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Thursday, March 8, 2012

Quoted: Elisabeth Moss on her ex, Fred Armisen

Dennis and Elizabeth Kucinich: What’s next?Celebvocate: Kristin Davis speaks up for women farmersIn other news: Forest Whitaker may play White House butler; Rush wants songs off Rush Limbaugh’s showHey, isn’t that. . . ?: Apolo OhnoEntries By CategoryCelebvocateFirst FamilyHeyIn other news...LovePartiesPoliticsQuotedRead ThisSurreal EstateUpdateWhite House Correspondents' Association DinnerWhite House State DinnerStories By DateFull Monthly Archive Posted at 12:32 PM ET, 03/08/2012By The Reliable Source

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Huggies makes a mess with its new ‘Dad Test’ campaign

Technology’s benefits for teens vs. YouTube fights, cyber-harassment, webcam spyingD.C. public schools: Lottery results reveal a new set of popular kidsMaclaren files for bankruptcy and a stereotype goes down with itWhat parents can learn when a child is rejected from schoolStories By DateFull Monthly Archive Posted at 07:00 AM ET, 03/08/2012By Janice D'Arcy

The diaper giant Huggies has made a mess this week by rolling out an advertising campaign that portrays fathers as hapless and helpless in the face of a child’s needs.

The campaign, called “The Dad Test,” comes with this tag line: “To prove that Huggies diapers and wipes can handle anything, we put them to the toughest test imaginable: Dads, alone with their babies, in one house, for five days.”

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Map artist Matthew Picton’s paper cities — including Washington

This bookmark will change the worldInternational Women’s Day: 10 ways to celebrateFolger Shakespeare hosts acquisitions adoption nightThe Kennedy Center 2012-2013 season: a closer lookEntries By CategoryAboutJacqueline TrescottJazzNational Endowment for the Artsnational endowment for the humanitiesStories By DateFull Monthly Archive Posted at 12:37 PM ET, 03/08/2012By Maura Judkis

I can see where the Washington Post office would be on Matthew Picton’s sculpture of Washington, D.C., and it’s thankfully not one of the spots with the burn marks that char various parts of our city. Go ahead, Washingtonians, take a minute to squint and find your home or workplace:

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Beer Madness 2012 begins with 32

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The beer universe continues to expand. There were 1,927 breweries operating in the United States for all or part of 2011, according to the Brewers Association, and 855 more in the planning stages. That’s an increase of almost 10 percent in a year’s time.

With such developments in mind, we probably could have doubled last year’s field of 64 for Beer Madness, our annual blind tasting to crown a king of the cooler, the results of which will be revealed over the next month or so. But we went in the opposite direction, condensing the pack of craft brews to 32. That made sense for several reasons, and it gave our judges the right amount of time to swish, swirl and determine a true champion.

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Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Dennis and Elizabeth Kucinich: What’s next?

Celebvocate: Kristin Davis speaks up for women farmersIn other news: Forest Whitaker may play White House butler; Rush wants songs off Rush Limbaugh’s showHey, isn’t that. . . ?: Apolo OhnoSen. Barbara Boxer and the headless staffersEntries By CategoryCelebvocateFirst FamilyHeyIn other news...LovePartiesPoliticsQuotedRead ThisSurreal EstateUpdateWhite House Correspondents' Association DinnerWhite House State DinnerStories By DateFull Monthly Archive Posted at 06:30 PM ET, 03/07/2012By The Reliable Source

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Technology’s benefits for teens vs. YouTube fights, cyber-harassment, webcam spying

D.C. public schools: Lottery results reveal a new set of popular kidsMaclaren files for bankruptcy and a stereotype goes down with itWhat parents can learn when a child is rejected from schoolGeneration Collaboration: Consulting your kids on where to shop, what to buyStories By DateFull Monthly Archive Posted at 01:58 PM ET, 03/07/2012By Janice D'Arcy

The Pew Research Center and Elon University have released a survey of Internet experts that found just over half of them believe that the connectivity of teens today will ultimately benefit them. The optimists think kids can now access human knowledge at a greater speed and to a greater extent than ever before, according to the survey.

But at the same time, the downsides of this connectivity are on display across the country, including a courtroom in New Jersey, a playground in Massachusetts, and recent cases in this region.

Last week, I wrote about a fight between girls at Montgomery County’s Churchill High that was briefly posted on YouTube. The Post’s Donna St. George recently wrote about a boy in Calvert County who was so humiliated by the broadcasting of a fight he was involved in that he’s left school altogether.

