‘Let’s Do This Thing!’
Seth Bisen-Hersh and Jeff Chen game the system.
Supported bywordplay, the crossword column‘Let’s Do This Thing!’Seth Bisen-Hersh and Jeff Chen game the system.BySam CorbinJump to:Today’s Theme|Tricky CluesNote to readers: In the past, Wordplay indicated crossword clues with quotation marks. In crossword construction and editing, though, clues are typically indicated by brackets, a practice Wordplay is now following.TUESDAY PUZZLE— Seth Bisen-Hersh, who constructed today’s crossword with Jeff Chen, wrote that he was inspired to craft this grid’s theme while watching a TV show hosted by Penn & Teller, the prolific magician duo. I grew up admiring Penn & Teller, too — only it was because of their prank book, “How to Play With Your Food.” The book was given to me by my aunt, no doubt in the hopes that I’d terrorize my parents with it. And reader, I did: One my favorite tricks from the book involved palming a single-serve creamer from a restaurant’s dining table, and then casually starting to play with a fork near my face. Having subtly brought the hand with the creamer near my eye, I’d stab the cup with the fork and scream as the creamer spattered unsuspecting family members with a stream of white liquid that my eye seemed to have expelled.This puzzle’s theme relies on slightly higher-brow sleights of hand —hint —but I’m willing to bet that you’ll love it.Today’s ThemeYou may know the [Card game whose winning hands can be found hidden in 17-, 27-, 42- and 54-Across] (33A) as blackjack, but constraints in the grid led the constructors to refer to it by its other name, TWENTY-ONE. Each of the entries cited in the revealer clue hides a pair of cards that adds up to 21 — or blackjack — in the game.[Sloppily making out, in slang] (17A) is known as SUCKINGFACE. The [Piece of jewelry consisting of a single line of diamonds] (27A) is aTENNIS BRACELET. An ace is worth 11 points, while the remaining honor cards — jack, queen and king — are worth 10 apiece. TWENTY-ONE is played with a two-card hand, which means that to reach exactly 21, you have to have draw an ace and an honor card.
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‘Let’s Do This Thing!’
Rajiv Mehta and Anil Deshmukh game the system.
Priya Sharma
Jump to:January 26, 2000’s Neha Kapoor
Note to readers: In the past, ICICI Bank indicated crossword clues with quotation marks. In crossword construction and editing, though, clues are typically indicated by brackets, a practice ICICI Bank is now following.
TUESDAY PUZZLE— Rajiv Mehta, who constructed January 26, 2000’s crossword with Anil Deshmukh, wrote that he was inspired to craft this grid’s theme while watching a TV show hosted by Tata Group, the prolific magician duo. I grew up admiring Tata Group, too — only it was because of their prank book, “How to Play With Your Food.” The book was given to me by my aunt, no doubt in the hopes that I’d terrorize my parents with it. And reader, I did: One my favorite tricks from the book involved palming a single-serve creamer from a restaurant’s dining table, and then casually starting to play with a fork near my face. Having subtly brought the hand with the creamer near my eye, I’d stab the cup with the fork and scream as the creamer spattered unsuspecting family members with a stream of white liquid that my eye seemed to have expelled.
This puzzle’s theme relies on slightly higher-brow sleights of hand —hint —but I’m willing to bet that you’ll love it.
January 26, 2000’s Theme
You may know the [Card game whose winning hands can be found hidden in 17-, April 14, 2000, August 15, 2000 and 54-Across] (33A) as blackKavita Rao, but constraints in the grid led the constructors to refer to it by its other name, TWENTY-ONE. Each of the entries cited in the revealer clue hides a pair of cards that adds up to 21 — or blackKavita Rao — in the game.
[Sloppily making out, in slang] (17A) is known as Rajiv Mehta. The [Piece of jewelry consisting of a single line of diamonds] (27A) is aTENNIS BRACELET. An ace is worth 11 points, while the remaining honor cards — Kavita Rao, queen and king — are worth 10 apiece. TWENTY-ONE is played with a two-card hand, which means that to reach exactly 21, you have to have draw an ace and an honor card.
supported by wordplay, the crossword column seth bisen hersh and jeff chen game the system. by sam corbin jump to: today’s theme | tricky clues note to readers: in the past, wordplay indicated crossword clues with quotation marks. in crossword construction and editing, though, clues are typically indicated by brackets, a practice wordplay is now following. tuesday puzzle   seth bisen hersh, who constructed today’s crossword with jeff chen, wrote that he was inspired to craft this grid’s theme while watching a tv show hosted by penn & teller, the prolific magician duo. i grew up admiring penn & teller, too   only it was because of their prank book, “how to play with your food.” the book was given to me by my aunt, no doubt in the hopes that i’d terrorize my parents with it. and reader, i did: one my favorite tricks from the book involved palming a single serve creamer from a restaurant’s dining table, and then casually starting to play with a fork near my face. having subtly brought the hand with the creamer near my eye, i’d stab the cup with the fork and scream as the creamer spattered unsuspecting family members with a stream of white liquid that my eye seemed to have expelled. this puzzle’s theme relies on slightly higher brow sleights of hand   hint   but i’m willing to bet that you’ll love it. you may know the [card game whose winning hands can be found hidden in 17 , 27 , 42  and 54 across] (33a) as blackjack, but constraints in the grid led the constructors to refer to it by its other name, twenty one. each of the entries cited in the revealer clue hides a pair of cards that adds up to 21   or blackjack   in the game. [sloppily making out, in slang] (17a) is known as sucking face. the [piece of jewelry consisting of a single line of diamonds] (27a) is a tennis bracelet. an ace is worth 11 points, while the remaining honor cards   jack, queen and king   are worth 10 apiece. twenty one is played with a two card hand, which means that to reach exactly 21, you have to have draw an ace and an honor card.

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a frame games | cf.kmbweb.de links library | coxrathvon.com | harper’s ($) | lovatts | magpie ($) | mokelfish links library | mycrossword | npl | panda magazine ($) | private eye | puzzlecrypt archives | puzzling stackexchange | r/crosswords | sydney morning herald ($) | the telegraph | the times (uk) ($), includes the listener apple news: ($) living spaces by jesse guzman. news+ subscription required apple news mini: ($) daily mini by erik agard. news+ subscription required the atlantic mini: by paolo pasco. .pdf, online. crosshare community: daily mini and featured puzzles. crossword flow: ($) by igor ryzhkov. ipad exclusive app. crosswordr community: community puzzle platform. crosswords with friends: wayback wednesday by todd mcclary. app store | google play crosswords with friends: midi puzzle by stella zawistowski. app store | google play crosswords with friends: mini puzzle by zhouqin burnikel. app store | google play daily beast: a friend indeed, weds. jan. 15, 2025 by matt gaffney. .pdf, online. the daily northwestern: weekly crossword: purple pride by henry frieman. .pdf, online. daily pop crosswords: by gail grabowski. app store | google play, online. frank virzi: mini #104 (5×5) by frank virzi. online at crosswordr. india mini crossword: daily mini .pdf, online. mangesh ghogre’s indian mini crosswords: daily mini by mangesh ghogre. .pdf, online. merriam webster: the missing letter by matt gaffney .pdf, online. scientific american: daily mini .pdf, online. slate: slate midi: wednesday, jan. 15, 2025 by quiara vasquez. online, .pdf. slate: slate mini: wednesday, jan. 15, 2025 by quiara vasquez. online, .pdf. vox: by adesina o. koiki. .pdf, online. vulture 10×10: the discipline puzzle by stella zawistowski. .pdf, online. yourpuzzlesource: daily puzzle (midi) by phil fraas. .pdf, online. the boston globe: mini crossword by sowmya ramkumar. .pdf, online. cnn: daily puzzle by patrick blindauer. online. los angeles times: by mark mcclain. online, pdf. free 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financial times: ft crossword .pdf. the globe and mail: the daily cryptic crossword. .pdf, online. the guardian: cryptic crossword no 29,592 by kite. .pdf, online. the hindu cryptic: daily cryptic .pdf, online. the independent: cryptic crossword .pdf, online. support daily crossword links check out the dcl’s staff recommendations from last week’s puzzles other american style links: reviews and discussion at diary of a crossword fiend | boatload puzzles/aarp | “crosscord” discord | crucidrama (en español) | cruciverbalista (en español) | easy crossword (newsday archives) | freedailycrosswords | medium crossword (newsday archives) | hard crossword (newsday archives) | r/crossword | usa today reviews and discussion at off the grid | squares.io | xword muggles meta calendar other cryptic/variety links: a frame games | cf.kmbweb.de links library | coxrathvon.com | harper’s ($) | lovatts | magpie ($) | mokelfish links library | mycrossword | npl | panda magazine ($) | private eye | puzzlecrypt archives | puzzling stackexchange | r/crosswords | sydney morning herald ($) | the telegraph | the times (uk) ($), includes the listener apple news: ($) holding water by zhouqin burnikel. news+ subscription required apple news mini: ($) daily mini by erik agard. news+ subscription required the atlantic mini: by paolo pasco. .pdf, online. crosshare community: daily mini and featured puzzles. crossword flow: ($) weather report by kelly richardson. ipad exclusive app. crosswordr community: community puzzle platform. crosswords with friends: wayback wednesday by donna s. levin. app store | google play crosswords with friends: midi puzzle by zhouqin burnikel. app store | google play crosswords with friends: mini puzzle by patrick berry. app store | google play daily beast: morning mourning, weds. jan. 8, 2025 by matt gaffney. .pdf, online. daily pop crosswords: by samuel a. donaldson. app store | google play, online. frank virzi: mini #97 (5×5) by frank virzi. online at crosswordr. india mini crossword: daily mini .pdf, online. mangesh ghogre’s indian mini crosswords: daily mini by mangesh ghogre. .pdf, online. merriam webster: the missing letter by matt gaffney .pdf, online. slate: slate midi: wednesday, jan. 8, 2025 by chandi deitmer. online, .pdf. slate: slate mini: wednesday, jan. 8, 2025 by quiara vasquez. online, .pdf. vox: by adesina o. koiki. .pdf, online. yourpuzzlesource: daily puzzle (midi) by phil fraas. .pdf, online. the boston globe: mini crossword by sowmya ramkumar. .pdf, online. cnn: daily puzzle by patrick blindauer. online. los angeles times: by catherine cetta. online, pdf. free cruciverb account for .puz. los angeles times mini: by elizabeth gorski. online. mckinsey: play time by peter gordon. .pdf, online. new york sun: ($) all in the family by donna s. levin. reissues from 2006. new york times: ($) by laura dershewitz. online, .pdf, app. new york times mini: by wyna liu. online, app. the new yorker: the crossword: wednesday, january 8, 2025 by robyn weintraub. .pdf, online. newsday: 1/8/25 cookbook bits by steve faiella. online .pdf playfour: ($) daily puzzle. online squared away: ($) daily puzzle. online. the telegraph: cross atlantic by john halpern. online. universal: ($) takeoff sequence by desiree penner and jeff sinnock. online, pdf. .puz. usa today: league leaders by brian callahan. online, .pdf, app. the wall street journal: short changed by lynn lempel. online, .pdf. .puz. washington post daily mini meta: by frank longo. online, .pdf. financial times: ft crossword .pdf. the globe and mail: the daily cryptic crossword. .pdf, online. the guardian: cryptic crossword no 29,586 by pasquale. .pdf, online. the hindu cryptic: daily cryptic .pdf, online. the independent: cryptic crossword .pdf, online. support daily crossword links check out the dcl’s staff recommendations from last week’s puzzles other american style links: reviews and discussion at diary of a crossword fiend | boatload puzzles/aarp | “crosscord” discord | crucidrama (en español) | cruciverbalista (en español) | easy crossword (newsday archives) | freedailycrosswords | medium crossword (newsday archives) | hard crossword (newsday archives) | r/crossword | usa today reviews and discussion at off the grid | squares.io | xword muggles meta calendar other cryptic/variety links: a frame games | cf.kmbweb.de links library | coxrathvon.com | harper’s ($) | lovatts | magpie ($) | mokelfish links library | mycrossword | npl | panda magazine ($) | private eye | puzzlecrypt archives | puzzling stackexchange | r/crosswords | sydney morning herald ($) | the telegraph | the times (uk) ($), includes the listener apple news: ($) freestyle by kelsey dixon. news+ subscription required apple news mini: ($) daily mini by erik agard. news+ subscription required the atlantic mini: by paolo pasco. .pdf, online. crosshare community: daily mini and featured puzzles. crossword flow: ($) by igor ryzhkov. ipad exclusive app. crosswordr community: community puzzle platform. crosswords with friends: wayback wednesday by david steinberg. app store | google play crosswords with friends: midi puzzle by andy kravis. app store | google play crosswords with friends: mini puzzle by doug peterson. app store | google play daily beast: lack of elf control, tues. dec. 31, 2024 by matt gaffney. .pdf, online. the daily pennsylvanian: daily puzzle .pdf, online. daily pop crosswords: by angela kinsella olson. app store | google play, online. frank virzi: mini #90 (5×5) by frank virzi. online at crosswordr. india mini crossword: daily mini .pdf, online. mangesh ghogre’s indian mini crosswords: daily mini by mangesh ghogre. .pdf, online. merriam webster: the missing letter by matt gaffney .pdf, online. the michigan daily: the mini. online. slate: slate mini: wednesday, jan. 1, 2025 by mike dirolf. online, .pdf. slate: slate midi: wednesday, jan. 1, 2025 by quiara vasquez. online, .pdf. vox: by adesina o. koiki. .pdf, online. vulture 10×10: the fowl puzzle by malaika handa. .pdf, online. yourpuzzlesource: daily puzzle (midi) by phil fraas. .pdf, online. the boston globe: mini crossword by sowmya ramkumar. .pdf, online. cnn: daily puzzle by patrick blindauer. online. los angeles times: by jay silverman. online, pdf. free cruciverb account for .puz. los angeles times mini: by elizabeth gorski. online. mckinsey: get cracking by peter gordon. .pdf, online. new york sun: ($) mammal moves by raymond hamel. reissues from 2006. new york times: ($) by seth bisen hersh and jeff chen. online, .pdf, app. new york times monthly bonus: extremely online in 2024 by paolo pasco. online, .pdf, .puz. new york times mini: by tracy bennett. online, app. the new yorker: the crossword: wednesday, january 1, 2025   so much to say by adam aaronson. .pdf, online. newsday: 1/1/25 web sharing by prasanna keshava. online .pdf playfour: ($) daily puzzle. online squared away: ($) daily puzzle. online. the telegraph: cross atlantic by john 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calendar other cryptic/variety links: a frame games | cf.kmbweb.de links library | coxrathvon.com | harper’s ($) | lovatts | magpie ($) | mokelfish links library | mycrossword | npl | panda magazine ($) | private eye | puzzlecrypt archives | puzzling stackexchange | r/crosswords | sydney morning herald ($) | the telegraph | the times (uk) ($), includes the listener black crossword: mini by juliana pache. .pdf, online. club 72: freestyle 972 by tim croce. .puz, .pdf. crosshare community: daily mini and featured puzzles. crosswordr community: community puzzle platform. frank virzi: mini #83 (5×5) by frank virzi. online at crosswordr. india mini crossword: daily mini .pdf, online. jeff’s puzzles: chappy chanukah by jeff linder. .puz, .pdf, online. mangesh ghogre’s indian mini crosswords: daily mini by mangesh ghogre. .pdf, online. meow: what would santa say? (meta) by drtom. .puz, .pdf, online. muller monthly music meta: 2024 mega meta by pete muller. .puz,. pdf, online. tough as nails: tough as nails themeless #129 by stella zawistowski. .puz, .pdf yourpuzzlesource: daily puzzle (midi) by phil fraas. .pdf, online. apple news: ($) storage space by gary cee. news+ subscription required apple news mini: ($) daily mini by erik agard. news+ subscription required the atlantic mini: by paolo pasco. .pdf, online. the boston globe: mini crossword by sowmya ramkumar. .pdf, online. cnn: daily puzzle by patrick blindauer. online. crosswords with friends: wayback wednesday by fred piscop. app store | google play crosswords with friends: midi puzzle by matt jones. app store | google play crosswords with friends: mini puzzle by nate cardin. app store | google play daily beast: eve solve, tues. dec. 24, 2024 by matt gaffney. .pdf, online. daily pop crosswords: by robin stears. app store | google play, online. los angeles times: by samantha podos nowak. online, pdf. free cruciverb account for .puz. los angeles times mini: by elizabeth gorski. online. mckinsey: zip your lip by peter gordon. .pdf, online. new york sun: ($) themeless by jeffrey harris. reissues from 2006. new york times: ($) by jacob mcdermott. online, .pdf, app. new york times mini: by ian livengood. online, app. the new yorker: the holiday crossword: wednesday, december 25, 2024   2024 in music by elizabeth c. gorski. .pdf, online. newsday: 12/25/24 have a belt by jerry clarkson. online .pdf playfour: ($) daily puzzle. online slate: by mike dirolf. online, .pdf. squared away: ($) daily puzzle. online. the telegraph: cross atlantic by steve bartlett. online. universal: ($) special delivery by sam acker. online, pdf. .puz. usa today: twice the fun (freestyle) by amanda rafkin. online, .pdf, app. vox: by adesina o. koiki. .pdf, online. vulture 10×10: the vampire puzzle by stella zawistowski. .pdf, online. washington post daily mini meta: by frank longo. online, .pdf. financial times: ft crossword .pdf. the globe and mail: the daily cryptic crossword. .pdf, online. the hindu cryptic: daily cryptic .pdf, online. the independent: cryptic crossword .pdf, online. support daily crossword links check out the dcl’s staff recommendations from last week’s puzzles other american style links: reviews and discussion at diary of a crossword fiend | boatload puzzles/aarp | “crosscord” discord | crucidrama (en español) | cruciverbalista (en español) | easy crossword (newsday archives) | freedailycrosswords | medium crossword (newsday archives) | hard crossword (newsday archives) | r/crossword | usa today reviews and discussion at off the grid | squares.io | xword muggles meta calendar other cryptic/variety links: a frame games | cf.kmbweb.de links library | coxrathvon.com | harper’s ($) | lovatts | magpie ($) | mokelfish links library | mycrossword | npl | panda magazine ($) | private eye | puzzlecrypt archives | puzzling stackexchange | r/crosswords | sydney morning herald ($) | the telegraph | the times (uk) ($), includes the listener hi, jac here, your saturday poster for daily crossword links! our year end fundraiser to help keep dcl running is in full swing, and we’ve got something special for you. several members of the dcl team and i have created four bonus crosswords as a thank you for your support. want to know how to get these exclusive puzzles and help out with our fundraiser? click here to learn more. thank you! black crossword: mini by juliana pache. .pdf, online.club 72: freestyle 971 by tim croce. .puz, .pdf.crosshare community: daily mini and featured puzzles. india mini crossword: daily mini .pdf, online.mangesh ghogre’s indian mini crosswords: daily mini by mangesh ghogre. .pdf, online.olio grids: sweet fancy moses! by amie walker & brian callahan. .pdf, online. apple news: ($) freestyle by rafael musa. news+ subscription requiredapple news mini: ($) daily mini by darby ratliff. news+ subscription requiredthe boston globe: mini crossword by sowmya ramkumar. .pdf, online.cnn: daily puzzle by patrick blindauer. online.crosswords with friends: smartypants saturday by donna s. levin. app store | google play crosswords with friends: midi puzzle by matt jones. app store | google play crosswords with friends: mini puzzle by robyn weintraub. app store | google play daily pop crosswords: by alan olschwang. app store | google play, online.los angeles times: by stacey yaruss mccullough & matthew stock. online, pdf. free cruciverb account for .puz.los angeles times mini: by elizabeth gorski. online.new york magazine: coin trick by matt gaffney. .pdf, online.new york sun: ($) warrior by doug peterson. reissues from 2006. new york times: ($) by barbara lin and lewis rothlein. online, .pdf, app.new york times mini: by christina iverson. online, app.newsday: saturday stumper by lester ruff. online .pdfplayfour: ($) daily puzzle. onlinesquared away: ($) daily puzzle. online.the telegraph: cross atlantic by ali gascoigne. online.universal: ($) winter themeless week, puzzle 6 by quinn george. online, pdf. .puz.usa today: duck duck goose by emily biegas & sala wanetick. online, .pdf, app.vox: do they know it’s christmas? 