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Moments after this joyful photograph was taken, we learned the news that the nation’s most beloved heiress had turned herself over to authorities. I began the day reading The New York Times, then crafted a new script for the second “Mister Rogers & Me” trailer. Deep and simple. I am currently wrapping up MTV News’…

I can’t tell you what joy it brings me to see my colleagues’ mugs online. And not just because they’re good looking. I’ve been ballyhooing the blog as a means of granting audiences access to newsrooms to no avail for years. Still, even as corporate news correspondants — from Brian Williams to Katie Couric to…

The teams were always the same: Sean and Chris versus Dusty and me. I don’t remember meeting the Wells brothers, they just were. My family moved from Indianapolis, Indiana, to Oak Park, Illionois, in the summer before first grade. Our mint green stucco house on Forest Avenue was just one block from architect Frank Lloyd…

You remember my pal Casey Shea, right? Casey and his lovely wife Langhorne are on the road with Casey’s new band, Sundown: think Crosby, Still & Nash, but cuter, and way hipper (and none of that weirdness with Melissa Etheridge). Well, they’re blogging about their adventures for MTV News. You can check it out at…

Like the film he was encouraging me to see, Ron’s email was short and sweet. “Get thee to the cinema,” it read. “Like, tomorrow.” Sunday, then, found Abbi and I reclining in the perfect optical and aural center of AMC Theatre #15 for the 7:05 screening of “Once.” Like Ron’s subject header said, “Oh man!”…

I’m as tired of writing about sleepless nights as you are of reading about them. So I won’t even bother with the twitch I’ve developed in my left eye. Instead, I’ll briefly regale you with an excerpt from an article I read in the New Yorker this morning. In “At Lincoln’s Deathbed,” author Adam Gopnik…