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People always ask if you remember what you were doing when the important stuff happened. My folks and their friends used to talk about where...

Tunes & Blooms for Ukraine Surf rock band the High Breaks and Latin band Mal Maïz play to raise funds for BlueCheck Ukraine. Food, drink and fresh-cut sunflowers available for purchase.

After collective decades in beer, the team behind Foam Brewers are running their own show—and drinkers are seeking them out. “We never promoted anything; we just delivered,” says brewmaster Todd Haire. “If that travels by word of mouth, then that’s cool.”

(Self-released, digital) There are terms for the sensations experienced by those who have traveled to space. Coined by author Frank White in 1987, the Overview...

(Self-released, digital) Every couple of years or so, the National Assessment of Educational Progress — aka "Americas Report Card" — surveys Americas students. And every time that report card is sent home, students are graded terribly when it comes to geography, both in the U.S. and abroad. Maybe this explains the large number of people who ask me whether Vermont is in Canada. (Cmon, guys, just look at Google Maps if you have to. Youre making us all look bad.) But perhaps the mystery...

PPP Update As the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) opens the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) application portal to lenders, ACCD is encouraging businesses to explore applying for the more than $284 billion has been allocated to this program nationally. Friday, the portal was opened to lenders with $1 billion or less in assets for First and Second Draw applications. The portal will fully open on Tuesday, January 19th to all participating PPP lenders to submit First and Second Draw loan...

San Mateos Matt Hagen (left) and Matt Burr Greetings, music lovers. Apologies for not having a quippy headline to start things off. You see, Ive written and rewritten this section so many times, including its head, because nothing feels right. I desperately want to be something like a cheerleader at the big homecoming game who just did an espresso enema. I want to shout, "Ho ho, hey hey, everythings going to be OK!" But its feeling really hard to mus...