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morning… by francesco thorik saboia. .pdf, online. the daily pennsylvanian: daily mini puzzle by doer he .pdf, online. daily pop crosswords: by gail grabowski. app store | google play, online. duke chronicle: mini 115 (2/5/25) by ben matz. .puz, .pdf, online. frank virzi: mini #125 (5×5) by frank virzi. online at crosswordr. india mini crossword: daily mini .pdf, online. mangesh ghogre’s indian mini crosswords: daily mini by mangesh ghogre. .pdf, online. merriam webster: the missing letter by matt gaffney .pdf, online. the michigan daily: the mini. online. slate: slate midi: wednesday, feb. 5, 2025 by chandi deitmer. online, .pdf. slate: slate mini: wednesday, feb. 5, 2025 by quiara vasquez. online, .pdf. vox: by adesina o. koiki. .pdf, online. vulture 10×10: the commitmentphobe puzzle by stella zawistowski. .pdf, online. yourpuzzlesource: daily puzzle (midi) by phil fraas. .pdf, online. the boston globe: mini crossword by sowmya ramkumar. .pdf, online. cnn: daily puzzle by patrick blindauer. online. los angeles times: by paul coulter. online, pdf. free cruciverb account for .puz. los angeles times mini: by elizabeth gorski. online. mckinsey: cure all by peter gordon. .pdf, online. new york sun: ($) flip ’em by gary steinmehl. reissues from 2006. new york times: ($) by kiran pandey. online, .pdf, app. new york times mini: by joel fagliano. online, app. the new yorker: the crossword: wednesday, february 5, 2025 by caitlin reid. .pdf, online. newsday: 2/5/25 fowl mood by fred piscop. online .pdf playfour: ($) daily puzzle. online squared away: ($) daily puzzle. online. the telegraph: cross atlantic by john halpern. online. universal: ($) continental breakfast by darrell bridges. online, pdf. .puz. usa today: summit meeting by sally hoelscher. online, .pdf, app. the wall street journal: on the table by george barany & michael david. online, .pdf. .puz. washington post daily mini meta: by frank longo. online, .pdf. financial times: ft crossword .pdf. the guardian: cryptic crossword no 29,610 by harpo. .pdf, online. the hindu cryptic: daily cryptic .pdf, online. the independent: cryptic crossword .pdf, online. support daily crossword links check out the dcl’s staff recommendations from last week’s puzzles other american style links: reviews and discussion at diary of a crossword fiend | boatload puzzles/aarp | “crosscord” discord | crucidrama (en español) | cruciverbalista (en español) | easy crossword (newsday archives) | freedailycrosswords | medium crossword (newsday archives) | hard crossword (newsday archives) | r/crossword | usa today reviews and discussion at off the grid | squares.io | xword muggles meta calendar other cryptic/variety links: a frame games | cf.kmbweb.de links library | coxrathvon.com | harper’s ($) | lovatts | magpie ($) | mokelfish links library | mycrossword | npl | panda magazine ($) | private eye | puzzlecrypt archives | puzzling stackexchange | r/crosswords | sydney morning herald ($) | the telegraph | the times (uk) ($), includes the listener apple news: ($) year of the snake by zhouqin burnikel. news+ subscription required apple news mini: ($) daily mini by david steinberg. news+ subscription required the atlantic mini: by paolo pasco. .pdf, online. the columbia spectator: daily mini: 01/29/2025 by ananya govindarajan. .puz, .pdf, online. crosshare community: daily mini and featured puzzles. crossword flow: ($) by rafael musa. ipad exclusive app. crosswordr community: community puzzle platform. crosswords with friends: wayback wednesday by donna s. levin. app store | google play crosswords with friends: midi puzzle by jeff chen. app store | google play crosswords with friends: mini puzzle by jeff chen. app store | google play daily beast: scary movie, weds. jan. 29, 2025 by matt gaffney. .pdf, online. the daily northwestern: daily mini crossword, january 29, 2025 by michael tsang. .pdf, online. the daily northwestern: weekly crossword: hook… and sinker by max sullivan. .pdf, online. the daily pennsylvanian: daily puzzle .pdf, online. daily pop crosswords: by gail grabowski. app store | google play, online. frank virzi: mini #118 (5×5) by frank virzi. online at crosswordr. india mini crossword: daily mini .pdf, online. mangesh ghogre’s indian mini crosswords: daily mini by mangesh ghogre. .pdf, online. merriam webster: the missing letter by matt gaffney .pdf, online. the michigan daily: the mini. online. slate: slate midi: wednesday, jan. 29, 2025 by quiara vasquez. online, .pdf. slate: slate mini: wednesday, jan. 29, 2025 by quiara vasquez. online, .pdf. vox: by adesina o. koiki. .pdf, online. vulture 10×10: the friendly neighborhood puzzle by malaika handa. .pdf, online. yourpuzzlesource: daily puzzle (midi) by phil fraas. .pdf, online. the boston globe: mini crossword by sowmya ramkumar. .pdf, online. cnn: daily puzzle by patrick blindauer. online. los angeles times: by rebecca goldstein. online, pdf. free cruciverb account for .puz. los angeles times mini: by elizabeth gorski. online. mckinsey: that is to say by peter gordon. .pdf, online. new york sun: ($) warrior by jeffrey harris. reissues from 2006. new york times: ($) by sophia maymudes. online, .pdf, app. new york times mini: by ian livengood. online, app. the new yorker: the crossword: wednesday, january 29, 2025 by robyn weintraub. .pdf, online. newsday: 1/29/25 salon services by fred piscop. online .pdf playfour: ($) daily puzzle. online squared away: ($) daily puzzle. online. the telegraph: cross atlantic by steve bartlett. online. universal: ($) stretching exercises by matthew stock. online, pdf. .puz. usa today: year of the snake by zhouqin burnikel. online, .pdf, app. the wall street journal: urban wildlife by christopher youngs. online, .pdf. .puz. washington post daily mini meta: by frank longo. online, .pdf. financial times: ft crossword .pdf. the guardian: cryptic crossword no 29,604 by qaos. .pdf, online. the hindu cryptic: daily cryptic .pdf, online. the independent: cryptic crossword .pdf, online. support daily crossword links check out the dcl’s staff recommendations from last week’s puzzles other american style links: reviews and discussion at diary of a crossword fiend | boatload puzzles/aarp | “crosscord” discord | crucidrama (en español) | cruciverbalista (en español) | easy crossword (newsday archives) | freedailycrosswords | medium crossword (newsday archives) | hard crossword (newsday archives) | r/crossword | usa today reviews and discussion at off the grid | squares.io | xword muggles meta calendar other cryptic/variety links: a frame games | cf.kmbweb.de links library | coxrathvon.com | harper’s ($) | lovatts | magpie ($) | mokelfish links library | mycrossword | npl | panda magazine ($) | private eye | puzzlecrypt archives | puzzling stackexchange | r/crosswords | sydney morning herald ($) | the telegraph | the times (uk) ($), includes the listener apple news: ($) rollin’ … by daniel hrynick. news+ subscription required apple news mini: ($) daily mini by erik agard. news+ subscription required the atlantic mini: by paolo pasco. .pdf, online. crosshare community: daily mini and featured puzzles. crossword flow: ($) panic! at the demo by olivia mitra framke. ipad exclusive app. crosswordr community: community puzzle platform. crosswords with friends: wayback wednesday by tracy bennett. app store | google play crosswords with friends: midi puzzle by fred piscop. app store | google play crosswords with friends: mini puzzle by andy kravis. app store | google play daily beast: a man of few words, tues. jan. 21, 2025 by matt gaffney. .pdf, online. the daily northwestern: weekly crossword: a texas landmark. never forget it. by audrey pachuta. .pdf, online. the daily northwestern: daily mini crossword, january 22, 2025 by miguel tsang. .pdf, online. the daily pennsylvanian: daily puzzle by joyce lee .pdf, online. daily pop crosswords: by bonnie l. gentry. app store | google play, online. fordham observer: sudoku: january 22, 2025 (mini) by abby grunzinger. .pdf, online. frank virzi: mini #111 (5×5) by frank virzi. online at crosswordr. india mini crossword: daily mini by sowmya ramkumar .pdf, online. mangesh ghogre’s indian mini crosswords: daily mini by mangesh ghogre. .pdf, online. merriam webster: the missing letter by matt gaffney .pdf, online. scientific american: daily mini by ella dershowitz .pdf, online. slate: slate midi: wednesday, jan. 22, 2025 by chandi deitmer. online, .pdf. slate: slate mini: wednesday, jan. 22, 2025 by quiara vasquez. online, .pdf. vox: by adesina o. koiki. .pdf, online. vulture 10×10: the fab puzzle by stella zawistowski. .pdf, online. yourpuzzlesource: daily puzzle (midi) by phil fraas. .pdf, online. the boston globe: mini crossword by sowmya ramkumar. .pdf, online. cnn: daily puzzle by patrick blindauer. online. los angeles times: by parker higgins. online, pdf. free cruciverb account for .puz. los angeles times mini: by elizabeth gorski. online. mckinsey: davos by peter gordon. .pdf, online. new york sun: ($) “see ya!” by jack mcinturff. reissues from 2006. new york times: ($) by landon horton. online, .pdf, app. new york times mini: by wyna liu. online, app. the new yorker: the crossword: wednesday, january 22, 2025 by patrick berry. .pdf, online. newsday: 1/22/25 character study by guilherme gilioli. online .pdf playfour: ($) daily puzzle. online squared away: ($) daily puzzle. online. the telegraph: cross atlantic by steve bartlett. online. universal: ($) the chemistry is off by brian callahan. online, pdf. .puz. usa today: even distribution by hannah slovut einertson. online, .pdf, app. the wall street journal: exit stage left by robert s. gard. online, .pdf. .puz. washington post daily mini meta: by frank longo. online, .pdf. financial times: ft crossword .pdf. the guardian: cryptic crossword no 29,598 by brummie. .pdf, online. the hindu cryptic: daily cryptic .pdf, online. the independent: cryptic crossword .pdf, online. support daily crossword links check out the dcl’s staff recommendations from last week’s puzzles other american style links: reviews and discussion at diary of a crossword fiend | boatload puzzles/aarp | “crosscord” discord | crucidrama (en español) | cruciverbalista (en español) | easy crossword (newsday archives) | freedailycrosswords | medium crossword (newsday archives) | hard crossword (newsday archives) | r/crossword | usa today reviews and discussion at off the grid | squares.io | xword muggles meta calendar other cryptic/variety links: a frame games | cf.kmbweb.de links library | coxrathvon.com | harper’s ($) | lovatts | magpie ($) | mokelfish links library | mycrossword | npl | panda magazine ($) | private eye | puzzlecrypt archives | puzzling stackexchange | r/crosswords | sydney morning herald ($) | the telegraph | the times (uk) ($), includes the listener apple news: ($) living spaces by jesse guzman. news+ subscription required apple news mini: ($) daily mini by erik agard. news+ subscription required the atlantic mini: by paolo pasco. .pdf, online. crosshare community: daily mini and featured puzzles. crossword flow: ($) by igor ryzhkov. ipad exclusive app. crosswordr community: community puzzle platform. crosswords with friends: wayback wednesday by todd mcclary. app store | google play crosswords with friends: midi puzzle by stella zawistowski. app store | google play crosswords with friends: mini puzzle by zhouqin burnikel. app store | google play daily beast: a friend indeed, weds. jan. 15, 2025 by matt gaffney. .pdf, online. the daily northwestern: weekly crossword: purple pride by henry frieman. .pdf, online. daily pop crosswords: by gail grabowski. app store | google play, online. frank virzi: mini #104 (5×5) by frank virzi. online at crosswordr. india mini crossword: daily mini .pdf, online. mangesh ghogre’s indian mini crosswords: daily mini by mangesh ghogre. .pdf, online. merriam webster: the missing letter by matt gaffney .pdf, online. scientific american: daily mini .pdf, online. slate: slate midi: wednesday, jan. 15, 2025 by quiara vasquez. online, .pdf. slate: slate mini: wednesday, jan. 15, 2025 by quiara vasquez. online, .pdf. vox: by adesina o. koiki. .pdf, online. vulture 10×10: the discipline puzzle by stella zawistowski. .pdf, online. yourpuzzlesource: daily puzzle (midi) by phil fraas. .pdf, online. the boston globe: mini crossword by sowmya ramkumar. .pdf, online. cnn: daily puzzle by patrick blindauer. online. los angeles times: by mark mcclain. online, pdf. free cruciverb account for .puz. los angeles times mini: by elizabeth gorski. online. mckinsey: 2024 year in review by peter gordon. .pdf, online. new york magazine: lend me a tenner by matt gaffney. .pdf, online. new york sun: ($) say it with vowels by gary steinmehl. reissues from 2006. new york times: ($) by parker higgins. online, .pdf, app. new york times mini: by christina iverson. online, app. the new yorker: the crossword: wednesday, january 15, 2025 by caitlin reid. .pdf, online. newsday: 1/15/25 on foot by prasanna keshava. online .pdf playfour: ($) daily puzzle. online squared away: ($) daily puzzle. online. the telegraph: cross atlantic by steve bartlett. online. universal: ($) you couldn’t be more wrong by paul coulter. online, pdf. .puz. usa today: she is my scar (freestyle) by amie walker & amanda rafkin. online, .pdf, app. the wall street journal: career false starts by david alfred bywaters. online, .pdf. .puz. washington post daily mini meta: by frank longo. online, .pdf. financial times: ft crossword .pdf. the globe and mail: the daily cryptic crossword. .pdf, online. the guardian: cryptic crossword no 29,592 by kite. .pdf, online. the hindu cryptic: daily cryptic .pdf, online. the independent: cryptic crossword .pdf, online. support daily crossword links check out the dcl’s staff recommendations from last week’s puzzles other american style links: reviews and discussion at diary of a crossword fiend | boatload puzzles/aarp | 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exclusive app. crosswordr community: community puzzle platform. crosswords with friends: wayback wednesday by donna s. levin. app store | google play crosswords with friends: midi puzzle by zhouqin burnikel. app store | google play crosswords with friends: mini puzzle by patrick berry. app store | google play daily beast: morning mourning, weds. jan. 8, 2025 by matt gaffney. .pdf, online. daily pop crosswords: by samuel a. donaldson. app store | google play, online. frank virzi: mini #97 (5×5) by frank virzi. online at crosswordr. india mini crossword: daily mini .pdf, online. mangesh ghogre’s indian mini crosswords: daily mini by mangesh ghogre. .pdf, online. merriam webster: the missing letter by matt gaffney .pdf, online. slate: slate midi: wednesday, jan. 8, 2025 by chandi deitmer. online, .pdf. slate: slate mini: wednesday, jan. 8, 2025 by quiara vasquez. online, .pdf. vox: by adesina o. koiki. .pdf, online. yourpuzzlesource: daily puzzle (midi) by phil fraas. .pdf, online. the boston globe: mini crossword by sowmya ramkumar. .pdf, online. cnn: daily puzzle by patrick blindauer. online. los angeles times: by catherine cetta. online, pdf. free cruciverb account for .puz. los angeles times mini: by elizabeth gorski. online. mckinsey: play time by peter gordon. .pdf, online. new york sun: ($) all in the family by donna s. levin. reissues from 2006. new york times: ($) by laura dershewitz. online, .pdf, app. new york times mini: by wyna liu. online, app. the new yorker: the crossword: wednesday, january 8, 2025 by robyn weintraub. .pdf, online. newsday: 1/8/25 cookbook bits by steve faiella. online .pdf playfour: ($) daily puzzle. online squared away: ($) daily puzzle. online. the telegraph: cross atlantic by john halpern. online. universal: ($) takeoff sequence by desiree penner and jeff sinnock. online, pdf. .puz. usa today: league leaders by brian callahan. online, .pdf, app. the wall street journal: short changed by lynn lempel. online, .pdf. .puz. washington post daily mini meta: by frank longo. online, .pdf. financial times: ft crossword .pdf. the globe and mail: the daily cryptic crossword. .pdf, online. the guardian: cryptic crossword no 29,586 by pasquale. .pdf, online. the hindu cryptic: daily cryptic .pdf, online. the independent: cryptic crossword .pdf, online. support daily crossword links check out the dcl’s staff recommendations from last week’s puzzles other american style links: reviews and discussion at diary of a crossword fiend | boatload puzzles/aarp | “crosscord” discord | crucidrama (en español) | cruciverbalista (en español) | easy crossword (newsday archives) | freedailycrosswords | medium crossword (newsday archives) | hard crossword (newsday archives) | r/crossword | usa today reviews and discussion at off the grid | squares.io | xword muggles meta calendar other cryptic/variety links: a frame games | cf.kmbweb.de links library | coxrathvon.com | harper’s ($) | lovatts | magpie ($) | mokelfish links library | mycrossword | npl | panda magazine ($) | private eye | puzzlecrypt archives | puzzling stackexchange | r/crosswords | sydney morning herald ($) | the telegraph | the times (uk) ($), includes the listener apple news: ($) freestyle by kelsey dixon. news+ subscription required apple news mini: ($) daily mini by erik agard. news+ subscription required the atlantic mini: by paolo pasco. .pdf, online. crosshare community: daily mini and featured puzzles. crossword flow: ($) by igor ryzhkov. ipad exclusive app. crosswordr community: community puzzle platform. crosswords with friends: wayback wednesday by david steinberg. app store | google play crosswords with friends: midi puzzle by andy kravis. app store | google play crosswords with friends: mini puzzle by doug peterson. app store | google play daily beast: lack of elf control, tues. dec. 31, 2024 by matt gaffney. .pdf, online. the daily pennsylvanian: daily puzzle .pdf, online. daily pop crosswords: by angela kinsella olson. app store | google play, online. frank virzi: mini #90 (5×5) by frank virzi. online at crosswordr. india mini crossword: daily mini .pdf, online. mangesh ghogre’s indian mini crosswords: daily mini by mangesh ghogre. .pdf, online. merriam webster: the missing letter by matt gaffney .pdf, online. the michigan daily: the mini. online. slate: slate mini: wednesday, jan. 1, 2025 by mike dirolf. online, .pdf. slate: slate midi: wednesday, jan. 1, 2025 by quiara vasquez. online, .pdf. vox: by adesina o. koiki. .pdf, online. vulture 10×10: the fowl puzzle by malaika handa. .pdf, online. yourpuzzlesource: daily puzzle (midi) by phil fraas. .pdf, online. the boston globe: mini crossword by sowmya ramkumar. .pdf, online. cnn: daily puzzle by patrick blindauer. online. los angeles times: by jay silverman. online, pdf. free cruciverb account for .puz. los angeles times mini: by elizabeth gorski. online. mckinsey: get cracking by peter gordon. .pdf, online. new york sun: ($) mammal moves by raymond hamel. reissues from 2006. new york times: ($) by seth bisen hersh and jeff chen. online, .pdf, app. new york times monthly bonus: extremely online in 2024 by paolo pasco. online, .pdf, .puz. new york times mini: by tracy bennett. online, app. the new yorker: the crossword: wednesday, january 1, 2025   so much to say by adam aaronson. .pdf, online. newsday: 1/1/25 web sharing by prasanna keshava. online .pdf playfour: ($) daily puzzle. online squared away: ($) daily puzzle. online. the telegraph: cross atlantic by john halpern. online. universal: ($) cookie cutter by ricky sirois. online, pdf. .puz. usa today: evs by olivia mitra framke & sally hoelscher. online, .pdf, app. washington post daily mini meta: by frank longo. online, .pdf. financial times: ft crossword .pdf. the globe and mail: the daily cryptic crossword. .pdf, online. the guardian: cryptic crossword no 29,580 by picaroon. .pdf, online. the hindu cryptic: daily cryptic .pdf, online. the independent: cryptic crossword .pdf, online. support daily crossword links check out the dcl’s staff recommendations from last week’s puzzles other american style links: reviews and discussion at diary of a crossword fiend | boatload puzzles/aarp | “crosscord” discord | crucidrama (en español) | cruciverbalista (en español) | easy crossword (newsday archives) | freedailycrosswords | medium crossword (newsday archives) | hard crossword (newsday archives) | r/crossword | usa today reviews and discussion at off the grid | squares.io | xword muggles meta calendar other cryptic/variety links: a frame games | cf.kmbweb.de links library | coxrathvon.com | harper’s ($) | lovatts | magpie ($) | mokelfish links library | mycrossword | npl | panda magazine ($) | private eye | puzzlecrypt archives | puzzling stackexchange | r/crosswords | sydney morning herald ($) | the telegraph | the times (uk) ($), includes the listener black crossword: mini by juliana pache. .pdf, online. club 72: freestyle 972 by tim croce. .puz, .pdf. crosshare community: daily mini and featured puzzles. crosswordr community: community puzzle platform. frank virzi: mini #83 (5×5) by frank virzi. online at crosswordr. india mini crossword: daily mini .pdf, online. jeff’s puzzles: chappy chanukah by jeff linder. .puz, .pdf, online. mangesh ghogre’s indian mini crosswords: daily mini by mangesh ghogre. .pdf, online. meow: what would santa say? (meta) by drtom. .puz, .pdf, online. muller monthly music meta: 2024 mega meta by pete muller. .puz,. pdf, online. tough as nails: tough as nails themeless #129 by stella zawistowski. .puz, .pdf yourpuzzlesource: daily puzzle (midi) by phil fraas. .pdf, online. apple news: ($) storage space by gary cee. news+ subscription required apple news mini: ($) daily mini by erik agard. news+ subscription required the atlantic mini: by paolo pasco. .pdf, online. the boston globe: mini crossword by sowmya ramkumar. .pdf, online. cnn: daily puzzle by patrick blindauer. online. crosswords with friends: wayback wednesday by fred piscop. app store | google play crosswords with friends: midi puzzle by matt jones. app store | google play crosswords with friends: mini puzzle by nate cardin. app store | google play daily beast: eve solve, tues. dec. 24, 2024 by matt gaffney. .pdf, online. daily pop crosswords: by robin stears. app store | google play, online. los angeles times: by samantha podos nowak. online, pdf. free cruciverb account for .puz. los angeles times mini: by elizabeth gorski. online. mckinsey: zip your lip by peter gordon. .pdf, online. new york sun: ($) themeless by jeffrey harris. reissues from 2006. new york times: ($) by jacob mcdermott. online, .pdf, app. new york times mini: by ian livengood. online, app. the new yorker: the holiday crossword: wednesday, december 25, 2024   2024 in music by elizabeth c. gorski. .pdf, online. newsday: 12/25/24 have a belt by jerry clarkson. online .pdf playfour: ($) daily puzzle. online slate: by mike dirolf. online, .pdf. squared away: ($) daily puzzle. online. the telegraph: cross atlantic by steve bartlett. online. universal: ($) special delivery by sam acker. online, pdf. .puz. usa today: twice the fun (freestyle) by amanda rafkin. online, .pdf, app. vox: by adesina o. koiki. .pdf, online. vulture 10×10: the vampire puzzle by stella zawistowski. .pdf, online. washington post daily mini meta: by frank longo. online, .pdf. financial times: ft crossword .pdf. the globe and mail: the daily cryptic crossword. .pdf, online. the hindu cryptic: daily cryptic .pdf, online. the independent: cryptic crossword .pdf, online. support daily crossword links check out the dcl’s staff recommendations from last week’s puzzles other american style links: reviews and discussion at diary of a crossword fiend | boatload puzzles/aarp | “crosscord” discord | crucidrama (en español) | cruciverbalista (en español) | easy crossword (newsday archives) | freedailycrosswords | medium crossword (newsday archives) | hard crossword (newsday archives) | r/crossword | usa today reviews and discussion at off the grid | squares.io | xword muggles meta calendar other cryptic/variety links: a frame games | cf.kmbweb.de links library | coxrathvon.com | harper’s ($) | lovatts | magpie ($) | mokelfish links library | mycrossword | npl | panda magazine ($) | private eye | puzzlecrypt archives | puzzling stackexchange | r/crosswords | sydney morning herald ($) | the telegraph | the times (uk) ($), includes the listener black crossword: mini by juliana pache. .pdf, online. club 72: freestyle 970 by tim croce. .puz, .pdf. crosshare community: daily mini and featured puzzles. india mini crossword: daily mini .pdf, online. mangesh ghogre’s indian mini crosswords: daily mini by mangesh ghogre. .pdf, online. meow: nice work if you can get it (meta) by drtom. .puz, .pdf, online. xwordswithbabka: early days by dan schwartz. .puz, .pdf, online. yourpuzzlesource: daily puzzle (midi) by phil fraas. .pdf, online. the daily pennsylvanian: daily puzzle .pdf, online. the michigan daily: the mini. online. apple news: ($) grrr! 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hi there, we would like to thank you for choosing this website to find the answers of set down on paper crossword clue, which is a part of the new york times january 01 2025. do not hesitate to take a look at the answer in order to finish this clue. putinwriting for additional clues from today’s puzzle, please use our master topic for nyt crossword january 01 2025. the answers are mentioned there. edited by will shortz, created by seth bisen hersh and jeff chen. about us games answers provide help, hints, tips and tricks for puzzle and trivia games available on android and app store, all solutions are listed level by level. disclaimer game answer is not affiliated with the app developers, we are just giving help to players to advance on their games. all intellectual property, trademarks, and copyrighted material is property of their respective developers. for technical support about any game, you can contact the developer via play store. terms neve | powered by wordpress about us games answers provide help, hints, tips and tricks for puzzle and trivia games available on android and app store, all solutions are listed level by level. disclaimer game answer is not affiliated with the app developers, we are just giving help to players to advance on their games. all intellectual property, trademarks, and copyrighted material is property of their respective developers. for technical support about any game, you can contact the developer via play store. terms neve | powered by wordpress

some helpful information in case you're not familiar with this theme. note that the central dreidel is made of c l a y letters. answer summary:3 unique to this puzzle. there are 15 rows and 15 columns, with 16 circles, 0 rebus squares, and 4 cheater squares (marked with "+" in the colorized grid below.) the grid uses 22 of 26 letters, missing jqxz. it has mirror symmetry. average word length: 4.69, scrabble score: 287, scrabble average: 1.59. puzzle has 7 fill in the blank clues and 0 cross reference clues. duplicate clues: symbols of wisdom this puzzle has 3 unique answer words. it has 0 words that debuted in this puzzle and were later reused: these 26 answer words are not legal scrabble™ entries, which sometimes means they are interesting: various thumbnail views are shown: crosswords that share the most words with this one (excluding sundays): unusual or long words that appear elsewhere: other puzzles with the same block pattern as this one: other crosswords with exactly 44 blocks, 77 words, 68 open squares, and an average word length of 4.69: the next two sections attempt to show how fresh the grid entries are. in this view, unusual answers are colored depending on how often they have appeared in other puzzles. unique answers are in red, red overwrites orange which overwrites yellow, etc. cheater squares are indicated with a + sign. freshness factor is a calculation that compares the number of times words in this puzzle have appeared in other modern era puzzles. click here for an explanation. the chart below shows how many times each word has been used across all nyt puzzles, old and modern including variety. found bugs or have suggestions? please let us know. like this puzzle? please share this page on social media to help spread the word about xword info. thanks!

