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What is worth playing, what is worth buying, and what is worth skipping.

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The Christmas Movies Worth Watching Again Every December

A rotation you can lock in before Thanksgiving, with runtimes, plain content notes, and the deep cut nobody in your house has seen.

StoryHumorMarcus ValeSep 23, 20265 min

How the Cleanest Comedians in America Got the Biggest Laughs

Jack Benny, Bob Newhart and Brian Regan built careers on jokes you can repeat in front of your kids. The craft is learnable. Steal it.

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GuideMusicDean ShawSep 23, 20266 min

Turn a Story Into a Song Without Losing the Story

The craft behind a three-minute country, gospel or bluegrass song, from the one-sentence test to the line you'll have to cut.

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The American Biopics Actually Worth Your Saturday Night

Thirteen real lives on film, with runtimes, ratings, the content concerns named plainly, and which ones the kids can actually sit through.

Poll

What was your first ever job?

StoryHumorWes DunbarSep 23, 20266 min

Hunting Camp Stories Clean Enough to Tell at Dinner

The best ones cost you a deer, a thermos, or your dignity. Five from my camp, plus the rules for telling them so people actually laugh.

GuideMusicWes DunbarSep 23, 20266 min

How to Get Into Bluegrass and Actually Start Playing It

Five instruments, one 1945 band that started the whole thing, and a listening order that takes you from Bill Monroe to Billy Strings without getting lost.

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GuideMovies & TVMarcus ValeSep 23, 20265 min

Old Movies Grandparents and Grandkids Can Actually Finish

A working plan for the couch: which classics hold a seven-year-old, which ones need a warning first, and the fifteen-minute trick that beats black-and-white resistance.

Quiz

Is your money actually in order?

Six questions. No email required, no sales pitch at the end.

GuideGolfDean ShawSep 23, 20265 min

Public Courses Worth Flying Across the Country For

Bethpage Black posts a warning sign at the first tee for a reason. Pick the golf trip that fits the game you actually have.

GuideMusicSam OrtizSep 23, 20266 min

Twelve Minutes a Day Beats an Hour of Arguing

Count repetitions instead of minutes, fix the bench height, and stop asking a nine-year-old to be the one who remembers.

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Build me a revision plan that I will actually stick to

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GuideMovies & TVSam OrtizSep 23, 20266 min

Father and Son Movies That Actually Hit Hard

Twelve films about fathers and sons worth a Saturday night, with the content concerns named up front and the right age for each.

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GuideGolfDean ShawSep 23, 20266 min

The Golf Rules That Actually Come Up on a Saturday Morning

Three minutes to find it, knee height to drop it, and the free relief you keep leaving on the table. The ten situations that decide your score.

Poll

Where does your phone charge overnight?

StoryMusicJosh HalloranSep 23, 20265 min

The Stories Behind the Hymns You Sing Without Thinking

A telegram reading "Saved alone," a slave ship captain, and a father who lost everything in two days. The hymnal is full of people having the worst week of their lives.