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Extra Extra: Are You Going To Wear A Mask This Summer?
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Published Apr 29, 2021
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- The Times makes a compelling case for a one week paid national holiday.
- Food & Wine has declared that New Jersey has the best pizza in America, followed by Connecticut and THEN New York.
- Millennials are apparently really getting into chickens.
- To mask or not to mask, that is the question (on the minds of millions of Americans).
- There's no saying this nicely: this duck is too tall.
- Pitchfork has a piece about a new documentary which highlights female pioneers in early electronic music.
- The NYPD is probing two Asian hate crime attacks this week.
- Zoë Roth, a college senior better known as the subject of the "Disaster Girl" meme, has sold the original copy of her meme as an NFT for almost $500K.
- Regina Hall talked to Vulture about the wonderful film Support The Girls.
- Billie Eilish has a new single and it sounds...just like Feist.
- And finally, these three do not seem like a very effective security system:
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