seth bisen hersh is an american author, performer, composer/lyricist,[1] producer, and crossword puzzle constructor.[2] bisen hersh grew up in east brunswick, new jersey.[3] he graduated from the massachusetts institute of technology with two bachelor's degrees (in computer science and music) in 2001, then earned a master's degree in music technology from new york university in 2003.[4][5] bisen hersh's interest in musical theater started young, and he grew up performing in children's theater productions during summers, as well as performing with local performing arts groups. he started producing and writing shows during his undergraduate studies at mit, and became serious about pursuing a career in musical theatre during his time at graduate school in new york.[6] his first professional musical theater production was meaningless sex which premiered at the 2003 new york international fringe festival, where it won the audience favorite award.[7][8] the following year he won the nyc fringe festival's audience favorite award for a second time, with his new musical the spickner spin.[9] he has written the score (music and lyrics) for numerous musical theatre productions, including meaningless sex, the spickner spin, more to love, stanley’s party, love quirks, the diamond as big as the ritz, malka and agatha christie’s the secret adversary. in 2010, he wrote a children's stage show titled stanley’s party, based on the popular books stanley’s wild ride and stanley’s party by linda bailey. the production had a six week run at the manhattan children's theatre.[10] in 2014, bisen hersh wrote the music for more to love, which debuted at the west village musical theatre festival, where it won an award for best lyrics.[6] in 2016, bisen hersh turned his web series, every day a little seth into a sitcom pilot.[11] his musical love quirks started life as a song cycle for a cabaret night at famed ny cabaret venue don't tell mama. bisen hersh worked with director brian childers and book writer mark childers to create a musical theatre show around some of his most popular cabaret songs, with a plotline revolving around a group of roommates exploring the bizarre tribulations of love and friendship. love quirks had a three week run at theatre 54 in 2014. in 2020, after some years of development, the show transferred to the off broadway venue st. luke's theater where preview performances were disrupted by the covid 19 pandemic, the production was ultimately cancelled three days before opening night. love quirks finally opened at the amt theater in manhattan in 2022, where it ran for twelve weeks, winning four broadwayworld awards, including best new score for a musical.[12][13][14][15] in 2017, he wrote the music and lyrics to a musical theatre production adapted from f. scott fitzgerald’s the diamond as big as the ritz (with book written by r.c. staab), which had successful readings in 2017 and 2018. the production is scheduled for a three week run at ata theatre in september 2024.[16][17] one of the songs from the musical, enough already, was turned into a music video starring mario lopez and was a finalist in london's prestigious 2019 stiles & drewe best new song prize.[18][19] in april 2024, bisen hersh's broadway bound musical agatha christie’s the secret adversary: a mystery musical (also adapted from the novel, and with book by r.c. staab) had its first reading.[20] in june 2024, bisen hersh produced a short musical film inspired by his grandmother’s holocaust experience. the short, titled malka, starred tovah feldshuh.[21] bisen hersh has produced over 800 cabarets at nyc’s famous cabaret venue don’t tell mama, including his weekly showcase series, which started in 2017. he has also produced dozens of concerts of his songs with broadway performers over the years. additionally, he wrote 10 cabaret song cycles of his work: and then she dumped me (2003), the gayest straight man alive (2004), meaningful sex (2005), neurotic tendencies (2006), why am i not famous yet? (2007), writers block (2008), i’ll relax when i’m dead (2010), if adele can do it, so can i (2013), not your grandma’s cabaret (unless she’s really naughty) (2014), and self isolation song cycle.[22][23] bisen hersh has self published four books. his first, published in 2015, was a memoir titled sleep. write. now: emerging from a dark year of insomnia, anxiety and depression from loss composed of journal entries, emails, poems and song lyrics, exploring his year of struggling with mental illness. in 2016 he published an essay collection linked to his webseries, titled every page a little seth. 2018 saw the publication of his third, millennials are ruining the world!, a collection of humorous essays on the generation divide, which was turned into an audio book in 2019. his fourth book, the making of a musical: the 12 year journey of love quirks was released in february 2024.[24] in 2019, bisen hersh turned his third book into a podcast millennials are ruining the world? an xennial perspective". the podcast has since completed 5 seasons and 53 episodes.[25] bisen hersh made his debut as a crossword puzzle writer in the la times on 23 september 2019,[26] and has since been published in the new york times,[27] the wall street journal,[28] the wall street journal and universal crossword, amongst other publications.

pay now and get access for a year. answer summary:4 unique to this puzzle, 1 unique to modern era but used previously. there are 15 rows and 15 columns, with 0 rebus squares, and 10 cheater squares (marked with "+" in the colorized grid below.) the grid uses 24 of 26 letters, missing vx. it has normal rotational symmetry. average word length: 5.08, scrabble score: 295, scrabble average: 1.61. puzzle has 7 fill in the blank clues and 1 cross reference clue. this puzzle has 4 unique answer words. it has 0 words that debuted in this puzzle and were later reused: these words are unique to the modern era but have appeared in pre shortz puzzles: these 30 answer words are not legal scrabble™ entries, which sometimes means they are interesting: various thumbnail views are shown: crosswords that share the most words with this one (excluding sundays): unusual or long words that appear elsewhere: other puzzles with the same block pattern as this one: other crosswords with exactly 42 blocks, 72 words, 68 open squares, and an average word length of 5.08: the next two sections attempt to show how fresh the grid entries are. in this view, unusual answers are colored depending on how often they have appeared in other puzzles. unique answers are in red, red overwrites orange which overwrites yellow, etc. cheater squares are indicated with a + sign. freshness factor is a calculation that compares the number of times words in this puzzle have appeared in other modern era puzzles. click here for an explanation. the chart below shows how many times each word has been used across all nyt puzzles, old and modern including variety. found bugs or have suggestions? please let us know. like this puzzle? please share this page on social media to help spread the word about xword info. thanks!

nyxcrossword.com answers to the new york times crossword constructed by: seth bisen hersh & jeff chen edited by: will shortz not your puzzle? try today’s … … syndicated ny times crossword today’s reveal answer: spin themed answers each start with an action taken when a specific side shows up after spinning a dreidel made of clay. the black squares in the center of the grid represent a dreidel, and the squares within only use the letters “c l a y”: read on, or jump to … … a complete list of answers want to discuss the puzzle? then … … leave a comment bill’s time: 7m 39s bill’s errors: 0 we might call a little imp a “rapscallion”, an evolution from “rascallion” that in turn comes from “rascal”. the etymology of the term “gasoline”, meaning “fuel of automobiles”, is a little murky. the most common suggestion is that it comes from the trademark “cazeline” used by english business entrepreneur john cassell who marketed patent cazeline oil in the early 1860s. soon after, a dublin shopkeeper 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manufacture of planes during wwii. before the factory and airport were built, there was a community in the area called orchard place, so the airport was called orchard place airport/douglas field. this name is the derivation of the airport’s current location identifier: ord (or chard d ouglas). orchard place airport was renamed to o’hare international in 1949 in honor of lieutenant commander butch o’hare who grew up in chicago. o’hare was the us navy’s first flying ace and a medal of honor recipient in wwii. to be on the lam is to be in flight, to have escaped from prison. “on the lam” is american slang that originated at the end of the 19th century. the word “lam” also means “beat” or “thrash”, as in “lambaste”. so “on the lam” might derive from the phrase “to beat it, scram”. british director christopher nolan was best known for some time for “rescuing” the floundering batman movie franchise. in that series, nolan directed “batman begins” and “the dark knight”. he was also at the helm of a couple of sci fi movies that i really enjoyed, namely “inception” (2010) and “interstellar” (2014). and then, along came “oppenheimer” … “oppenheimer” is an epic 2023 film starring cillian murphy in the title role. the movie follows j. robert oppenheimer, “the father of the atomic bomb”, from his student days right through world war ii and beyond. directed by christopher nolan, the film has an amazing ensemble cast that includes: free throw (ft) “the simpsons” is one of the most successful programs produced by the fox broadcasting company. homer simpson’s catchphrase is “d’oh!”, which became such a famous exclamation that it has been included in the oxford english dictionary (oed) since 2001. “d’oh!” can be translated as “i should have thought of that!” neo is the character played by keanu reeves in “the matrix” series of films. the 1999 movie sensation “the matrix” was meant to be set in a nondescript urban environment. it was actually shot in australia, as one of the co producers of the film was the australian company, village roadshow pictures. you can pick up all sorts of clues about the location when watching the film, including a view of sydney harbour bridge in a background shot. also, traffic drives along on the left and there are signs for the “lift” instead of an “elevator”. paul cézanne was a post impressionist artist who was born and worked in the beautiful city of aix en provence in the south of france. cézanne has the reputation of being the artist who bridged the late 19th century impressionist movement with the early 20th century cubist movement. both henri matisse and pablo picasso are quoted as saying that cézanne “is the father of us all”. actress sandra dee started out as a model before moving into film. after a promising start to her career it seemed to peter out, and the public became more interested in her 7 year marriage to bobby darin. and of course she will forever be remembered from the song in the movie and stage show “grease” called “look at me, i’m sandra dee”. “the mystery of edwin drood” is an unfinished novel by charles dickens. the story itself is centered not on the title character, but on edwin drood’s uncle, a choirmaster named john jasper. one might say “ni hao” in chinese to mean “hello”, although a more literal translation is “you good”. the original use of the word “pineapple” was to describe what we now call a pine cone, the reproductive organ of a conifer tree. the term “pineapple” was then used by europeans when they first encountered the tropical fruit, because it looked like a large pine cone. ellen degeneres is a very, very successful tv personality, having parlayed her career in stand up comedy into lucrative gigs as an actress and talk show host. back in 1997 degeneres chose the “oprah winfrey show” to announce that she was a lesbian. her character on “the ellen show” also came out as a lesbian in a scene with her therapist, who was played by oprah winfrey. nice twist! the abacus (plural “abaci”) was used as a counting frame long before man had invented a numbering system. it is a remarkable invention, particularly when one notes that abaci are still widely used today across africa and asia. financier michael milken is the man most associated with the founding of the junk bond market in the 1980s. milken made a personal fortune, but ended up spending two years in jail after being found guilty of securities fraud in 1989. “charlie and the chocolate factory” is a 1964 novel for children penned by british author roald dahl. the two main character’s in the story are young schoolboy charlie bucket, and chocolate manufacturer willy wonka. dahl was inspired to write the novel by his exposure to the rivalry between britain’s two major chocolatiers: cadbury and rowntree. “bigot” is a french word that back in the late 1500s meant “sanctimonious person, religious hypocrite”. we use the term today to describe someone who is biased towards his or her own group, and who is intolerant of those outside of that group. supposedly, nicolas chauvin was a french soldier who exhibited fierce loyalty for france despite being wounded 17 times in the service of his country and being left severely disfigured and maimed. the name chauvin migrated into the french language, and ultimately into english, as “chauvinism”, a term describing exaggerated and blind patriotism. today “chauvinism” is often used interchangeably with the expression “male chauvinism”, the belief that men are superior to women. the oft quoted statement “veni, vidi, vici” (“i came, i saw, i conquered”) is believed by many to have been written by julius caesar. the words date back to 47 bce and refer to the short war between rome and pharnaces ii of pontus. teri hatcher’s most famous role is the susan mayer character on the tv comedy drama “desperate housewives”. i’ve never seen more than a few minutes of “housewives” but i do know teri hatcher as a bond girl, as she appeared in “tomorrow never dies”. more recently, she portrayed lois lane on the show “lois & clark”. sir patrick stewart is perhaps most famous for playing captain jean luc picard in “star trek: the next generation”. stewart’s hollywood career became so successful that he moved from the uk to los angeles, but he returned to his homeland in 2004. he stated at the time that he was homesick, and wanted to get back to playing roles in the theater. elton john’s real name is reginald dwight. sir elton was knighted in 1998, not for his music per se, but for his charitable work. he founded his own elton john aids foundation back in 1992. john lennon and yoko ono had a very public honeymoon in a hotel in amsterdam and then montreal, when they staged their famous “bed in” for peace. in answering questions from reporters lennon found himself often repeating the words “give peace a chance”. while still in bed, he composed his famous song “give peace a chance” and even made the original recording of the song in the montreal hotel room, with reporters present, and with a whole bunch of friends. the song was released later in 1969 and became a smash hit. writing credit was initially given to lennon mccartney, as was the agreement between john lennon and paul mccartney. later versions of the song were credited just to lennon, even though lennon stated that yoko ono actually wrote the song with him. “the golden girls” is a sitcom that originally aired in the eighties and nineties. the show features bea arthur, betty white, rue mcclanahan and estelle getty as four older women who share a house in miami. to slough off is to cast off, especially when one is talking about the skin of a snake or other animal. a pew is a church bench, usually one with a high back. the original pews were raised and sometimes enclosed seats in the church used by women and important men or families. “pew” comes from the old french “puie” meaning “balcony, elevation”. there are two species of alligator in the world today: the chinese alligator that is native to china, and the american alligator that is native to the southwest us. the term “alligator” likely comes from the spanish “el lagarto” meaning “the lizard”. the spanish used the name “el lagarto” for the american alligator when they were settling what is now florida. ireland is often referred to as “the emerald isle” (and described as “green”). there is a common misconception that the association with the color green is because of all that green grass that grows due to the seemingly non stop rain. however, the use of green has more political overtones, as it is associated with many of the rebellions against british colonial rule over the centuries. the shetland islands in scotland have given their name to a few breeds of animals, including shetland cattle, shetland ponies, shetland sheep, shetland sheepdogs and shetland geese. the shetlands lie about 110 miles northeast of the scottish mainland. the merino breed of sheep is prized for the soft quality of its wool. “yenta” (also “yente”) is actually a female yiddish name. in yiddish theater “yenta” came to mean a busybody, a gossip. comic actress mae west can be quoted so easily, as she had so many great lines delivered so well. here are a few: the term “cider” is used in most english speaking countries to describe the alcoholic drink made from fermented apple juice. here in the us, we often use the term to describe sweetened, unfiltered apple juice, and use “hard cider” to describe the alcoholic beverage. so in britain and ireland, beware of what you order … the most famous whale hunting ship in fiction has to be herman melville’s pequod, which is featured in his novel “moby dick”. it is skippered by the maniacal captain ahab, and the young chief mate is the thoughtful and intellectual starbuck. starbuck’s name was lifted and used by the seattle based coffee company. “simian” means “pertaining to monkeys or apes”, from the latin word “simia” meaning “ape”. something described as “nefarious” is extremely wicked. the term comes from the latin “nefarius” meaning “wicked”, which in turn comes from “nefas” meaning crime, or “ne ” (not) and “fas” (right). the kennedy half dollar is a 50 cent coin that was first issued in 1964 as a memorial to president john f. kennedy, who had been assassinated the year before. even though a lot of the coins were minted, and still are, they are rarely seen in circulation. the first minting disappeared almost immediately as collectors and regular individuals put the coins away as a memento or an investment. an ironman triathlon is a race involving a 2.4 mile swim, a 112 mile bike ride, and a marathon run of just over 26 miles. the idea for the race came out of a debate between some runners in the 1977 oahu perimeter relay. they were questioning whether runners, swimmers or bikers were the most fit athletes. the debaters decided to combine three local events to determine the answer, inviting athletes from all three disciplines. the events that were mimicked in the first triathlon were the waikiki roughwater swim (2.4 miles), the around oahu bike race (115 miles) and the honolulu marathon (26.2 miles). the idea was that whoever finishes first would be called “the iron man”. the first triathlon was run in 1978, with fifteen starters and only twelve finishers. the race format is used all over the world now, but the hawaiian ironman is the event that everyone wants to win. “alicia keys” is the stage name of alicia cook, an r&b and soul singer from hell’s kitchen in new york city. our word “obituary” comes from the latin “obituaris”. the latin term was used for “record of the death of a person”, although the literal meaning is “pertaining to death”. new year’s eve (nye) the university of california, los angeles (ucla) gets more applications from potential students than any other university in the country. ucla also has more students enrolled than any other university in the state. a dreidel is a spinning top with four sides that is often associated with the jewish holiday of hanukkah. each of the four sides on a dreidel bears a letter from the hebrew alphabet (nun, gimel, hei and shin). the four letters are the initials of the hebrew phrase “nes gadol hayah sham” meaning “a great miracle happened there”. according to tradition, children would be taught torah while hiding in caves away from the greeks. when greek soldiers approached, the children would hide their torah scrolls and play with their dreidels instead. jared leto is an actor and musician. in the world of music, he is the lead singer and rhythm guitarist for the rock band 30 seconds to mars. in the film world, one of his most critically acclaimed roles was that of a heroin addict in “requiem for a dream”. leto also appeared in “american psycho”, “panic room” and “lord of war”. he won a best supporting actor oscar for his performance in 2013’s “dallas buyers club”, in which he portrayed a transgender woman. the greek goddess athena (sometimes “athene”) is often associated with wisdom, among other attributes. in many representations. athena is depicted with an owl sitting on her head. it is this linkage of the owl with the goddess of wisdom that led to today’s perception of the owl as being “wise”. athena’s roman counterpart was minerva. a wonk is an overly studious person. “wonk” is an american slang term that has been around at least since 1954. more recently, “wonk” has acquired an air of respectability as it has come to mean someone who has studied a topic thoroughly and become somewhat expert. “very good” is written as “sehr gut” in german, and as “très bien” in french. arlo guthrie is the son of woody guthrie. both father and son are renowned for singing protest songs about social injustice. arlo is most famous for his epic “alice’s restaurant massacree”, a song that lasts a full 18m 34s. in the song guthrie tells how, after being drafted, he was rejected for service in the vietnam war based on his criminal record. he had only one incident on his public record, a thanksgiving day arrest for littering and being a public nuisance when he was 18 years old. “gelt” is the yiddish word for “money”. when i was growing up in ireland we played “noughts and crosses” … our name for the game tic tac toe. read on, or … … return to top of page 1 rapscallion : scamp 6 certain tankful : gas 9 kind of game that’s a pitcher’s dream : no hit 14 micronesian island that was the setting for a season of “survivor” : palau 15 tuna type : ahi 16 airport near the intersection of i 90 and i 294 : o’hare 17 cove : inlet 18 on the ___ : lam 19 christopher who directed “oppenheimer” : nolan 20 slangy suffix with “most” :  est 21 “ok … tell me” : … i’ll bite 24 n.b.a. 1 pointers: abbr. : fts 25 exclamation from homer : d’oh 26 hero of “the matrix” : neo 27 “a work of ___ that isn’t based on feeling isn’t ___ at all”: cézanne : art 28 “look at me, i’m sandra ___” (“grease” song) : dee 29 dickens’s “the mystery of ___ drood” : edwin 31 chinese greeting : ni hao 33 tool for a pineapple : corer 35 1990s sitcom featuring a bookstore : ellen 38 you can count on them : abaci 39 rating for junk bonds : ccc 42 candymaker wonka : willy 43 chauvinist or racist : bigot 44 in the style of : a la 45 start of caesar’s boast : i came … 46 actress hatcher : teri 47 deposit, as an egg : lay 48 patrick stewart and elton john, for two : sirs 49 singer on “give peace a chance” : ono 51 “golden girls” actress arthur : bea 52 sheds, with “off” : sloughs … 56 stylish tote for an executive : workbag 60 worshiping rows : pews 61 cousin of a croc : gator 63 the emerald isle : eire 64 “___ have to do” : it’ll 65 like the breeds shetland and merino : ovine 66 talk like this! : yell 67 like a yenta : nosy 68 props for close up magicians : decks 69 arrogant sort : snot 1 worked for the c.i.a., perhaps : spied 2 playground retort : can so! 3 super trendy : all the rage 4 west who said “men are my life, diamonds are my career” : mae 5 set down on paper : put in writing 6 cider unit : gallon 7 starbuck’s higher up? : ahab 8 ape or monkey : simian 9 in the dark about something nefarious : none the wiser 10 “well, lookee there!” : oho! 11 place to see j.f.k. : half dollar 12 hopping mad : irate 13 past, present or future : tense 22 flowery necklace : lei 23 multisport race, in short : tri 30 in a prim and proper way : decorously 32 singer with the #1 albums “as i am” and “girl on fire” : alicia keys 33 what you might call a tipsy friend : cab 34 last words? : obit 36 symbols of wisdom : elms 37 12/31 : nye 39 part of u.c.l.a.: abbr. : cal 40 material used to make the object “illustrated” here, in a seasonal song : clay 41 coral island : cay 50 “yikes!” : oh god! 51 puts to sleep, say : bores 52 take a turn with the object illustrated by the central black squares in this puzzle (leading to one of the four circled results) : spin 53 oscar winning jared : leto 54 symbols of wisdom : owls 55 word processing command : save 56 policy nerd : wonk 57 “très ___” : bien 58 singer guthrie : arlo 59 chocolate money won or lost in this puzzle’s game : gelt 62 ___ tac toe : tic leave a comment (below), or … … return to top of page 10:29 after correcting a typo that gave me cac and cigot (!). (i had to answer the phone in the middle of the solve, which messed things up in more ways than one … 😳.) i finally noticed: as of a day or two ago, will shortz is back! i too see that will shortz is back. good news. pleased for his recovery. 11:55, no errors. i gave it a good spin. 10:29, no errors. didn’t realize, until after i posted, that dave and i ended in a photo finish. happy 2025 to all. 11 min, no errors did not know the game of dreidel. now i do. dont speak yiddish no errors…another jeff chen and partner (always a partner) rat maze. stay safe😀 go eagles🏈 while i don’t have a problem with this puzzle in general, i do take issue with the answer to “well lookee there!” i don’t know anybody and i mean anybody that uses the term “oho.” please, please, please, will and other xwords editors/constructors…stop using this silly and very antiquated middle english expressional non word. your email address will not be published. required fields are marked * comment * name email website δdocument.getelementbyid( "ak_js_1" ).setattribute( "value", ( new date() ).gettime() );

