Scott Turow.  How to Sell a Ferrari. Dan reveals his Super Bowl pick. Credits: Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff Engineer:  Ellie Suttmeier Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

Fun story to warm your heart on a chilly winter day.  Finishing A French Village. Dan explains Parlays.  LA story - fireproof but not trauma proof.  Bringing back the Jack Rose. On the spectrum with Bill Gates. Credits: Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff Engineer:  Ellie Suttmeier Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

It's cold.  Deluxe Editions - People love Books.  Fore-edge painting.  Radio Taiso.  Gerd Heidemann and the Fake Hitler Diaries.  Van Gogh All-nighter in London.  Rickey Henderson.  Claire van Kampen. Credits: Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff Engineer:  Ellie Suttmeier Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

Broadway: Our Town.  Tamsen's New Knee.  Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas - the back story.  Ira Gershwin - being George's brother.  Armia Khalil and Daniel Harding: Side Jobs.   Credits: Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff Engineer:  Ellie Suttmeier Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

Jasi's Holiday Sing-Along.  Filomen M. D'Agostino Greenberg Music School performance at the Met (Sing-Along included).  Siena (at the Met).  Back Scratching. (It's a Thing).  Stephen King bows out of the Radio Business.  The Eisenhower Highway.  Heidi.  Really? Yes. Bernie Marcus.  Richard Cash. Credits: Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff Engineer:  Ellie Suttmeier Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

Much to discuss:  Notre Dame, Lindsey Vonn, Broadway Volume, Martha Stewart, Performance Enhanced Olympics, Plants Crying, and Laying an Egg at 74! Credits: Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff Engineer:  Ellie Suttmeier Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

Movies (Conclave), Dinner Parties, Broadway (Ragtime).  Celebrating David C. Gompert.  The Rest is History (podcast). Racing Pigeons.  Park Improvements.  The joys of Pescado a la Talla.   Credits: Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff Engineer:  Ellie Suttmeier Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

Al Jolson.  A new biography.  Milk Chamberlan (Robbie Avila).  The Remarkable Life of  Ibelin  (the story of Mats Steen).  Why Students don't Read.  Riding the Rails - looks like fun.   Credits: Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff Engineer:  Ellie Suttmeier Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

Mets plow on.  Restaurant chatter. Matty Matheson loves Costco knives.  Chicago challenges NY art police.  Is the Minivan coming back?  Luis Tiant. Ina Garten, her memoir.  Dorothy Parker.  Alphabears, an ABC book by Kathleen and Michael Hague. Credits: Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff Engineer:  Ellie Suttmeier Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

Some Tips.  Baseball Helmet Ads.  Playoffs.  Apple hearing aids.  Cemetery Tourism.  Bye-bye Touchscreen?  Swimming Pool Mastermind, Vance Gillette.  Knight Owl by Christopher Denise. Credits: Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff Engineer:  Ellie Suttmeier Art:  Zeke Abuhoff