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Extra, Extra: Cooped-Up Pet Owners Are Teaching Their Dogs To Talk
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Published Aug 16, 2020
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- The possibility of a severe flu season has health experts raising the specter of a "twindemic."
- The National Weather Service has an explanation for why some vegetation is withering in a very specific way on Long Island.
- An aviation expert took photos of the inside of dead pedophile Jeffrey Epstein's creepy private jet, which was widely known as "the Lolita Express."
- This profile of Secret Machines reminds us of a simpler time when everyone had a blog and live music was everywhere.
- A Manhattan man is obsessed with personally fixing illegally obscured license plates.
- Holland Cotter writes eloquently for the NY Times about the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers at the University of Virginia: "Closure is not its goal. Active, additive remembrance is. Is this what distinguishes a memorial from a monument? A monument says: I am truth. I am history. Full stop. A memorial says, or can say: I turn grief for the past into change for the present, and I always will.
- Elizabeth Debicki will play Princess Diana in the final two seasons of The Crown on Netflix.
- How close are you to teaching your pet to talk during the pandemic?
- A tractor trailer driver nearly died after powerful winds from Tropical Storm Isaias knocked over his rig on the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge.
- And finally, please pump up the volume for Deer's cover of the Phil Collins hit "In the Air Tonight":
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Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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