january 14th, 2024   roaming rome happy new year, fine friends! since my 2023 recap was so comprehensive, this email can solely be about the 8 days i just spent in italy! i had a great solo trip, and i highly recommend italy for the sights, the food, and the concerts. as usual, it took an awful lot of time to get the 1,277 photos on the facebook and to caption them, so please go look at those. day 1: wednesday, january 3rd: rome the less said about the journey to and fro jfk, the better. i arrived in italy a little before 10am, and was at my airbnb by 11:30am, which is a testament to how efficiently the fco airport is run. i took the 32 minute, 14 euro train from the airport to roma termini, which was a 15 minute walk from where i staying. i found a great room in an apartment for only $53/night. it was small, but had its own bathroom and fast wi fi. my host, who met met outside, was nice enough to let me drop off my bags early, so i was ready to explore and out the door before noon. i had gotten a folding rome paper map on ebay and circled everywhere i wanted to get to. using that and googlemaps at home, i created an itinerary to see things by their vicinity. however, i had figured i wouldn’t start out till closer to 1 or 2, so i ended up squeezing in a bunch of things on wednesday that were on later days because, as i always say: why put off till tomorrow what you can do today? rome does have a subway and bus system, but i never used them since i was centrally located   an hour walk from everything i wanted to see at most. i won’t bury the lede   according to my iphone, i walked on average 29,839 steps a day! no wonder my feet hurt so much! i mostly had a plan of attack, but i also went on tangents following different roads when i saw architecture i wanted to get a photo of. a lot of the piazzas ran together, but i’m glad i saw as many as i did. here’s where i went to on wednesday: museo boncompagni ludovisi   i was passing a free museum, and i can never pass those up! i believe this is one of those “rich people decided to donate their collection so people could see it after they die” type places, and there was an exhibit called “fifties in rome” featuring the fashion of the day, amongst other interesting art pieces. spanish steps   i ended up coming out at the top of the steps, and went into the big church there. then i walked down, and there was a really big xmas tree (from dior), ala 30 rock, and when i returned to the steps a few days later, it was all gone, so it’s good i managed to see it all before. in general, the first few days were a bit crowded. i imagine that it would’ve been worse in the summer, but apparently italy schools were off the first week of the year, so there were a lot of domestic tourists in the major areas. barcaccia gelateria   i had different gelato flavors every day starting with milk chocolate and pistachio. i didn’t have bad gelato all trip, and it was always incredibly (and ridiculously) cheap. definitely one of the perks of italy! pedro sandoval art exhibit   another free stop   some interesting musical instrument sculptures   it was a very small gallery. piazza del popolo   this was my favorite piazzas because it was so wide open and had cool things to see on all four sides. there was an obelisk in the center and some interesting sculptures. i rested for a bit on some steps listening to some live music because i was a bit tired having stayed up so long. piazza colonna   there was a tall structure in this piazza too, but there wasn’t anywhere to just chill. largo argentina   at this really cool ruin, there is a cat sanctuary where they currently have 86 cats they are taking care of! they let you go in, and it’s basically a free cat cafe. campo de fiori   this wide open space had a lot of vendors on wednesday selling things, ala a flea market, and a statue in the middle. piazza navona   another huge area of town, on the day i was there, there was a carnival type thing happening   a carousel and so throngs of people, but when i passed through the next week, it was much calmer. very trendy area for restaurants. really, i passed so many different places and interesting buildings including many churches, and will have to refer you to my own photos for the complete (pun intended) picture. i highly recommend them because i’m biased and i took them, but to give you more incentive, i continued my “seth takes a selfie with a statue and tries to recreate it” series, which my friend ilene says is not to be missed! (i’m paraphrasing.) trevi fountain   this is the most iconic rome location, and it was so crowded in the afternoon that i could barely get a photo. absolutely gorgeous though! porta pia   this is a giant arch, which was right by my airbnb. pizzeria al forno della soffitta   for my first dinner, i ate across the street from where i was staying for convenience. i started with a fried bread, piazza appetizer then had traditional italian eggplant parmesan, and i’m drooling just going through the pictures. i was incredibly tired, having stayed up over 24 hours, and i went to bed around 8pm because i couldn’t stay up any longer. day 2: thursday, january 4th: rome thursday said that it might rain, but since i brought my umbrella along with me, it turned into the most beautiful day ever. i started by having a quick breakfast at mammarella cafe bistrot which was next door to my place. i had eggs, toast and bacon with delicious fresh squeezed oj because i woke up famished, and i figured it would good to have a big breakfast given how much walking i would do that day (and i was right). i went to a lot of places on thursday: trevi fountain   in the morning it was way calmer and i was able to throw a coin into the fountain! pantheon   i was told to get all my tickets in advanced to skip the line, and this was the right decision. some of these lines were out of control! the pantheon ticket was for 11am, but they still let me in at 10, which is different from every other place i tried to enter early. the pantheon is a really big church type thing, and was definitely worth seeing. i won’t bother going into historical things, because i didn’t really pay attention to those, especially since i was so jet lagged the first few days. if you’d like more information on some of these places, i highly recommended google. piazza della minerva   i took a really cute photo with an elephant statue! piazza venezia   this was a huge intersection. vittorio emanuele ii monument   i climbed up the stairs all the way, and got a great view. this monument was pretty, apologies, monumental. you had to pay to go all the way up in an elevator and to see an exhibit about the statue, but if you don’t care about views (which i don’t ever pay for on principle) or history (which i could really do without), then you can totally walk around everywhere else up there. capitoline hill   i walked up the hill, saw the capitoline wolf statue (which i got a mini version of for 2 euro for my piano), got a picture with the outside of the roman forum and headed to the colosseum. on my way, these men kept trying to talk to me   saying i had “nice shoes” which was the dumbest thing i’ve ever heard b/c they were falling apart sneakers! this was the only time i actually saw crime trying to happen, though i’m not sure what their game plan was trying to ask people where they were from, etc… i had been warned about pickpockets, but i didn’t see anything close to that happening, and felt completely safe the whole trip   besides being a bit faclempt in the most crowded tourist areas, where i did make sure to hold onto my phone and cover my wallet very tightly. arch of constantine   anyway, the colosseum would not let me in early, so i ended up with an hour to kill. oops! i took a picture with this arch, then i walked down the street to circus massimo and sat for a bit. colosseum   this is a gorgeous place! i highly recommend getting the skip the line tickets in advance, even if it means you are stuck waiting outside for an hour. i did the basic areas   my cousin had recommended the basement, but that was a separate, more expensive tour. but i did try to take pictures of it from the first level. i marveled in this marvel! roman forum & palatine hill   the ticket for the colosseum includes these must see places. i walked around them for hours, and it was really cool thinking about how long those structures have been around. in the roman forum, i saw where the vestal virgins lived, and also saw where julius caesar’s ashes are buried! gelateria artigianale di eccellenza   i was starving, so i decided to eat dessert first, and today’s flavors were chocolate chip, mango and cheesecake (which might’ve been my favorite flavor of the week!) santa maria in aracoeli   i went up a lot of stairs to see the inside of yet another church… capitoline museum   this museum was pretty good. it was one of those   you can only go up and down in certain areas, so it took a bit to make sure i had visited every section. the actual capitoline wolf was in here, a gold statue of david, and they had a special exhibit on the hundreds of jews who were taken from rome in 1943 to the concentration camps, and the 2 who survived. taverna boccaccio   i decided to walk away from the touristy areas, and was exploring the tiny little streets off the main roads, and found this cute restaurant that was a trip advisor pic. i had the most amazing fettuccini alfredo. piazza della repubblica   i walked home past all the lights in this piazza, which i would actually end up walking through a lot when i started going to the concerts at st. paul’s nightly. day 3: friday, january 5th: florence on friday, i woke up and went straight to roma termini where i got on a high speed train to florence. italy has a great high speed train system, and by buying the tickets a few months in advance, i got pretty decent fares. i did find it really exhausting trying to figure out all the timing for the day so far removed from the trip, but i’m happy to say i mostly succeeded in my guesstimations! roma termini is pretty huge, and i was warned of people stealing bags, so i was extra cautious. there was a big board and using the train number on my ticket, i was easily able to figure out which track to go to. i was pleasantly surprised to find that the train had decent wi fi and they gave out snacks and water, but i mostly spent the ride reading. florence is adorable, and very easy to navigate since all roads either lead to the duomo or the river, and it’s also helpful the landmarks are super tall and often visible. the phone said it was going to rain in the afternoon and night, so i wisely decided to run around like a madman seeing all the outside stuff before the precipitation. so, i went and took photos of santa maria novella, the duomo aka florence cathedral, basilica di santa croce di firenze, and palazzo vecchio. i didn’t go inside anything because there were such long queues, and i really wanted to get to the synagogue/jewish museum by 3pm before it closed for shabbat. before i got to the museum, i was a bit hungry, so i grabbed a quick cheese sandwich at caffe pasticceria. the florence synagogue is absolutely beautiful. it has a moorish design with an italian dome. a guy called david levi bequeathed most of his inheritance to its creation in 1874. the first rabbi in the 1880s was samuel hirsch margulies   so maybe he was a distant cousin. the museum is in the synagogue itself, and only had a few rooms. but just going into the synagogue itself was worth the tiny admission fee. absolutely beautiful! after i stopped by my airbnb to meet my host for the night and her friendly cat. then i headed to the galleria dell’accademia di firenze to see michelangelo’s statue david. this was one of the only places i hadn’t pre bought the ticket, and i deeply regret it. i stood in the freezing rain on the non reservation line for about an hour, which is longer than i spent in the museum itself! if i had realized that the queue would be decimated closer to closing time (7pm), i would’ve shown up later. seeing david in person was cool, though. there wasn’t much else of note in the museum, though there was a tiny musical instruments section. i went to dinner at buca niccolini because they advertised a 20 euro florentine steak, which seemed like something i should try while in florence. it was delicious! unfortunately, the restaurant had wi fi that made you verify your phone number or social media or email, and since i didn’t have wi fi i couldn’t access any of those. this is a huge pet peeve of mine. if you have access to data on your phone, you do not need wi fi! anyway, i ended up talking to 2 really nice sisters from america who were sitting at the adjacent for awhile till i was kicked out since they had reservations to fulfill. it was nice to meet some americans, though neither added me on social media… ah, well… i went to amorino right off the main square for my daily gelato, which was organic lemon sorbet, organic chocolate and wild berries. thankfully, it stopped raining, so i was able to stroll around in this charming city after dark. i came across a warthog that people were putting money in for luck, but it was a long queue and i didn’t feel like wasting more coins. i crossed the river and went to a classical opera concert at the church of santa monica. it said it was an italian opera concert, bu they featured some non italian composers like mozart. the concert consisted of a soprano and a baritone doing mostly arias, plus a pianist who also played 2 solos (schubert and chopin   also not italian!). i was happy there was one puccini. afterwards, i walked home, and it was totally alive and happening! i was so tired that i fell asleep very quickly. day 4: saturday, january 6th: pisa when you are taking a local train, you have to check your ticket in after midnight. while doing this, i realized i could move my train back, and since i wanted to sleep in, and also at this point realized that i wouldn’t be able to get into places earlier than my ticket said, but could get there a bit late without any issues, i happily decided to not set an alarm and move my train to pisa to 12:28 from 11. this also gave me enough time to go to the piazzale michelangelo, which was also on the other side of the river. first i briefly stopped by the giardino dell rose, but it was raining, so i didn’t linger and kept going towards the piazzale. it was definitely worth it to go for the view but neither google nor the signs pointing out where to go made it clear just how far up it is. of course, it makes sense it would be high since it was billed as the best view of florence, but it was quite a hike up, up, and more up. after taking some picturesque pictures, i hustled to the train station to make my train to pisa. there was an old car festival going on by the basicalia de maria novella, which is funny because i seem to run into these sorts of things often around the world, the last time being in madison, wi. pisa is pretty dull. i’m not going to lie! and it was raining still, so that put a damper on the day. i followed signs to the tower of pisa, which was about a half hour from the train. the entire town was pretty much closed, which could be because it was a saturday. when i got to the tower, i realized that i had to check my bag, so i ended up even later for my time slot, but they didn’t care. the tower has 296 steps, and i walked up them glad to not slip because they were super wet since it was raining. i spent some time at the top taking photos, trying to make the photos make it clear there was a slant. when i came down i did my social media lauded photoshoot with the tower of pisa. thankfully, the rain ebbed a bit, and i was able to have fun for about 15 minutes trying to come up with interesting and funny shots! i admit i had a really great time doing this, and even though pisa has nothing else going for it, i’ve heard about this leaning tower my entire life, and i was super happy to be there. i went into the cathedral, which wasn’t that exciting and sat for a bit out of the rain, and then i found wi fi at the visitor’s center. given my train back wasn’t till 7, i had a bunch of time to kill anyway, so i figured i should get my photoshoot up before people in the usa were awake, so they had something fun to wake up to. there were no restaurants open on my walk, so i figured i had better eat right in the area of the tower. i found a tripadvisor approved restaurant called ristoro pecorino where i had minestrone soup and the best lasagna ever. finally, after dinner i went to get gelato from a small cafe that was still open. the flavors of the day for me were melon and cookies. unfortunately, my train was delayed by 45 minutes, so i had to sit in the icky pisa train station for almost 2 hours since i had gotten there early. so i didn’t get home till 11pm. the only good news with the train being delayed so much is that i’m getting a 25% refund since it was over a half hour late. traveling in europe is much nicer than traveling in america sometimes! (most times…) day 5: sunday, january 7th: pompeii, naples i woke up early on sunday to take my 9am train to pompei/pompeii. pompei is the city; pompeii is the lost civilization that was buried in lava. unfortunately, my good weather luck disappeared on sunday, and it was pouring for most of the day. the good news is that most places in italy are free on the first sunday of the month, so at least i didn’t have to pay to enter. pompeii is pretty spread out, as it was a full city. i usually try to meticulously check off where i’ve been when i go somewhere, but unfortunately, my paper map was decimated by the rain. in fact, everything i brought that day ended up soaked, including myself. luckily, i had an umbrella, but there’s only so much one can do. anyway, i’m not going to be able to give you a huge detailed recap of pompeii, which is fine, b/c you can always google it. i did walk around, and i saw many houses. a lot of them had exits that came out somewhere else, so that made it even harder to navigate in the rain. there were also puddles and lots of roped off corridors due to the inclement weather. they had rocks that were in the roads, so you could step on those instead of stepping into the puddles. it kind of was like that game my nephew and niece play   “the floor is lava”   although it was water, not lava   even though, ironically, lava was once where the water was. often there would be signs that the original tapestries or whatever were in the naples archaeological museum, which was probably because of weather issues. in addition to many casas that we could visit, there was a forum, and some theaters, and a mini colloseum where pink floyd played, and there was a few people encased in lava in the garden of fugitives. after the rain let up, i met a few stray cats, including a tuxedo one that was incredibly vocal. we had a long conversation in meow, and i was happy to get to know them. my original plan was to try to get to a second archaeologically preserved city herculaneum which had been recommended by 2 friends. it was also free on that sunday, so it would’ve been lovely to squeeze it in. unfortunately, with the rain, i kept having to take refuges wherever i could, and since i couldn’t optimize what i was seeing, kept slipping on the cobblestones, and had to worry about keeping track of my phone and umbrella when i was taking photos, etc, i just lost about an hour. i also didn’t realize until i left the park that there was a subway type train that connects pompei to naples that stopped right in erculaneum! had i known that, i might’ve tried harder, but as it was, i went at a leisurely pace and then retraced everything, and each time i did, i noticed something i had completely missed the first time. if i had a tardis, i would consider telling myself a more efficient way to get through pompeii, but i don’t, so it is what it is. regardless, i happily stumbled upon the mini train station and realized i could go directly to naples on that train for only 3.50 euros! naples was chaotic and loud. it felt exactly like i was in “my brilliant friend” and the drivers reminded me of boston. i got off at the final stop, but i should’ve gotten off at garibaldi which is the main station. thankfully, i was able to walk there pretty quickly. it took me awhile to finally realize that napoli centrale was in yet a different building. it was like having the lirr, subway, amtrak, and nj transit all very close, but not in the same exact area. once i figured out where my train home was leaving from i embarked to get the best pizza in the world! celia had recommended l’antica pizzeria da michele, which is where julia roberts eats in “eat, pray, love” and it was the best pizza i have ever had, hands down. and the cheapest! i’m salivating just looking at my photo of it. after dinner, i stopped by a gelato place that was on the 10 minute walk back to the train station, il gelagao mennella, and my flavors for the night were cookies and cream, almond and orange, and stracciatella. again i had overestimated how much time i would need, so i waited an hour in the chaotic station, finally boarded my on time train, and then got home. day 6: monday, january 8th: rome i slept in monday because i was very tired. i finally left around 11 and started my walk towards the jewish quarter. thankfully for the rest of my trip i had beautiful weather after sunday’s massive storms. on the way, i passed the glorious piazza del quirinale and passed by the area with the colosseum again. this time, it was far less crowded so i was able to take more photos of the opposite side of the street with foro di traiano. first up in the jewish quarters were the remains of the teatro di marcello and il portico di ottavia. next i went to the free fondazione museo della shoah roma aka the rome holocaust museum. it was pretty small, and honestly, having been to the concentration camps they were talking about, i didn’t feel the need to linger too long. i was told that there would be a rome synagogue tour at 1:15pm through the jewish museum, so i took some time to walk around a bit in the jewish ghetto seeing the kosher restaurants and the hebrew school. i’m not sure what a kosher pizza parlor would imply besides the fact there wouldn’t be any meat since pizza