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Boys Will Be Boys…Or No?

Last night, I was taking Comang on his evening walk when I ran into a group of boys playing baseball. There is almost always a group of middle-school-aged boys playing on this block when the weather is nice (I think one or two of them live on that street) — they are usually skateboarding, biking, or just hanging around. However, this was the first time I've seen them playing baseball...

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Street Pianos Headed to NYC!

One of the (many) things I love about NYC is the abundance of street and subway performers. May it be a classically-trained prodigy giving an impromptu concert, a struggling musician performing for dollars (often with the wish that a record executive will "discover" them), or an out-of-luck bum drumming some beats on some upside-down plastic containers, you can bet that these performers add as much art and culture to the city as do those who play sold-out shows at Carnegie Hall. Heck, even street salesmen are world-famous performers here! This is precisely the reason I was so excited to read that NYC will soon follow in London and Sydney's footsteps to install street pianos in public places for anyone to sit down...

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