Morning Coffee (5/29/14)

Into the Fire: Will Investigators Bring Charges in the Back Bay Blaze?

Rebelling Against Abuse, Afghan Women See Signs of Change

Gillian Flynn is doing Hamlet for those Hogarth Shakespeare retellings and . . . hmm. That should be interesting.

The scholar who linked Dracula with Vlad the Impaler has died.

Interesting: Ukraine Faces Hurdles in Restoring Its Farming Legacy

Esther Dyson: Breaking through tech’s glass ceiling

What it’s like to win the National Spelling Bee

Perfect: The Hobbit, Improved

Morning Coffee (12/20/12)

Yesterday President Obama was named Time Person of the Year, and you absolutely must take a look at this profile of his photographer, Pete Souza, and accompanying slideshow.

!!!! Bradley Whitford is guest starring on Go On, which of course stars his Studio 60 costar Matt Perry. !!!!

Check out the Fug Girls' 25 Best Red Carpet Moments of the year.

You must read Sarah Rees Brennan's parody of The Hobbit.

BBC America has picked up a whole season of the Nerdist TV show. Whee!

Literary gingerbread houses!

That Indiana Jones package mystery was solved.

They're making an Irish-language version of Cheers. Awesome.