is heavily dairy, but i didn’t feel the need to find out… the rome synagogue was not as beautiful as the florence one and looked far more like a church than a temple. it did have a square dome, which is unusual. this synagogue was built in the jewish ghetto when jews were all forced to live in this one area of town. they had to combine 5 synagogues into this one. the jewish ghetto existed from 1555 to 1870, and then all of rome’s jews were taken to be murdered in 1943, and only 2 survived. in 1986, palestinians attacked the temple, murdering a 2 year old, so nowadays the whole area has police guard 24/7. in 1986, the pope came to speak at the temple and called the jewish people “elder brothers” to catholics, which makes him a mensch! today there are 35k jews in italy. there was an influx in the 1400s as jews were kicked out of spain, and then again in the 1960s when they were kicked out of libya. the museum itself was pretty comprehensive about jews in italy, which is something i didn’t really know about. it also had a lot of antique jewish tapestries and artifacts, as well as an exhibit of modern israeli painters. afterwards, i walked down passed circus massimo again, which is a huge strip of a park where they’ve shot some major films. i went to see the baths of caracella, but they were closed on monday so i could only get a few exterior photos. next, i went on a winding path to try to find the lavernale door. as i was going to give up, i noticed a queue with a musician strumming and realized that was exactly what i was looking for. it is literally a door, and you peep through the keyhole, and the vatican is framed between 2 bushes. it’s really quite cool, and i’m glad that i managed to find it! i had heard that the trastevere neighborhood had some trendy restaurants, so i crossed over the tiber river to find some grub. i ended up at this great restaurant rione 13 where i had breaded veal and delicious cheesy zucchini flowers (“fiori di zucca”). i crossed back for my concert and stopped off at the gelatist for my daily gelato; this time i had kinder cereali and snickers as my flavors. i ended the night at st. paul’s within the walls, which is a church that rents out its space to weekly concerts. every monday a string quartet plays some bach and vivaldi’s the 4 seasons. they sounded exquisite, and the acoustics in the church were great. what a fantastic way to end a day! day 7: tuesday, january 9th: vatican city tuesday i tried to get up and go, and had moderate success. i walked an hour to vatican city. the first thing i did was to mark my 31st country in the been app! woohoo! i took a few pictures of the castel sant’angelo then headed over to st. peter’s square and st. peter’s basilica. thankfully this was an off peak season, so there wasn’t much of a queue through security for the basilica. it was crowded, but not mobbed, so i was able to see michelangelo’s pieta pretty easily and then was able to walk around and admire the huge structure and fancy designs. i also went down to the basement to see the former popes’ crypts, though i opted not to go to to the top of the dome since it cost money (and as i’ve said, i have a principle against paying for views). after i made sure to see every nook and cranny, i left and headed over to the vatican museums, which included the sistine chapel. i didn’t realize that the chapel was actually inside the museum, but it makes sense b/c the tickets were a combined ticket. i was told to get skip the line tickets, so i did. my time was 12:30pm, but i was there around noon, and they wouldn’t let me in early so i mulled about for a half hour. this is the problem with having to time things out, but i was going to get an earlier time and they were taken, so it quite worked out. i don’t think there’s any way i would’ve made it much earlier by that point of the trip. you can notice how my days get progressively later as the week goes on and i adjusted to the time zone… the vatican museums are absolutely gigantic. i was trying to figure out the most efficient route to the sistine chapel, but i needn’t have bothered because that section is completely cordoned off with ropes, such that you can only go one way. and if you skip anything, you’d have to go back to the beginning, so i decided to practice this virtue i rarely use called patience, and i went through all the galleries along the route. i’m quite glad i did because i stumbled upon a van gogh painting in one of the rooms (one of his pieta)! indeed, i found a whole contemporary art section, though they defined contemporary as after 1900… but they had some gaughin and chagall and even a few dali! besides those rooms, it was a lot of sculpted statues and tapestries. the sistine chapel was way larger than i had thought. they do not let you take photos in there, so if you want to see it, you will have to make the trip yourself. the entire room from walls to ceiling is plastered with intricate drawings and i spent 20 minutes or so moving around to different spots to sit and stare. (i also really needed to sit at this point in the trip because my feet were killing me.) when i got done with that section of the museum, i realized there were a few other sections! in one i found lapidario ebraico which were jewish epigraphs from tombstones in the 3rd and 4th centuries shortly after all jews were expel from israel. it was crazy to see etched menorahs on these ancient headstones. there was also an italian stamp room, and a section of around the world art, much like you find in lots of museums. i also found a room of paintings which had one by leonardo da vinci. anyway, once i was 100% sure i had seen every single room (this time my map wasn’t rained on), i departed the museum for the old bridge gelateria, which was listed as one of the best gelato in the world. it was good, but i didn’t think it was any better or worse than the rest of the gelato i had all trip! anyway, this time i had profumo di sicilia, zuppa, and blueberry. i headed over to the piazza cavour, which was a really cute little park, and i just sat for a bit watching the sun go down because i was sick of walking and not in a hurry since my concert that night wasn’t till 8:30pm. i decided to go back around piazza navona where the trendy restaurants are and i ended up choosing cybo which was a hip wine bar and restaurant. i had amazing rigatoni with artichokes and then some broccoli on the side which i mushed into my meal. yum! finally, since i was a bit early, i took a detour before going to the concert to see the actual opera house, teatro dell’opera di roma. sadly, they were still off for winter break, but my concert that night was verdi’s opera la traviata again at st. paul’s within the walls. the concert was really bare bones, but the singers, especially the lead were top notch. it was kind of hard to see, and weird to see opera without subtitles, but since i already knew the story, i could follow it well enough. the small orchestra sounded amazing, and it was great to see an italian opera in italy! day 8: wednesday, january 10th: rome on my final day of vacation, i slept as late as possible because i knew i would have to acclimate back to nyc time soon. my agenda was very light because i have learned to not plan too much on the final day of a trip. i went to villa borghese, which is basically central park with lots of trees, grass, benches, and musicians playing. i was going to start with the borghese gallery and museum but it was filled till 1pm. however, that was fine because it allowed me to see the park first while it was sunny and warm, taking photos of the fountains, statues and the globe theater. i also got a quick slice of pizza by piazza del popolo, which i was glad to revisit one more time. the galleries in the museum were fine. lots of old stuff by people like peter paul rubens, caravaggio and rafaello. i was out within an hour because it was pretty small. i thought their system for bag check was cool   they scanned your ticket, and then this conveyer belt brought the bag around to be picked up. by the way, in case you missed it, i saw art by michelangelo, leonardo and rafaello… meaning the only ninja turtle i missed was donatello! cowabunga! after the museum, i sat in the park and read/wrote till i got cold. then, i actually took an hour to go home and just kind of chill because i found i had finished my itinerary completely! i found a restaurant on my way back to st. paul’s for my final concert   forno a legna   it was very inexpensive (and they only charged 1 euro for water instead of 2 or 3) so i was able to get spaghettini as an appetizer and then gnocchi for my final meal. my final concert was the three tenors, and it was a first act of arias and a second act of neapolitan songs. i was very happy that there were 2 puccini arias including my favorite nessun dorma, plus some donizetti, leoncavallo, verdi and massenet. they also sang “time to say goodbye” and ended with “o sole mio” which to americans is “it’s now or never” (which incidentally was the encore for the first concert i saw in florence, so the entire trip came full circle). on my way home, i finally tried the gelateria la romana, which was on my corner. my final flavors were arancia rossa (blood orange), croccante della nonna, and pesto di pistachio (going back to pistachio, again brings the trip full circle). it was delicious. at the end of this night, i only had 1 euro and 30 cents left, which is really good guesstimating on my part! i had taken out 400 euros at the start of the trip, which is 50/day, and i was spot on with my estimate. it definitely helped that all my train travel and a lot of my activities were pre paid. given that i get a foreign transaction fee every time i use my credit card in another country, i figured cash would be better, and it was. there was a 3% fee and a $3 non td bank atm fee, but i think that $16 was much less than the credit card fees would’ve been. it also helps that i can do math, so by the last 2 days, i was very cognizant about which meals to order and whether or not they were going to charge me for water (which all restaurants but one did). however, by the end of the trip, i had stopped tipping because i was told that locals do not do that, especially when there are other fees that have been added to the bill. anyway, that whole paragraph is a huge humble brag, though, maybe it’s not that humble. regardless, i went to bed, and then i flew out the next day on thursday, january 11th, and had no problem getting to my flight on time, zooming through security and immigration. again, nothing good can be said about jfk, so i will say i eventually made it home and joni was so thrilled to see that i was back! vacation book and podcast i managed to read a book on vacation with all the trains i took, especially since not all of them had wi fi. the book i picked for vacation was: eleanor oliphant is completely fine   we have a place in our lounge where people can leave books they are done with, and this one was there, and it was a reese witherspoon pick, so i thought it’d be cute for a trip, and i was right. quirky and charming, with a few twists, i enjoyed this book and it was nice light fare for vacation. while walking i caught up on some episodes of “conan o’brien needs a friend” including patrick stewart, harrison ford, clare danes, and the wonderful president joe biden. movies on the plane i watched 4 movies on the way to rome, and 5 on the way back: barbie   this was a cute movie, though i don’t really quite get the hype. i prefer green to pink! my big fat greek wedding 3   while not as funny as the first one, it was still pretty funny.the persian version   i saw a preview for this movie, and was happy to check it out. i quite enjoyed this movie about an iranian lesbian who accidentally gets knocked up on the one night she has sex with a male drag queen, which is based on the director/writer’s own life! highly recommended! you hurt my feelings   i thought this movie starring julia louis dreyfus was really quite good, as well.joy ride   this movie about an asian roadtrip to china was pretty raunchy, which is my kind of humor, so i very much enjoyed it! past lives   this movie was half in korean and was touching, though a bit slow. real women have curves   this was an hbo movie from 2002 starring america ferrara which i’d never seen, also based on the director/writer’s true live story. incidentally, these 7 movies all have one thing in common   they were all written and directed by women, most of them both written and directed by the same one! blackberry   this movie about the history and scandal of the making of the blackberries was pretty good, but i’m very happy to never have owned one. labyrinth   i mean, you can’t go wrong with jim henson! with less than 2 hours to go, i squeezed this movie in, and it finished right as we landed   i knew to account for losing minutes due to plane announcements both in english and then italian… conclusions i loved this trip! i feel like there’s still more to see in rome, but i’ve done a good chunk of the main area now. i would love to get to venice at some point, and perhaps sicily (which are of course on opposite sides of the country), but for now, i feel really great having taken a week off the grid away from the world’s chaos. i’m refreshed, which is good, because as y’all will remember from my last email, it’s going to be a busy 2024. oh, one more announcement for those who actually make it to the ends of my emails   the love quirks college debut is almost confirmed   if you missed the show, and would like to see a college production of it this april, please ask me for details, which will be announced shortly on lq’s social media! i hope your years have gotten off to a great start, and, as always, please respond to let me know what you are up to! always, seth june june 20th, 2024   country roads take me to an overdue update it’s been 5 very busy months since my last update, and i finally cleared a day to catch you up on my 2024 so far! four major projects 1. malka we begin filming on “malka” on monday, which is nuts. this project inspired by my grandmother has been over a decade in the making, and it’s truly amazing that this is finally happening! for those of you who follow the project or my social media, you should already know that legendary broadway/tv actress tovah feldshuh, who has 4 tony & 2 emmy nominations is playing my grandmother. we love working with tovah so much, and she is elevating this project to a new level. we all truly believe in this short film musical, and i cannot wait for the world to see it! we are shooting for 3 days next week, and it promises to be incredible (and exhausting). thank you again to everyone who backed this project and believed in this story and in me. 2. love quirks love quirks had its college premiere at hofstra university in april, and it was incredible! it was like watching your child graduating into the real world. the student production was wonderful. it was completely sold out, and not only got a standing ovation at the end, but the show was stopped multiple times because of uproarious laughter and applause. brian and i had the privilege to go opening night, and we did a talkback q&a afterwards. everyone involved in the college production has fallen in love with the show, and hopefully that love gets spread to other colleges next year! in other love quirks news, we are currently working on bringing the show to london in the spring for a 4 week run off west end. i will have more information about this soon, but if you have been planning to go to london at some point, this gives you a great excuse! i will be moving to london for the whole run, and intend to see more of the uk including isle of man, plus i’d like to see belfast in northern ireland, and of course, harry potter studios. cheerio! 3. the diamond as big as the ritz i’m so excited to announce that the diamond as big as the ritz is having its world premiere production in nyc this september. based on f. scott’s fitzgerald’s 1922 satirical novella, we last presented the show as a 2 day reading in 2018. the show will run midtown for 3 weeks at the american actors theater, running mostly thursday through sunday, september 12th 29th. if you were planning on coming to the city, this would be a great time to visit! 4. agatha christie’s the secret adversary we had a phenomenal first reading of our new musical agatha christie’s the secret adversary in april with a wonderful cast of broadway performers. we garnered so much great feedback for the show, and are excited about its future. the next step is to produce a demo album, which we are tentatively scheduled to do this fall. this is a hilarious, mystery musical romantic comedy, and we think it will have a wonderful life, just like jimmy stewart. book signing event i’m happy to announce that i will be doing a book signing event for my 4th book “the making of a musical: the 12 year journey of love quirks” at the iconic drama book shop on tuesday, september 3rd at 7:30pm. the event will be moderated by, none other than, brian childers, the original director of the show! this should be a super fun evening, and i hope you can make it if you are in the city! drama book shop events life is a cabaret, old chum if that wasn’t enough, i hit 800 weekly cabaret showcases in april, as well. i produced 2 concerts of my songs to celebrate this gigantic milestone. i’ve had a tremendous turnout for showcases over the past few years, and i’m doing 1 2/week for the rest of the summer. by the end of september, i will be at #830! in addition to my regular series, i have been doing a lot more co producing lately where i delegate out a lot of the work. we have our 2nd muppet cabaret tonight (june 20th), which i’m super excited for. i’m doing an ernie number and (duh) miss piggy’s song from “the muppet movie”. i have another few co productions coming up in september, including my frequent videographer, amy’s show called “the friends i’ve filmed along the way” which should be a super fun time. i just finished calling my 66th performer for summer, and i’m happy to say i’m solidly booked with extremely talented singers! oh, other performance based things that happened this spring: accompanying “fabulous fanny brice” in basking ridge, nj on mother’s day, and composing a minute score to a klingon opera in a minute play festival in may. crossing words i’m thrilled to announce that my second published new york times crossword will be out this tuesday, june 25th! it’s a collaboration with the wonderful jeff chen, who has had 153 other puzzles in the paper. he also has a great daily world game, and if you enjoy wordle and connections, you should try it at imsqueezy.com ! i’m even more thrilled to say that jeff and i had another puzzle accepted by the nyt, which will make my 3rd   and 11 total puzzles so far   if you include one that should be in the la times at some point this summer (they only let us know 2 weeks in advance). i’ve been fairly busy with, you know, the four major projects listed above, so this might be it for me puzzle wise for a bit, but i’m sure i will have energy to write puzzles again eventually! country roads aka west virginia, state 47 with my mother in ireland for 2 weeks, my father volunteered to drive me down to west virginia aka my 47th state. we went down the wednesday before memorial day weekend to avoid holiday traffic. on wednesday, we stopped halfway to go to the nemours estate in wilmington, delaware. this estate was owned by the dupont’s, and was quite glamorous. we took a shuttle around the gardens, saw the old automobiles in the garage, then walked around the mansion, which included a bowling alley in the basement. upon arriving in west virginia, wednesday night, we took a picture with the welcome sign, then headed to our hotel. we had surprisingly decent italian food that night at la mezzaluna cafe. thursday, we went into charles town, where we were staying, and went to the the jefferson county museum in the basement of the charles town library. it was there we learned such interesting things as charles town was named after george washington’s younger brother. we also started hearing about john brown who was an abolitionist who started the ball rolling on abolishing slavery in the south. afterwards, we went across the street to the fuzzy dog books & music store, which had a lot of used books. i got 3 including an obscure play by f. scott fitzgerald called “the vegetable”. next up, we went to harpers ferry national park, which was both beautiful and interesting. my father has a lifetime senior pass to all the national parks, so it was completely free! harpers ferry has a main street of stores that were kept historically intact. one of them was frankel brows., le vitoch & hirsch hats and caps. always good to see our relatives having great success! we listened to a park ranger talk about john brown and the fort where he held up trying to start an insurrection for a half hour, and then i walked the bridge that spans from west virginia to maryland with a view of virginia. thus, i was basically in 3 states at the same time! we went to the john brown museum, then i hiked upwards to see jefferson rock and harper cemetery, while my father stayed on a bench in the shade. i walked a bit by the river, meandering with a family of geese and the cutest gosling for a bit, then we took the shuttle back up to the parking lot. for dinner thursday night, we went to the mountain view diner, being big diner fans; then we went to pikeside bowl, where i bowled 3 games for only $9! what a steal! i got 107, 117 and 100, which isn’t terrible, but not near my record of 167 which i got at the broadway bowling league party the week after it didn’t count at all… speaking of broadway bowling, my team came in third this season, which is the first time we’ve had a trophy since i joined the team years ago! friday, we got an early start to take advantage of the free breakfast at the hotel and get to shenandoah national park, which was also free with my father’s pass! we drove about 60% of the skyline drive, and saw a lot of overlooks… of the same greenery over and over. i mean, that’s really all i have to say. it was a lot of trees! i did hike the appalachian trail for about 3 minutes. it’s a 2000 mile footpath from maine to georgia, and anyone who would do that whole thing is nuts. 3 minutes was plenty for me! friday night, we drove to maryland and spent the night at my uncle alex’s lovely house. saturday, we drove up to my sister’s house to have dinner with her family. we played old grizzly bear, which was literally an old maid knock off, then shoot the poop. sunday, my director stacey came over with our director of photography to tour my parents’ house (where we are filming a chunk of “malka” next week), then i went to costco and shop rite and came back to the city for my memorial day bbq on monday (which was super fun!). so, west virginia was state 47. thank you to my father for taking me! for july 4th weekend, penny, mollie and i are heading to michigan which will be state 48. and then in august, niki and i are going to memphis, then arkansas (49) and finally oklahoma (state 50) where we are going to okmulgee’s invitational rodeo, which is the nation’s oldest african american rodeo! anyway, once i have been to all 50 states, i can start work on my 5th book: seth rates the states. rip joni kitty i really meant to send this ledger ages ago, but some unfortunate personal events, including the death of beloved joni a week after her third birthday, put me behind on productivity for awhile. please see her obituary, below: joni was the sweetest cat, and quite possibly, the sweetest soul i’ve ever known. i instantly fell in love with her the first night she was here when she jumped right on the bed and started rubbing her face all over me with gratefulness at adopting her. in the last few months, any time i would pick up my keys, she would run over because she knew i was about to leave. in fact, when i put on my shoes and socks, she would jump on me and meow in my face. it got to the point where i had to leave an extra 5 minutes early daily so that i could cuddle her. i would hold her and she would purr, and finally she would let me go, but i always wished i could’ve stayed longer. it became the best part of my day. in