At The @AmericanRep's Loeb, Ahem, Theater, Diane Paulus Introducing Teller, The Normally Wordless Half

Wow, who knew?

New on the Houghton Library Blog, early 20th century sheet music featuring male impersonators. 

Sheet Music 273 and 280

Houghton Library, Harvard University

When your friends' #books are on the same shelf in a @barnesandnoble in #SantaMonica #BlackMass #MasterThieves @publicaffairsbooks

Sarah Jane Cook Dakin and Edmund H. Cook via the City of Boston Archives on Flickr.

Another great list of books to get you through this bitterly cold winter.

32 Books Guaranteed To Make You Laugh Out Loud

Warning: You’ll probably want to read these books in private, since spontaneous maniacal laughter may ensue.

If you need a laugh on a freezing cold day

Wow! loads of ghost children in those streets. 

Albany and Troy Streets, 1915 February 17, Building Department, Special Examination photograph collection, 1914-1918   (Collection # 5410.010)

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And then this happened. We visited a 'big cat' rehab centre. This guy and his brother were nearly dead when they came to the centre. Anticipating your question, Erica Corsano, no I had all these clothes already.

Mistakes to avoid when you’re fighting a cold

- We’ve all heard the conventional wisdom: Do nothing for a cold and it will last for seven days; try a host of remedies, and it will last for a week.

Ted Williams was quite the cutey as a kid, no?

Ted was candid to a fault

An exclusive excerpt from Ben Bradlee, Jr.’s “The Kid”:  Williams was high strung, filled with nervous energy, always biting his fingernails. Ted’s friends found him candid to a fault, unvarnished. If he didn’t like someone, he would tell him so, to his face, rather than gossip behind his back. “I don’t care for you, fellah,” he might say. 

(PHOTO: Young Ted Williams. May Williams Collection.)

Me and my friend, the 2013 Red Sox trophy. Thank you to Arlington state Rep. Sean Garballey for getting the Red Sox to allow the trophy to travel to Arlington Town Hall earlier this week.

Ted Williams knew how to get on base…just like David Ortiz. 

The Kid’s goal: Get on base

 An exclusive excerpt from Ben Bradlee, Jr.’s “The Kid”: [Ted] Williams’s hitting credo was simple: get a good pitch to hit. Critics said he followed this rule to the extreme by refusing to chase a pitch that was even an inch off the strike zone, thereby hurting his team by having its best hitter often pass up an opportunity to drive a runner home. But Ted made the slippery slope counter-argument: that if he chased a pitch an inch from the plate, it would only encourage pitchers to throw two inches outside the zone, then three inches, and so on. History has vindicated Ted’s approach, as there is now broad acceptance of the value of reaching base, or on-base-percentage, a statistic that was not appreciated and barely even kept in Williams’s day. 

(PHOTO: Ted Williams happily crossing home plate at Fenway Park, 1939. Courtesy of the Trustees of the Boston Public Library - Leslie Jones Collection.)