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By Barbara Khristi This essay originally appeared in The Strad, and has been lightly edited from the original. “Every performance is a monument to a person whose voice cannot be heard anymore.” — Amnon Weinstein The internationally renowned exhibition, Violins of Hope, came to Pittsburgh,
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The worst kind of bus girlie By Bethany Kaylor This piece first appeared on Bethany’s blog, “Books and beans, beans and books,” and has been lightly edited from the original. A few months back, I spent a Saturday traipsing around San Francisco with a new friend. We took a ferry ride from Oakland to
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By Elias Leventhal I was first exposed to math in sixth grade. I wasn’t raised in a cave, or by wolves; my childhood was perfectly normal. But sixth grade was when I discovered Mathcounts and saw the true beauty of the subject for the first time. Mathcounts is the nation’s largest middle-school
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The backstory "I think I had a stroke." It was at a Disney family vacation when my mom said her left leg was not working correctly. She was 87. These six words changed our world. After a year and a half of medical specialist visits, back surgery, physical therapy and other neurological tests, we
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By Maureen Elyse Gilbert This essay was originally published on Marueen’s blog, “Notes from a Midlife Crisis,” and has been lightly edited from the original. “A ship in a harbour is safe but that's not what ships are built for." John Shedd Flaco the owl is dead. For those of you who don’t
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Scarborough, Maine, is a fast-growing coastal Southern Maine town. With growth comes change and with change comes both prosperity and heightened divisiveness among residents. Some of the sharpest divisions have emerged over school policy. The recalling of several school board members over disputes
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By Terrell Halaska Dunn Baseball is Life By Terrell Halaska Dunn Last year, Opening Day landed almost exactly one month after the death of my father-in-law, Jerry. People always talk about occasions like the first birthday, or Christmas, after a loved one dies as particularly hard. For my husband
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By Nina I want to highlight one significant inaccuracy in Tangle’s take on the social media hearings in Congress from February, and a very common fundamental misunderstanding with ad targeting. In that edition, Isaac wrote the following: “There are two major changes I think Congress can and should
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By Jerry Bryan A north star is, for example, forest restoration. Atomic restoration is a constellation of north stars. — Matt King, low-carbon energy expert Born and raised in the Columbia River Gorge on the border of Washington and Oregon downwind of what is now the Hanford Manhattan Project
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By Anonymous MD I am a physician, a husband, and a father. I am a religious man; my faith is at the very center of my life. I am politically conservative and subscribe to Objectivist philosophy, which focuses on pursuing solutions that are logical and evidence-based. I believe in small government,
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This post is lightly edited and adapt from Sam Gittleman's Substack. A minute into the opener’s set, a security guard approached me in the general admission section’s only row of seats and softly asked if I had reserved ADA accommodations. I didn’t know you could, nor realized that’s what this
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Written by Tangle readers Elli Purtell and Sarah Gripshover. We’re writing in response to a piece that ran in our local newspaper in Oak Park, Illinois, by a concerned woman who saw a young girl playing alone in a park and urged caution and parental supervision. We have no doubt the author had the