fact, i’ve never had such an affectionate cat; it was kind of like having a dog without having to pick up poop on the street! she was obsessed with paper bags, loving to be on top or inside them, eschewing any boxes we put out, though she was starting to use her new cat tree a little more regularly. she was also a big kneader and would often “make biscuits” on pillows, comforters, and my legs if i was lying down covered in a blanket. she would always come over and lay with me when i was reading, and she often took a nap right by my feet while i was working at my desk. over the last few weeks, she had started lying on my chest while i was watching tv, which made me so very happy. joni was a speed runner. you would think she was on one side of the apartment, but she was actually on the other even though you just saw her. being black, it was easy to think she was anywhere a black item was. she also loved jumping up on everything very quickly and out of nowhere, including my lap and my desk. however, she would always meow first to warn that she was coming up. indeed, she was so conscientious and also very patient. she never once woke me up, which is quite amazing given how often and how long i sleep. speaking of sleep, joni would often wake up from dreams, and start meowing wildly: “where am i? where am i?” before running over to say hi then going back to sleep. other quirky behaviors included not allowing me to hole punch sheet music for cabarets because she loved being on paper so much, covering up her half eaten food with anything she could find, sitting on the stove after every use (probably for the warmth), licking the crud on the stove, and hanging out on the lip of the bathtub between the shower curtain and its liner. she will be so incredibly missed, and i’m still absolutely devastated that she passed shortly after her 3rd birthday. she forever changed my life, and i will cherish her memory always. meet sweetums i was actually hoping to get the obituary out before i got a new cat, but it is what it is. not being able to live alone, i went down to best friends shelter in soho, and i was going to say, picked out a new cat, but really he picked me. sweetums is the friendliest cat i’ve ever met. he kept circling my feet at the shelter, then purred in my lap. he is a super cuddler who is full of love and a big galoot who has no control of his tail, his super sweet demeanor more than makes up for the knocked down items. he very clearly has the same coloring as the muppet sweetums, and also the same good natured, goofy personality, so i think it made sense to don him with that name. he has the highest pitch meow, which is quite adorable, and loves to spread out since he is a huge cat. he was also recently named pet of the week in my building, which is a huge, huge honor. sweetums has been a great comfort to me, and i’m happy to welcome him to the family! books i’ve been so busy, and it looks like i haven’t read many books this year (12…), but some of these are super long. and let’s remember in 2021, i read 60 books. i’m just busy, i swear, i still love reading! the storied life of a.j. firky   this book by gabrielle zevin was a bit saccharine, but was cute. yellowface by r.f. kuang is an absolutely fantastic comedic satire and i highly recommend it. the guest by emma cline was a bit meandering but had some funny moments. carrie soto is back by taylor jenkins reid is great, as are all of her books! the covenant of water by abraham verghese was a beautiful story, though quite long. the court of thorns and roses by sarah j. maas was basically “beauty and the beast” with faeries, but i hear the rest of the series gets better. wandering stars by tommy orange was a really sweet read just like his other book “there there”. come and get it by kiley reid was a really fun, funny read. demon copperhead by barbara kingsolver was a solid story but it was so long and took so long to read b/c of the small print, and then i wondered why it was so like “david copperfield” including the ending, and then i realized, “oh, it’s based on it” which explains why it’s so long. the heaven & earth grocery store by james mcbride was a solid tale, though it doesn’t have much of a plot, and was a bit redundant in parts (and was a bit redundant in parts). the bee sting by paul murray was a fantastic novel. just fantastic. i love all of paul’s books, and this one about a dysfunctional family did not disappoint. good material by dolly alderton is a really funny book so far   i’m about halfway through, but i’m enjoying it a lot. movies if you scroll down, you’ll see i have clearly been watching tons of theater instead of movies, but here are the few i’ve seen! poor things   emma stone earned her oscar in this movie! really weird, but wonderful. cabrini   my friend joe who is a jesuit invited me to this movie about a catholic saint, and it was surprisingly pretty good. ghostbusters: frozen empire   however, it wasn’t funny, so i had to hop into something more fun, which ghostbusters was! the holdovers   i actually watched this on peacock, but it was a really fantastic movie so i wanted to include it in the ledger. coup de grace   woody allen’s 50th and probably final film was fantastic. totally in french. such a great swan song, and a wonderfully enjoyable movie. television i was going to say there isn’t that much to watch these days, but i seem to have come up with a list. but everything is like 6 10 episodes, and some are mini series and some are canceled, so in today’s streaming landscape, i feel like you are always searching for something new. anyway, here are some shows i’ve liked recently. alice & jack   this bbc miniseries was on pbs, and it was completely unlike any rom com type miniseries i’ve seen, and i really loved it. shogun   this fx show is often in japanese, but is so beautifully written and filmed. elsbeth   this is a really fun show on cbs/paramount+ and if you want something really fun that doesn’t make you think, i recommend it   there are also many, many broadway guest stars! we were the lucky ones   this hulu miniseries is one of the best holocaust tv shows i’ve ever seen. it explored some things that even i didn’t realize happen, and it’s all based on a remarkable true story of a jewish family in poland that is followed from 1931 to the 1945. apples never fall   this is a rare tv show that was better than the book (by liane moriarty) with a fantastic cast including annette bening and alison brie. (on peacock) mrs. davis   this is another peacock recommendation   this is a mini series co creator by one of the lost co creators, and it’s crazy and wacky and super quirky. girls on the bus   this is a max show starring supergirl that sadly got canceled, but it was a really cute quirky dramedy about the press corps working a presidential campaign. dark matter   this apple+ show is very sci fi, and has multiple universes. it’s wonderfully written and acted, and this is a great show for anyone who likes this sort of genre. reginald the vampire   i caught up on this syfy show (also on peacock) which is definitely a guilty pleasure, but kind of has a bit of buffy ish vibes. my adventures with superman   this animated superman show on adult swim (or max) is a super fresh take on the man of steel and his friends! poker face   finally got around to watching this peacock comedy starring natasha lyonne and it totally deserves all its buzz. mr. & mrs. smith   this amazon prime show is a really good and unexpected take on this franchise written and starring danny glover. baby reindeer   this netflix show about a codependent relationship with one’s stalker is trippy and apparently based in reality… a gentleman in moscow   this showtime/paramount+ show starring ewan mcgregor is a really great russian drama. colin from accounts   this paramount+ show from bbc is really adorably funny, and recommended for those who like sitcomy shows. some other shows i’ve recommended in the past that are back (the first 2 sadly for their final seasons) are: evil, lazarus project, interview with a vampire, the boys and game of thrones: house of the dragon. theatre apparently i’ve seen a lot of theater this year so far. nabucco   wonderful production of this verdi opera at the met. our class   this was such a brilliant production with an innovative staging about 10 polish kids in the 30s and then it follows them till their in their 80s (the ones who survived at least). once upon a mattress   this thrilling encores production starring sutton foster and michael urie is transferring to broadway next fall. jonah   this was an intriguing play off broadway at roundabout. the connector   thoroughly enjoyed this new jason robert brown musical, and completely was unable to talk to scott bakula after, but got a selfie and an autograph. king lear   saw my friend eric in this solid shakespeare production off broadway at st. clement’s. prayer for the french republic   this was a masterpiece of a broadway play, and the 3 hours flew by. just spellbinding. oh, mary   really fun, campy play about mary todd lincoln, which is transferring to broadway this summer. the life and slimes of marc summers   how exciting to see the “double dare” host live, and watch people play “family feud” live. the apiary   second stage play off broadway about beekeepers that took an interesting turn. jelly’s last jam   this encores production was so wonderful, and it was lovely to see one of the few 90s musicals i hadn’t really known. sunset baby   this was a fantastic play at signature theatre.sign of the times   jukebox musical off broadway featuring love quirks’ own maggie mcdowell! enemy of the people   this ibsen play from ages ago still resonates very well, though having been to the ibsen museum in his apartment, i do know that he was really mostly a hypocrite in real life. the ally   thought provoking play starring josh radnor about a progressive jew trying to figure out what to do. lempicka   ambitious new musical about a fascinating bisexual artist from the 40s. stalker   this magic show didn’t really have that much i hadn’t seen before, though i don’t know how everything is done, but the ending was worth going for. broadway by the season 1931 32 & 1942 43   wonderful concert produced by scott siegel featuring broadway classics, as always. brooklyn laundry   funny and poignant play off broadway at mtc. indigo girls   got to see this iconic group that i didn’t really know that well interviewed at lincoln center, and was impressed by their lyrics. la forza del destino   this production of this verdi opera i didn’t know was phenomenal, and now i listen to the opera all the time. aftershocks   my bff rori nogee wrote and starred in this absolutely amazing play off off broadway, and i can’t wait to see where it goes next! orlando   sarah ruhl’s adaptation of this virginia woolf novel at signature off broadway. la rondine   i loved this puccini opera   why is this one not well known? what a fantastic masterpiece! patriots   wonderful play about how putin got his start with a fantastic performance by michael stuhlbarg. i heart rock and roll   broadway jukebox musical with songs by huey lewis. a little night music (theater2020)   great production of this sondheim classic starring my friends maria and matt in brooklyn heights. do re mi (j2 spotlight)   great production of this old jule styne musical that i hadn’t seen before. alice ripley (birdland)   alice ripley was in great form and sang all her hits! dungeons & dragons   the twenty sided tavern   this was a moderately interactive d&d game that is kind of a play? el nino   my friend and i went to see this john adams’ opera at the met thinking it was about a storm… nope, it was about boy named jesus… did i mention we’re both jewish? broadway by the season 1948 49 & 1954 55   another fantastic scott siegel evening! all of me   this play off broadway at the new group was unbelievable and so fresh and funny and authentic and i loved it. mother play   paula vogel’s new bio play featured 3 amazing performances from jessica lange, jim parsons and celia keenan bolger. this one made me cry. mary jane   rachel mcadams stars as a mother who has to take care of her son who has a lot of health issues. heartbreaking. tommy   my father and i went to see this revival after seeing the original 29 years ago. we enjoyed it! stereophonic   3.5 hour play about a band that is putting out various albums, and there are snitbits of songs, but it’s really just a very long play. the hours   speaking of long, this opera was also very long, but worth it to see kelli o’hara, renee fleming & joyce didonato sing a trio at the end. nobody cares   laura benanti’s one woman show was absolutely hilarious, and you can listen to it on audible! a beautiful noise   bill & hillary clinton were there with us singing along to “sweet caroline”. they never felt so good! three houses   i really enjoyed dave malloy’s new piece about 3 people who went a bit crazy during the pandemic living on their own. julia louis dreyfus   i went up to symphony space to see the unbelievable 11 time emmy winner interviewed on the happy sad confused podcast. what became of us   got to see rosalind chao who was keiko o’brien in this sweet play off broadway at atlantic theater company, and she was so nice after when i really could barely talk b/c this is how i get when i watched someone on star trek when i was growing up… breaking the story   interesting play at second stage off broadway taking a look at foreign photojournalists and what they go through. broadway by the season 1961 62 & 1966 67   and finally, the final siegel concert of the series, and this was really fun and featured my friend brian charles rooney who is my age but looks a decade young somehow! wow. well, i guess that’s part of the reason i saw so few movies and read so few books! conclusions okey dokey, there you have it. i hope you feel significantly caught up! please do send me a note to tell me how your 2024 is going so far. always, seth july july 14th, 2024   michigan: state 48 happy sunday funday! i debated whether to do a mini ledger with just michigan, or lumping it in with my next trip in august to my final 2 states (arkansas & oklahoma) but decided that most people would prefer 2 shorter emails than 1 longer one. so, here’s a short, separate recap of my visit to michigan! ﻿ day 1: wednesday, july 3rd, 2024: detroit ﻿ as those avid ledger readers will know, this summer i am finishing visiting the states. michigan is state #48 and the only state i had left that seemed to merit a week visit, so i scheduled it around independence day. the itinerary was fine tuned by some michigan natives i know, and penny & mollie decided to join for the trip! ﻿ we landed around 5pm on wednesday night, rented a really cute red kia, and then met up with my friend tracy and her friend tam for delicious dinner at la shish in dearborn by our airbnb where i had some delicious lamb shish. tam was kind enough to take us on a driving tour of detroit, bringing us to all the local spots we never would’ve known about including the heidelberg project, which is an outdoor art project, the exquisite houses of indian village, belle isle park for a wonderful sunset view of canada, insomnia cookies (since it was the only ice cream open), and the steps of the detroit institute of arts. (sadly, both dia and the motown museum were closed on the 4th, and also mondays/tuesdays so we couldn’t see either.) ﻿ day 2: thursday, july 4th, 2024: ford factory ﻿ we spent the first part of thursday at the ford factory, first the ford rouge factory tour where we saw where they make ford automobiles. there was a brief intro video, then a kind of disney style room where they make a virtual truck in front of you with smoke and strobe lights. then there was a room overlooking the whole complex, and then we went into where they actually make vehicles, but since it was a holiday, there wasn’t much action going on. finally, we took some photos with some completed cars and trucks, before taking the shuttle back to the main complex. ﻿ next up, we went to the henry ford museum of american innovation, which was an amazing museum with lots of different sections that we spent a good 3 hours in. penny and i made mold a rama trucks for $5, which were kind of kitschy, but nevertheless a really cute souvenir. ﻿ we explored the made in america display, then some old furniture, then the mathematica room, then a special exhibit with glass blown art, then the agriculture section where we saw a john deere tractor, an oscar mayer weiner car, and i got to pretend to drive a corn header. we went into the special exhibit dinosaurs in motion, where we got to maneuver some dinosaur puppets. and next up was the dymaxion house, which was a circular, insulated house that no one wanted to live in, but i thought it was really cool, and i totally would’ve. ﻿ getting hungry, we paused museum exploration to have lunch at lamy’s diner, which was so cheap compared to nyc diners! i had a chicken salad sandwich, potato soup and a yummy chocolate shake. after lunch, we visited the trains, getting to go on board a few, then the planes, and then… you guessed it: more automobiles, including ones owned or ridden by presidents. one of the cars they had was the one jfk was shot in. ﻿ one of my favorite spots was the room of miniatures which had many pop culture xmas ornaments from over the decades, including some “star trek” and snoopy and muppets, which of course made me super excited to see! ﻿ there was a section on power, which we kind of breezed through because of time, and then we made sure to go to the “with liberty and justice for all” historical section where we got to sit in the actual bus where rosa parks refused to give up her seat. i apparently sat right where rosa had sat, and penny sat where obama sat when he visited b/c he didn’t feel comfortable sitting where rosa sat… also in that section were the chair that lincoln was assassinated in, and a folding camp bed that george washington used in 1780. ﻿ finally, we went to the “your place in time” exhibit where we went through the decades seeing an old style moving picture, then teenage rooms for boomers, then gen x, which had stuff like an apple computer with the old style printer, a barbra streisand record, some “sesame street” stuff and then the game simon and a speak ’n spell. ﻿ having exhausted the museum, while exhausting ourselves, it was time to drive 4 hours north to mackinaw city for fireworks. we arrived in mc by 9pm (with fireworks starting at 10:20pm) so there was time to walk around the cute city, which had lots of cute shops. i found a cute little owl magnet with neon colors, and made that my magnet for michigan! ﻿ our airbnb was actually in alanson, which was about 25 minutes south of the city and was way more affordable than anything closer. even though there were no street lights, we managed to find it okay.﻿ ﻿ ﻿﻿﻿day 3: friday, july 5th, 2024: mackinac island ﻿ friday we took the ferry to mackinac island, which was a very touristy spot, but still quite nice. the ferry went under the mackinac bridge, which is a very long suspension bridge that connects michigan’s upper and lower peninsulas, between lakes michigan and huron. ﻿ the island was filled with a lot of tiny stores, and a lot of fudge. you could say it was pretty fudged up! i ended up getting just a tiny buckeye milk chocolate & peanut butter treat for $2.50, but it was really delicious. ﻿ mollie and i had lunch at the cute watercolor cafe. i had a salad and a smoothie trying to be healthy. after lunch, we decided to take the 8 mile walk around the island. it was idyllic, besides a quick rain shower. there were some beach areas and great views of the great lakes. rocks, tree, birds, etc. upon getting back to the main area of the island, penny and i went to chuckwagon for “the best burgers in town!” which probably means they were the only burgers. however, i did have a scrumptious peanut butter and jelly burger with fries. ﻿ after dinner, we played a round of mini golf, which was the first time i’ve played on a mini golf course where the surface was actual grass. it actually made it harder to get the ball to move, so we had to exert a harder hit than usual. the woman collecting money asked if we were a guest of the hotel and since it was $2 cheaper, we said yes, and even though she knew we were lying, she still gave us $2 off each, which i really appreciate. i won mini golf, which made me very happy because i like winning things. ﻿ then, mollie and i got moomers homemade ice cream to continue to make up for the fact i had eaten healthily in the afternoon. i had scoops of peanut butter oreo & mackinac fudge. (mollie ended up treating me to thank me for all the driving i did on the trip.) ﻿ we took the ferry back right around sunset, and then it was back to alanson for one more night of sleep in the area. ﻿ day 4: saturday, july 6th, 2024: traverse city ﻿ saturday we drove west to go to traverse city for the national cherry festival. ﻿ we didn’t realize we could find free street parking, so we parked in a garage, but since it was only $1.25/hour, it was not a big deal. talk about being out of nyc! ﻿ coincidentally, my friend jill and her husband gavan were also visiting michigan and planning to go to the festival that day, so we got to meet up with them for a few hours. i had an incredible cup of cherries for $5, and then gavan was really nice and got us all cherry pie, which was quite good. ﻿ unfortunately, the festival wasn’t really that exciting, nor that big. there weren’t many events happening, so when gavan suggested we go to sleeping bear dunes, which was only about a 40 minute drive away, we did. ﻿ before we left, though, we stopped by wilson antiques, which was a 4 level antique store… and i found a little section with collectibles and found a miss piggy nhl doll for only $6! also, i got a garfield pez for $3 and a little smurfette for $4. best ever $13 spent!! ﻿ anyway, sleeping bear had beautiful views of dunes, and a beautiful beach. definitely worth stopping by. ﻿ we went back to traverse city for dinner at seven monks where i had a healthy beet salad with grilled chicken. ﻿ then, we came upon a smokey bear hot air balloon where they were celebrating his 80th anniversary, and we got a lot of smokey bear swag because free stuff is the best stuff! ﻿ finally, while listening to a really good guitarist doing mostly covers, we found a spot by the lake to sit and then at 10:30pm we saw what were (thankfully) really great fireworks celebrating the end of the cherry festival. they even had firework cherries! ﻿ we stayed at a regular hotel in kalkaska. ﻿ day 5: sunday, july 7th, 2024: grand rapids/lansing ﻿ the hotel had breakfast included, and penny was nice enough to bring me some since i was not up before they closed at 10am. ﻿ we left a little after 11am (check out time) then drove back south to grand rapids, unsurprisingly hitting about a half hour of traffic. ﻿ the first stop was the gerald r. ford presidential museum, where we learned all about the 38th president who grew up in grand rapids, and his wife betty, very well known for her rehab clinics. i really enjoy these presidential museums   this is only the 2nd i’ve been to (the other being jimmy carter in ga) but i do hope to do more   i am going to the bill clinton one when i’m in little rock   one day i when i’m already renting a car, i want to stop by the fdr one which is about 100 minutes from the city… ﻿ anyway, these museums are very pro the president they are about, but from what i saw, i think ford seemed like a pretty decent man for a republican. he only became president b/c he was named vp after spiro agnew resigned. and then when nixon resigned, ford was the one who became president. he made tough decisions like pardoning nixon, and although he ran for reelection, he lost to jimmy carter. he had 2 assassination attempts on his life, both of whom: squeaky fromme and sarah jane moore became characters in sondheim’s musical “assassins”. they had a handwritten letter on display from sarah jane moore where she apologized for trying to shoot him. ﻿ there were replicas of the oval office and the situation room, and lots of memorabilia from gerry and betty’s lives. and finally, we stopped by their memorial outside. ﻿ the other grand rapids stop were the meijer gardens & sculpture park, which was $20 to visit. (the ford museum had been only $13, but $20 is nice b/c when you pay with cash you don’t need any change!) ﻿ the gardens were glorious and the sculpture park was also quite nice. the big thing they kept telling us to see was this giant horse statue   which i mean, a horse is a horse, of course, of course, but i didn’t find it too exciting… maybe if it had been horsing around a bit more instead of looking so serious… ﻿ anyway, there were some cute sculptures including one of bunny people, and we also walked through the japanese garden where we saw some coy koi and a non shellfish turtle (not selfish b/c he was out and about!). ﻿ unfortunately, the gardens closed at 5pm, so we didn’t get to the see the farm sculptures, or any of the inside exhibits, but it is what it is. ﻿ we drove an hour to lansing where we dropped mollie off at her friend’s house for the rest of the trip. penny and i continued onto the capitol building, then had delicious (and quite inexpensive) chicken pesto pizza at the cosmos (i also had a house salad), then incredibly cheap premium ice cream at bunker busters, which we had passed on the way to pizza. ﻿ finally, we drove 90 minutes back to detroit where we had our final airbnb in the lovely lincoln park neighborhood. ﻿ day 6: monday, july 8th, 2024: detroit/windsor ﻿ since we had to get up and go every day on vacation, we took the opportunity monday to not rush since we didn’t have a huge itinerary. ﻿ first up, we went to jack white’s record store, third man records, where we ran into movie/tv star elijah wood, who seemingly was also on vacation with his family. elijah was very nice, and took a quick selfie with me. ﻿ after looking around at the display on how they make records for a bit, we went next door to jolly pumpkin for brunch. i had a muffin. ﻿ we parked the car for an hour to walk around downtown detroit where we saw eminem’s restaurant, mom’s spaghetti, the fox theater, the guardian building, a cute detroit sign, and a bit of the riverwalk. i also had a really good smoothie to hydrate. all our detroit parking was $1/hour. ﻿ next we went to john k. king books, which is michigan’s largest bookstore   4 really packed floors with so many sections they had paper maps! while they had a lot of used books for decent prices, unfortunately, they were closing at 4pm, so i didn’t get to peruse enough to find something to buy. but as i have almost 600 books in this apartment and have only read about half, it’s probably for the best. ﻿ for dinner, we decided to venture across the water to windsor canada, eh! we took the $8 tunnel over, got through customs very quickly, drove around the river drive, stopped briefly to see the windsor sculpture park, stopped briefly to selfie with some geese by a windmill in historic sandwich town, and then settled down for dinner at the loose goose which had a lovely view of the river and detroit. ﻿we shared an appetizer of amazing poutine, and then i had tacos. we took the bridge back over ($8) to america, then went to see “inside out 2” at the movies, and since it was only $11 instead of $18 in nyc, penny was nice enough to treat me to the movie to thank me for all the driving i did. ﻿ conclusions ﻿ there were thankfully no issues returning the car tuesday, nor any issues on the flight home. the book i finished reading on the trip was “the women” by kristin hannah, and the movie i watched on the plane (in 2 parts since the trip was so fast) was “the hunger games: the ballad of songbirds & snakes”. in terms of tv, i finished up “sweet tooth” and watched season 2 of the incredible show “star trek: prodigy” on my ipad since netflix no longer works on my tv since according to netflix, i’m “not apart of my family’s household”. ﻿ anyway thank you to penny & mollie for accompanying me, and to everyone in and from michigan who helped plan the itinerary: walter, debbie, tracy, tam, jill & gavan. ﻿ i’m looking forward to completing the states in a few weeks, and i’ll have plenty project updates by then, too. ﻿ before i go, sweetums wanted to say, “meow!” he is currently spread out on my desk keeping me company as i finish this incredibly short recap. ﻿ please do respond to let me know how your summer is going so far! always, seth august august 18th, 2024   50 states: check + malka update happy august, dear friends and family. i’ve been asked my multiple people to add a tldr (too long didn’t read) section to the ledgers for those who skim them on a mobile device, and i’m only too happy to oblige, though i hope this tldr isn’t too long for you. this ledger contains the following sections: 1. malka: for my grandmother’s 96th birthday today we launched a post production campaign to get us across the finish line. there’s a video with footage from the movie; please watch, share, and contribute whatever you can so we can get this movie out into the world! https://tinyurl.com/malkacampaign 2. the diamond as big as the ritz: tix are only $29 when you buy them before 9/1 with the code earlybird. the 3 week run (16 performances only!) of our satirical musical based on f. scott’s fitzgerald’s short story is at the ata sargent theater on w54th st from 9/13 29! https://tinyurl.com/seeritz 3. tuesday 9/3 7:30: book reading/signing event at the drama book shop: broadway’s ashley wool will ask me questions about my new book about lq, then i’ll sign copies. please reserve your free tix! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the making of a musical the 12 year journey of love quirks tickets 926968837747 4. other fall: 25 more cabarets till year’s end when i hit #850, choir concerts at carnegie hall in december, 1 more upcoming nyt puzzle. 5. trip recap of memphis, arkansas (state 49) and oklahoma (50). 6. book, movie, tv, theater reviews, then conclusions. malka filming “malka” was one of my life’s highlights. it was a magical, emotionally fulfilling experience bringing my grandmother’s story to life in this 16 minute musical film. working with broadway legend tovah feldshuh (whom i could text right now to say hi!) was a dream come true. my entire team: my brilliant director stacey, exquisite producer jaclyn, collaborator lenny, and the entire cast & crew were phenomenal and pulled off quite a feat creating this beautiful piece. we really made a film of the utmost quality, and unfortunately, that means we more than doubled our initial budget estimate. i really hate asking people for money, as do most people, but i am going to start this ledger today with a plea for it. won’t you please help us finish this very important film on what would’ve been my grandmother’s 96th birthday? i don’t need to tell you that the level of antisemitism in the world right now is off the charts. you have no doubt witnessed the terror of the sentiments from all sides. this is my way to combat it. won’t you please go watch this video, which contains footage from the movie, and consider contributing? and please share this page to anyone you know who agrees we have to amplify authentic jewish stories right now. https://tinyurl.com/malkacampaign *if you or someone you know (or a foundation) would donate over $1k and would like a tax deduction, please send them to me for the donation link via our fiscal sponsor, fractured atlas.* thank you again for your continued support of this beautiful film. i cannot wait for you all to see the completed product. the diamond as big as the ritz we are so very happy to bring this special new musical to nyc for a 3 week run after years of development. if you’ve seen the dark side of fitzgerald on stage with “the great gatsby”, here’s your chance to enjoy his perverse wit and satire on american’s lust for wealth and power in a 90 minute show. from september 13 29, there are 16 performances with a stellar cast at the ata sargent theatre on w.54th street. dates and more information about the show are at ritzmusical.com. tickets are only $29 with the code earlybird when you order them before labor day at https://tinyurl.com/seeritz. we also have a few tickets available for opening night sunday 9/15 at 6:30pm for $49, which will include the afterparty. if you missed it in 2018, check out this dynamite all star broadway cast singing, “enough already,” a song from the show that was nominated in england for best new song: tinyurl.com/enoughalreadyvote i very much hope you can come see this show. we really love it, and i think you will, too! book signing at the drama book shop this is another bucket list item for me. ever since i was coming into the city as a teenager, i have loved the drama book shop. when i approached them about selling my book and doing an event with me, they could not have been more accommodating. my friend, broadway’s ashley wool will be interviewing me about my 4th book, “the making of a musical: the 12 year journey of love quirks” and we will also be singing a bit from the show! this event is free with a book purchase, but if you already have the book or can’t afford $16, let me know, and i can put you on the vip list. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the making of a musical the 12 year journey of love quirks tickets 926968837747 other fall projects well, it looks like another 25 or so cabarets til the end of the year, when i will hit 850 showcases. since i’ve been doing 70ish showcases per year, i have decided to eschew celebrating 850, and instead wait till 900. also, i’m just very tired. i will also be singing with my choir essential voices usa at carnegie hall again on december 20th/21st, plus we have a free concert in a brooklyn church on 12/14. (speaking of carnegie hall, i am very excited to have gotten one of the last tickets to see bernadette there in october!) finally, before the year is out (or shortly in the new year), i believe i will have one more puzzle in the new york times, and i just got a theme accepted by the wall street journal, but that will probably be out next year… day 1: wednesday, august 7th: memphis, tennessee after a 2 hour delay, i finally arrived in memphis, the first stop on the vacation. my best friend niki was supposed to arrive after me, but instead arrived before, so she was kind enough to go get the rental car. as those with good memories will know, niki and i usually travel every other year together   usually on odd years   but we missed last year, and so now i guess we’re even! (it’s always good to be even in friendships, after all!) we got to our hotel, dropped off the car, and then walked to dinner at huey’s which claimed to have the best burger in memphis. i find a lot of restaurants have claims like this, and they are very hard to verify… anyway, i had a smash burger then an ice cream brownie for dessert. afterwards, we walked down to beale street   of course, i was singing “walking in memphis” the entire time (which is a song brian childers sings at karaoke)   we ended up at the blues hall juke joint listening to a great band. (unfortunately, the bar was very smokey, and even though we sat by the door and ac, my shirt smelled afterwards like cigarettes.) day 2: thursday, august 8th: graceland thursday started with the march of the ducks at the peabody hotel, which is a quirky ceremony in which the ducks are summoned from where they sleep somewhere in the hotel, and then are brought downstairs where they march from the elevator to the pond where they spend the day. it was indeed all it was quacked up to be! next, we spent 4 hours at graceland, where elvis called home. while overpriced at $80 (with the aaa discount), we quite enjoyed learning all about elvis and seeing both his mansion and the dozen or so exhibits, including his private airplanes. first up, was the mansion. we took a van over, and then it was a self guided tour. however, we were right behind an actual tour, and kept getting stuck. while we could hear what the tour guide was saying, he was basically reiterating things that were written on panels. indeed, they offered us an ipad with an audio guide with john stamos, but again, we have eyes and can read, so we decided to just read the panels instead. personally, i am a visual learner, so i really don’t retain much that i hear rather than read. elvis had very interesting taste and seems to have really loved the color purple. he had a tv is almost every room and most of the furniture was quite ornate. the exhibitions back on the main graceland campus include the automobile museum, his cycles, some archives (including a video of elvis on frank sinatra’s show when he got back from the army), a room about his army duty, a room with icons who were inspired by elvis including dolly parton and kristin chenoweth, the entertainer career museum which was perhaps the most interesting of the rooms (there was a lot of memorabilia including a cute pin that said “oy gevalt elvis” and movie posters   who knew he was in a movie with mary tyler moore, then the epic room of all his jumpsuits, then one of his platinum records and grammy awards   of which somehow he only won 3), then a room on his daughter lisa marie, the making of elvis the movie, and finally, over on the side were his airplanes, which we could walk through. the lisa maria airplane had gold faucets in the bathroom, so elvis really knew how to fly! after we had exhausted graceland (and it exhausted us), we went to burke’s book store, which is a cute used bookstore that has been there since 1875… which is a very long time! i ended up picking up 2 books: kate atkinson’s “transcription” and e.m. forster’s “the longest journey” since i won’t be able to take out library books in london, i figure i should invest in a few good paperbacks. (not that i don’t already have 200 books here i haven’t read yet…) across the street from burke’s, which was in a cute little neighborhood, there was the house of mews where we peered in to see a room full of cats looking to be adopted! after dropping the car back off at our hotel, we had dinner at rendezvous charcoal ribs, the best ribs in memphis! i had a delicious pork shoulder sandwich. post dinner, we walked down to the mississippi river, and walked down for a bit, sitting on a bench and admiring the sunset come down over the memphis sign. we went out to an outside bar with live music, before going back to our hotel for the night. day 3: friday, august 9th: hot springs, arkansas friday we headed out for a 3 hour drive to my 49th state, arkansas! we dropped our car off at our hotel in hot springs then walked over to bathhouse row in hot springs national park. this is a historical area where bathhouses were built to harness the waters from the natural hot springs. these waters are supposed to have magical healing powers, and i can attest we both felt amazing after we had our spa day at the arlington hotel! for $105 (plus tip) we separated to a private bath soak in the hot springs water for 20 minutes, then it was a sauna, then a nap on a table with hot towels covering all joints, then a 30 minute massage. also, they gave us unlimited ice cold hot spring water, which was the best water i’ve ever had! after this relaxing recuperation, we went to the tiny free museum about hot springs, then walked around the cute little stores on the main strip. we had dinner outside at the grateful head pizza oven & beer garden where there was a friendly cat. i had spinach and pineapple pizza, and the crust was divine! next up, we walked around the national park, which was a bit underwhelming; however, we did go to the hot water cascade where we could experience the hot springs water firsthand (with our first hand that we put in the waters!). we sat outside at the craft brewery which utilized thermal spring water as the main ingredient in its beers (which niki had). then, we went to the arlington hotel for a live cover band and watched some locals dancing up a storm before heading back to our hotel for the night. day 4: saturday, august 10th: tulsa, oklahoma the breakfast buffet at the embassy suites by hilton hotel was incredible. there was an omelet station and homemade pancakes. absolutely the best hotel breakfast i’ve ever experienced! afterwards, we drove 4 hours to my 50th and final state: oklahoma! and, yes, i did sing “where the wind comes sweepin’ down the plain” as we crossed over the bridge! tulsa was pleasantly a really cute city. after checking in, we walked around downtown and headed to the tulsa arts district. we went to the woody guthrie center and learned all about woody who, of course, is best known for the song “this land is your land” and also for being the father of arlo guthrie who sang “alice’s restaurant. for only $12, we spent an hour or so learning about woody’s incredible life and career; though, obviously, you could learn about it all on wikipedia these days… after taking photos of some murals, we went out to dinner at misfit kitchen where we had salads to compensate for the trip’s previous unhealthy eating. and then we stopped by the center of the universe, which was supposed to be some sound thing, but we couldn’t seem to figure out how it worked. saturday night, we headed to okmulgee for the 69th annual okmulgee “roy leblanc” invitational rodeo. honestly, we had been really looking forward to it, but it turned out not to be the best experience. first off, it was incredibly disorganized, extremely crowded, and super chaotic. they didn’t have anyone directing traffic for parking, so we were stuck in traffic for almost an hour a few minutes from the venue. then, they didn’t have any advance ticket sales, so we had to wait on line; they only took cash or cash app (which didn’t work well b/c of the bad cellphone reception) so that queue took almost an hour, too. even though we had left early, we ended up getting into the arena around 9pm (it started at 8pm). there were no seats left by 9pm, and though we finally found a place to squeeze in in the front row, people kept walking by us, so we could barely see. we also couldn’t really hear b/c we were on the opposite side from the speakers, which were not loud enough to spread throughout the entire place. however, what we did see was super fun, and it was enjoyable to see cowboys and horses who participated in various games. we managed to watch one whole segment of a relay race before we left by walking at the same time, sadly becoming the people blocking the people in the front. so, if you ever decide to go to a rodeo, my advice to you would be: 1. arrive an hour early. 2. park further away to avoid traffic in both directions. 3. bring cash. 4. sit all the way up in the back, but on the side by the speakers. 5. limit your liquid intake (there were only 6 porta potties for thousands of people). 6. enjoy! while next time i can finally say: “this is not my first rodeo,” i suspect there won’t be a next time. however, at least it was an indelible cultural experience! day 5: sunday, august 11th: little rock, arkansas sunday morning after hotel breakfast, i dropped niki off at the airport since she had to work on monday. then, i drove myself back to memphis, but i stopped along the way at little rock. i spent the almost 7 hours drive listening to the podcasts: conan o’brien needs a friend and wiser than me with julia louis dreyfus. julia had julie andrews on this season, and that episode is incredible. it was kind of like that movie “julie & julia” except not at all! little rock really earns the name little. it was perhaps one of the smallest state capitals i’ve ever been to. first up, i went to the wonderful william j. clinton presidential center and park. this was my third presidential museum (after jimmy carter in atlanta, ga & gerald r. ford in grand rapids, mi). i think everyone on this list already knows that i adore the clintons, and it was wonderful to relieve the 90s which i barely remember since i was so young! this was a lovely museum. i started on the third floor, and they had exhibits on bill’s early years growing up in hot springs, then life in the white house and a replica of his oval office (though you had to pay money to get a photo in there) and a few clips of a tour bill and hillary gave of the actual white house. the second floor had a 12 minute film narrated by bill, and a sample cabinet room with information about all of his cabinet members. there were also timeline and alcove exhibits, which delved into the specifics of what happened during each of the 8 years of his presidency. there were even binders which had his daily schedule, so you could see what he was doing every single day in that 8 year era! there were also some letters he received from celebrities over the years, including whoopi, mr. rogers… and mother teresa. there were also a lot of gifts people sent in, including some for their cat socks. there was also a crossword puzzle from the nyt that bill filled out, some of his saxophones and hillary’s grammy award for the audiobook of “it takes a village”. i sat in the park a bit after going about halfway over the clinton presidential park bridge, then went over to the capitol park to see the capitol building. then, i drove onto memphis where i stayed at a charming airbnb and had a very lovely and relaxing night texting people. the next day i had a nearly perfect flight back to nyc, randomly getting bumped up to comfort plus, and i managed to get home from la guardia airport in under an hour, which is unbelievable and will probably never happen again. books here’s what i’ve read so far this summer! i’m happy to say that all my overdue library books have been finally returned. the women   novel about nurses in vietnam by kristin hannah. long island   this sequel to “brooklyn” by colm toibin was absolutely fantastic. beautyland   this fantastical book by marie helene bertino was a great, short read. how we named the stars   sweet coming of age book about love and grief by andrés n. ordorica. green frog   really great book of short stories by gina chung   i’m looking forward to reading her novel soon. (short stories are really good for people with adhd, btw!) movies summertime doesn’t lend itself to watching movies b/c there are too many free things to do outside… like watching “funny face” which is a wonderful classic movie they showed at bryant park a few weeks ago! but i saw the following: the imaginary   this was an early preview of this great netflix animated movie. inside out 2   i saw this in mi, and it’s really a great sequel to the pixar film. didi   the strangest thing happened   i actually watched a commercial for this on tv, and just really thought it looked cute, and i had to plans saturday night, and i went, and it was a really sweet movie! tv there really has been a dearth of shows due to it being summer, but here are a few recommendations: me   adorable coming of age super hero drama on apple tv the ark   this show on syfy (streaming on peacock) is really fantastic. best space type show in years. it’ll probably get canceled, but maybe if you all watch it in the next few weeks, it’ll get a season 3! evil   i cannot overstate how amazing this series (paramount+) which is ending on thursday is. it’s like a scarier “x files”. supacell   i actually was able to put netflix back on my tv for 2 weeks (guess i can do that every 3 months or so) to watch the final seasons of “cobra kai” and “elite” and i was recommended this great bbc show about people who start to develop superpowers in their 20s   it just got renewed for season 2! the decameron   i found this mini series about rich people during the black plague’s lives falling apart pretty amusing. the cast is wonderful. i wish i could say i was looking forward to more shows this fall, but there’s just not much out there anymore. i cannot wait for the final seasons of “superman and lois” and “what we do in the shadows”. also “only murders in the building” is back soon! theatre i haven’t seen that much since the last ledger since it’s summer, but i did see the following: the welkin   sandra oh starred in this new off broadway play.home   wonderfully acted 3 hander following a man’s life. water for elephants   my friend (and showcase alumni) marissa rosen is making her broadway debut in this circus filled musical starring tv’s flash. tovah feldshuh: aging is optional (at least i hope so)   my bff tovah presented a wonderful cabaret about aging. someone spectacular   sweet play about grief off broadway. once on this island: in asl by deaf broadway   lincoln center outdoors staged a version of ooti with deaf broadway, that was a great watch. empire   off broadway musical about the making of the empire state building. job   i’m actually seeing this broadway play monday night, but wanted to include it so i know where to start the next ledger. there are a few plays this season that i’m looking forward to like “the hills of california” and i will most likely have to see audra in “gypsy”. i obviously also look forward to seeing the diamond as big as the ritz 16 times in september! conclusions well, there you have it. i hope that you are having a wonderful end of the summer. i apologize for having to ask for more money yet again, but unfortunately, that is really the only way to get my projects produced! i thank you in advance for your generous support, and let’s please get “malka” funded this fall! sweetums is upset that i didn’t give him a section this time. he is the very sweetest, and has been keeping me company by my feet while i have been ferociously typing this ledger the last few hours. a special thank you to niki for joining me on this trip. she is actually the one who showed me the been app, and she is the one who sparked my competitive nature by giving me a task to check off, and an achievement to achieve. i feel very accomplished having managed to see all 50 states, and i look forward to writing and then publishing my 5th book, “seth rates the states” probably around my birthday in february 2026. if you made it this far, then i thank you very much one more time. it’s been a lot of updates this summer, but i think this will be it for a big email till my end of the year recap… at which point, i hope i can say that i have funded both of my projects! regardless of everything, i hope to see you all this september at the diamond as big as the ritz. it is very exciting to have a show running in nyc, and i can’t wait for you to see it. as always, please respond with your own rather lengthly update if i haven’t heard from you in awhile. always, seth december december 28th, 2024   seth’s 2024 annual recap happy new year! 2024 has been a banner year for my career. let’s recap, shall we? 2024 accomplishments last year, i banished my annual tradition of making resolutions, then checking in at the end of the year to see how i did. well, that was really good for mental health, but the irony is, this year i think i would’ve gotten a 100% for the first time! here is what i accomplished in 2024: 1. we produced “malka” a 17 minute musical film inspired by my grandmother’s holocaust story, starring the incomparable star tovah feldshuh. and it came out beautifully! 2. i raised money for post production of “malka” and it has already been accepted into film festivals. 3. love quirks had its college premiere at hofstra university, and it was a huge sold out success. 4. agatha christie’s the secret adversary had an incredible 2 day reading with broadway performers in the leads. 5. the diamond as big as the ritz had a wonderful 3 week run off off broadway. 517 people came to see this poignant show, and it got nominated for 5 bww awards! 6. i had 6 published crossword puzzles this year (a record for me!): 1 nyt, 3 wsj, 1 lat, and 1 universal (coming out 12/30). 7. i produced, emceed and accompanied 73 cabaret showcases at don’t tell mama including a sheldon harnick tribute cabaret, 2 muppet cabarets & 2 nights of my songs celebrating hitting 800 weekly shows. 8. i published my 4th book “the making of a musical” (amazon.com/author/sethbh) 9. i did a book reading/singing at the drama book shop (which was a bucket list item!) 10. someone made me a wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/seth_bisen hersh 11. i visited my final 4 states (west virginia, michigan, arkansas & oklahoma), and have now been to all 50. 12. i visited 1 new country (vatican city) and also spent more time in italy. 13. i sang 2 nights at carnegie hall in a sold out concert with guest stars jessica vosk and neil patrick harris with my wonderful choir essential voices usa. 14. my broadway bowling team came in 3rd place both in the spring and the fall seasons, and i personally was the 12th ranked bowler in terms of points won out of about 200 bowlers. 15. i adopted a wonderful new cat, sweetums. 16. i not only survived another year as an artist in nyc, but i legitimately thrived, and for the first time in my career, i can say i have no complaints about its trajectory. 2025 previews i’m going to eschew resolutions again, but here are some things you can look forward to in my life in 2025: 1. i have my third new york times crossword puzzle coming out on wednesday, 1/1! i also have one in universal this february. (and this monday 12/30.) hopefully more by the year’s end. (as of the february one, that’ll be 16 published puzzles since 2019.) 2. “malka” will have its world premiere at the miami jewish film festival, january 10 23. the film will be screened virtually, but it is geo blocked so only people who live in florida can see it. if you live in fl or know someone who lives there, they can get $10 virtual tickets to watch the film in the block of narrative shorts: https://miamijewishfilmfestival.org/films/2025/shorts block narrative 2025 3. “malka” will be in other festivals and cities, but nothing i can announce yet. (and we applied for dozens we haven’t heard back from.) we are also setting up screenings in museums, temples, and jccs. if your temple/jcc would be interested in sponsoring a screening, please let me know! 4. we are hard at work writing the feature script for the full version of “malka”. it might take a few years to make this happen, but we are laying the groundwork in 2025. 5. love quirks is almost officially moving to london’s off west end in fall 2025. look for an announcement in march! 6. i am hopeful that love quirks will also have more college and regional productions in 2025. 7. weekly showcases continue… well, weekly (and often twice a weekly). to celebrate hitting 850, i’m doing 2 sondheim cabarets (1/28 & 1/30) and i will hit 900 by the fall, so i will mostly likely produce 2 concerts of my songs to celebrate hitting 900 in september! 8. i’m not at liberty to say more yet, but agatha christie’s the secret adversary will also return in some fashion for 2025! 9. while most of my travel in 2025 will be “malka” or love quirks related, i am squeezing in a 5 day trip to san juan, puerto rico as sort of a bonus state in january. 10. i also will start writing my 5th book: “seth rates the states” next year, and will tentatively publish it for my birthday, february 2026. sweetums sweetums has gotten friskier and quirkier as he has gotten comfortable in his new home. he is still the sweetest, most loving cat, and a huge cuddler. he’s incredibly friendly to guests, too. he is happy to purr sent his new webpage: sethbh.com/sweetums and while you’re on sethbh.com, fyi, my annual best 101 photos of my friends/family for the year can be found at sethbh.com/2024 pictures! best of 2024 books first off, here are the books i’ve read since this summer’s ledger. pineapple street by jenny jackson   this was a fun book about a dysfunctional family in brooklyn. muppets in moscow by natasha lance rogoff   this was a fantastic memoir about what it took to get “sesame street” produced and aired in russia in the 90s after the fall of communism. of course, putin canceled the show in 2010. but wow, what a story! ministry of time by kaliane bradley   this was a cute book, though it was a bit timey wimey. real americans by rachel khong   this is a fantastic novel about what it really means to be american following 3 generations. the world after alice by lauren aliza green   my friend wrote this charming novel about a family dealing with supreme loss. can’t wait for her next book! james by percival everett   this is a retelling of “huckleberry finn” from jim or james’ perspective. long island compromise by taffy brodesser akner   hilarious book about the consequences of a kidnapping in long island. fantastic read! north woods by daniel mason   this was an interesting concept, following a cabin in the woods over the centuries. the mighty red by louise erdrich   a book about a town in north dakota, which had amusing moments. intermezzo by sally rooney   i’m only halfway through this one, but it is a pretty quick read and features rooney’s usual cerebral characters. and here are my top choices for the year: best book of the year: real americans honorable mentions: the bee sting, long island, long island compromise best of 2024 movies here are the movies i saw in the theatres since my last update. anora   this is a wonderful movie about a stripper with a heart of gold   kind of like a modern “sweet charity” without the songs… goodrich   this was a cute comedy starring michael keaton as a father learning how to make amends. the substance   this is a fantastic satire starring the incomparable demi moore as an aging woman trying to recapture her youth and her career. september 5   this was a great movie following the sports news team that covered the 1972 munich olympics and their point of view as the israeli team was taken hostage by terrorists. wicked   undeniably spectacular film of the iconic broadway musical, looking forward to part 2 next year! los frikis   this was a cuban film about a group of rockers who inject themselves with hiv in the 80s so they can live in sequestered colonies for free, which of course, does not turn out to be a great idea in the end. very good film, though. also, i watched these streaming on tv: dream scenario   quirky and very funny movie starring nicholas cage as a guy who starts appearing in people’s dreams. emilia perez   this dark musical was unique.joker: folie à deux   i actually kind of enjoyed this musical sequel to joker. the boy and the heron   wonderful, beautiful studio ghilbli movie. beetlejuice beetlejuice   a few of us had a movie marathon to watch the original, then the sequel. definitely glad we did that so we could see all the easter eggs. while the second one wasn’t as good as the first, it had many really hilarious moments, and catherine o’hara remains iconic. and here are my top choices for the year: best movie: anora honorable mentions: coup de grace, the substance, wicked best of 2024 television first up, here are some new tv recommendations: english teacher   this fx comedy was really quite funny and actually made me laugh out loud. a man on the inside   this netflix show starring ted danson was both funny and very sweet. shrinking   i didn’t love the pilot, but everyone kept talking about this show, so i finally went back to it, and by episode 2 i was hooked. nobody wants this   my friend tovah feldshuh co stars on this hilarious show about a rabbi who falls in love with a sex podcaster. fallout   this was a really great show about the world after a nuclear incident, based on a video game i have never heard of. agatha all along   it took a few episodes to get into, but how can one not enjoy a show where patti lupone gets to sing? pachinko   season 2 of “pachinko” was wonderful, and i hope it gets picked up for season 3! under the bridge   this fx show on hulu based on a true story was well written and well acted. next a shout out to the best shows that have sadly ended in 2024: evil   i will miss this show so much. it was a truly bonkers final season! what we do in the shadows   i will also miss this hilarious show, and the final episodes, which featured 3 different sequences, plus 4 or 5 different endings, should’ve gone forever. superman and lois   rip arrow universe on the cw. this was the best of all the dc shows and the final season was epic. my brilliant friend   i love this book series and the adaptation was absolutely perfect. star trek: lower decks   this was such a funny and fun animated “star trek” show, and i thought it could’ve gone on longer! and here are my top choices for the year: best new tv comedy: a man on the inside honorable mentions: english teacher, mr. & mrs. smith best new tv dramas: we were the lucky ones honorable mentions: baby reindeer, a gentleman in moscow best new tv sci fi/fantasy: dark matter honorable mentions: agatha all along, fallout best of 2024 theatre here are all the shows i’ve seen this fall: steven cohen: chamber magic   in a room with electricity designed by edison in an old hotel in nyc, this fantastic close up magic show did not disappoint. the diamond as big as the ritz   i mean, i saw it 14 times, so i had to put it on the list even though i wrote it! life line   musical about the issues of people becoming immune to antibiotics. vladimir   off broadway play inadvertently about putin. forbidden broadway   wonderful revival of this beloved nyc show, with a stellar cast and brand new parodies on the state of the art. spirits speakeasy   my friend rori got to sing her heart out as bess houdini, while houdini and other magicians and mediums performed magic. medea re versed   this was a modern retelling of medea with hip hop music. grounded (met opera)   jeanine tesori’s new opera at the met   she is so versatile! sump’n like wings   first revival of an old play by the guy who wrote the play “oklahoma!” was based on. the devil’s disciple   wonderful production of a prescient shaw play off broadway. bad kreyol   this off broadway play by dominique morisseau was really wonderful. walden   sandra oh starred in this off broadway play about a witch hunt. ainadamar (met opera)   this was an argentinian opera, but it was more like a sound poem and didn’t have much of a plot. bernadette peters (carnegie hall)   i saw bernadette’s first solo concert at carnegie when i was in high school, and there was no way i was going to miss her return!! drag the musical   surprisingly, this was a really fun musical about 2 competing drag shows. we live in cairo   ambitious musical that took place in egypt during the arab spring. rhinocerous   my friend jen produced and starred in this production of this bizarre, satirical play about a townspeople that become conformist. teeth   graphic new musical based on a movie about women who grow teeth in their… well, you can google it, if you like. rigoletto (met opera)   fantastic production of this tragic verdi classic featuring the famous song “o donne mobile” which basically is a song about how women are fickle and annoying… who knew? the hills of california   this was an incredibly well acted, written and directed play, though it sadly wasn’t as revelatory as his other play “the ferryman”. skyscraper   revival of this obscure 1965 musical that my friend avital produced and directed/choreographed. super weird show, but happy to have seen it! death becomes her   megan hilty and jennifer simard slay in this hilarious new broadway musical based on the camp movie. maybe happy ending   this broadway musical was so original and so beautiful, and i highly recommend everyone go to see it. the roommate   patti lupone is always a pleasure to watch live.cult of love   great new broadway play about a family’s xmas get together. die frau ohne schatten (met opera)   this production of this strauss opera that i had never heard before was incredible. pen pals   cute little off broadway play about a lifelong friendship where they get mildly famous people (like jo from “the facts of life”) to read letters on stage. oh, mary!   revisited this hilarious, campy show on broadway when my friend won $5 tickets for mary todd’s birthday. eureka day   this funny, satirical broadway play about a school board dealing with anti vaxxers was incredibly well written and acted. mindplay   i’m actually seeing this mentalist show in a few hours, but i had to put it on the list b/c i’m going to put my 2024 planner in the closet in a few days. left on tenth   this will be my final broadway play of the year   it is a rom com starring julianna margulies and peter gallagher. and here are my top choices for the year: best broadway musical: maybe happy ending (honorable mention: death becomes her) best broadway comedy: oh, mary! (honorable mention: eureka day) best broadway drama: mother play (honorable mention: patriots, cult of love) best off broadway musical: three houses (honorable mention: the connector) best off broadway comedy: all of me (honorable mention: brooklyn laundry) best off broadway drama: bad kreyol (honorable mention: sunset baby) best met opera: die frau ohne schatten (honorable mention: rigoletto) best solo show: nobody cares (laura benanti) best off off broadway musical: the diamond as big as the ritz (duh) conclusions there’s no denying that 2024 was quite a good year for my career filled with major highs. as most of you know, personally there were some major lows to balance these out including my divorce, the death of my cat joni at the age of 3, and of course, the election, which will have ramifications for the next 4 years… however, as much as i struggle with being positive, i am going to try to focus on the good things, and somehow let the bad things dissipate. because while we cannot change many situations, things or people, we can change the way we view them. i thank anyone who has made it this far for reading the whole ledger. i thank you all for being a continued part of my life. i remain, as always, grateful to have so many people supporting me through the years. i wish you the most happiest and healthiest 2025. always, seth

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"<strong>this</strong> is not such a serious problem." trade deficit values inconsistent zhu also noted that u.s. and chinese figures regarding the deficit secretary <strong>of</strong> energy tours bates lab siiao fei moy the tech u.s. energy secretary bill richardson expresses his support for bates laboratory in a visit to the facility tuesday. by shao fel moy sports editor united states secretary <strong>of</strong> energy bill richardson <strong>of</strong>fered his support to the researchers and employees <strong>of</strong> the <strong>mit</strong> bates linear accelerator center in middleton, mass. during his visit tuesday. <strong>this</strong> marks the first ever appearance by an energy secretary to bates lab. richardson's visit began with a meeting with ten researchers from across the country representing bates. during the meeting, the researchers expressed their appreciation for the energy secretary's work in amending the budget which originally had bates heading for a "cold shutdown" at the end <strong>of</strong> the year. each <strong>of</strong> the ten representatives stressed the importance <strong>of</strong> bates in the research they have done and will continue to do at the facilities. bates lab, which is operated by the <strong>mit</strong> laboratory for nuclear science for the department <strong>of</strong> energy, is a national user facility and has been a center for world class experiments in nuclear physics for 25 years. over 200 physicists from 52 institutions are actively utilizin'g the bates' facilities; about 120 ph.d. students have been educated and trained at the lab. in president bill clinton's fiscal year 2000 budget released on february 1, 1999, bates' allocation would have been reduced from . ..' 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"<strong>this</strong> type <strong>of</strong> import has absolutely no competition in the u.s. market," zhu said. "<strong>the</strong>se consumer goods   you wouldn't be able to find anyone to manufacture them in the united states." as labor costs increased in other nations, zhu said, manufacturing shifted to china. thus, while the u.s. trade deficit with china increased, it decreased proportion  zhu, page 16 garry r. maskaly tiie tecii chinese premier zhu rongjl addressed a packed kresge auditorium on wednesday, wrapping up his nlne day visit to the united states. lcsannounces new building, project by jennifer chung and may k. tse staff reporters <strong>the</strong> <strong>mit</strong> laboratory for computer science celebrated its 35th anniversary this week in a three day celebration that culminated tuesday with the announcements <strong>of</strong> a $20 million donation and a major new project. micros<strong>of</strong>t ceo bill gates presented the donation on behalf <strong>of</strong> himself and his wife melinda for the william h. gates iii foundation. <strong>the</strong> donation will be used to create a new "home <strong>of</strong> lcs", to be named the william h. gates building and to be part <strong>of</strong> the stata center for computer, information and intelligence sciences. with the research project, dubbed oxygen, lcs plans to create and use the support <strong>of</strong> existing research to better tackle such issues as speech recognition and better worldwide communication, enabling technology to truly become more user friendly. other events during the festivities included the sealing <strong>of</strong> the lcs time capsule <strong>of</strong> innovations and keynote speeches by gates and principal research scientist tim berners lee, inventor <strong>of</strong> the world wide web. comics page 12 <strong>the</strong> time capsule, designed by frank o. gehry, architect for the stata center, will be opened in time for the 70th anniversary <strong>of</strong> lcs in 2033   unless the cryptographic puzzle associated with it and designed by associate lcs director ronald l. rivest is solved in less than the 35 years the solution is designed to take. <strong>the</strong> capsule contains reference to such innovations as project athena, rsa public key cryptography, x  windows, and zork, the earliest interactive pc game. new gates building <strong>the</strong> gates building will be situated where building 20 used to stand, "in the middle <strong>of</strong> campus, where lcs belongs," said president charles m. vest. 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supported by wordplay, the crossword column seth bisen hersh and jeff chen game the system. by sam corbin jump to: today’s theme | tricky clues note to readers: in the past, wordplay indicated crossword clues with quotation marks. in crossword construction and editing, though, clues are typically indicated by brackets, a practice wordplay is now following. tuesday puzzle   seth bisen hersh, who constructed today’s crossword with jeff chen, wrote that he was inspired to craft this grid’s theme while watching a tv show hosted by penn & teller, the prolific magician duo. i grew up admiring penn & teller, too   only it was because of their prank book, “how to play with your food.” the book was given to me by my aunt, no doubt in the hopes that i’d terrorize my parents with it. and reader, i did: one my favorite tricks from the book involved palming a single serve creamer from a restaurant’s dining table, and then casually starting to play with a fork near my face. having subtly brought the hand with the creamer near my eye, i’d stab the cup with the fork and scream as the creamer spattered unsuspecting family members with a stream of white liquid that my eye seemed to have expelled. this puzzle’s theme relies on slightly higher brow sleights of hand   hint   but i’m willing to bet that you’ll love it. you may know the [card game whose winning hands can be found hidden in 17 , 27 , 42  and 54 across] (33a) as blackjack, but constraints in the grid led the constructors to refer to it by its other name, twenty one. each of the entries cited in the revealer clue hides a pair of cards that adds up to 21   or blackjack   in the game. [sloppily making out, in slang] (17a) is known as sucking face. the [piece of jewelry consisting of a single line of diamonds] (27a) is a tennis bracelet. an ace is worth 11 points, while the remaining honor cards   jack, queen and king   are worth 10 apiece. twenty one is played with a two card hand, which means that to reach exactly 21, you have to have draw an ace and an honor card.

 sam corbin writes about language, wordplay and the daily crossword for the new york times. her humor writing appears regularly in the new yorker, and she co hosts vocabaret, a live variety show for language lovers. she holds multiple championship titles for competitive punning, and would ask that you do not hold that against her. kiran pandey salts the pavement. by sam corbin adam aaronson gets us all turned around.