Meanwhile, the trial of Dharun Ravi in New Jersey is currently fusing “parental anxieties about the hidden worlds of teen-age computing, teen-age sex, and teen-age unkindness,” the New Yorker’s Ian Parker writes in a recent piece that details the high-profile trial.

Ravi is on trial for intimidating and invading the privacy of his Rutgers roommate Tyler Clementi. He faces ten years in prison.

The case stems from a night when Ravi rigged his webcam so that he could remotely spy on his roommate, who was gay, and another man. Ravi shared what he saw with a friend, tweeted about it and later planned to hold an online party to spy on the roommate again.

Clementi discovered the spying. He then killed himself by jumping off the George Washington Bridge.

The Ravi case is a legally complicated one and it remains unclear how closely Clementi’s suicide can be tied to the cyber-spying. Neither it nor the other incidents discount what the experts polled by Pew had to say about the potential of technology in kids’ lives.

What the incidents do suggest is that technology is also amplifying the hardest parts of adolescence — the cruelty, the betrayals, the embarrassments. It’s hard to feel worldly when the entire universe you occupy has witnessed your humiliation.

The issue for parents is how to help kids use technology for its benefits and avoid its more nefarious temptations. Is the answer to engage kids in more conversations about technology? Is it to monitor them more? Is it to shoot their laptops?

We are supposed to be the helicopter-parent generation, no? Where are we on this?

Folger Shakespeare hosts acquisitions adoption night

On the Bro’d’: Kerouac for the Jaegerbomb setTitanic at National Geographic: 100 years of mystery and discoveryLouis Vuitton’s steam-engine fall fashion show (VIDEO)Entries By CategoryAboutJacqueline TrescottJazzNational Endowment for the Artsnational endowment for the humanitiesStories By DateFull Monthly Archive Posted at 05:58 PM ET, 03/07/2012By Jacqueline Trescott

Oh the letters, the almanacs, the etchings. Over at the Folger Shakespeare Library, they continue to collect rare artifacts to add to its mammoth collection on the life and times of the playwright.

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Market Roundup: March 10-11

Does your relationship with Oreos extend to its spinoffs?Chat Leftovers: Finding a fricasseeJose Andres’s food truck delivers long waits, big flavorsAddie’s chef takes new gig at Mealey’s TableEntries By CategoryAll We Can EatBeerBooksChat LeftoversChefsComfort FoodFood PoliticsFood labelingHolidayIn SeasonMarkets This WeekMediaRecipesRestaurantsShoppingSmoke SignalsSpiritsSustainable FoodTales of the TestersTelevisionWineStories By DateFull Monthly Archive Posted at 10:53 PM ET, 03/07/2012By Becky Krystal

A taste of what will be at area farmers markets this week:

At Saturday’s Falls Church Farmers Market:

Cavanna Pasta: beef, spinach and cheese ravioli; cannelloni; lasagna.

Cibola Farms: bison prime cuts (loin roast, tenderloin and standing rib roast).

Endless Summer Harvest: lettuces; salad greens.

At Saturday’s FreshFarm Market in Silver Spring:

Atwater’s Bakery: chocolate-cherry bread; Irish brown bread.

Chicano Sol: baby kale.

Evensong Farm: organic beef.

Quaker Valley Orchards: Boston head lettuce; frozen blueberries and blackberries.

At Sunday’s FreshFarm Market at Dupont Circle:

Black Rock Orchard: Asian pears.

Clear Spring Creamery: milk.

Spring Valley Farm and Orchard: spinach.

The Farm at Sunnyside: celery root.

Toigo Orchards: spicy and mild micro greens.

At Sunday’s Takoma Park Farmers Market:

Atwater’s Bakery: breads; scones; muffins; cookies.

Audia’s Farm: homemade jams; dried herbs; spice mixes.

Black Rock Orchard: 12 kinds of apples; cider.

Smith Meadows: black bean and beef chili; Tuscan bean soup.

Twin Springs Fruit Farm: Middle Eastern cucumbers.

See our lists of local farmers markets and Community-Supported Agriculture farms.

Search for seasonal recipes in our Recipe Finder.

If you have a new market or see information that needs to be corrected in our farmers market listings, e-mail krystalr

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Beer Madness 2012 begins with 32

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Titanic at National Geographic: 100 years of mystery and discovery

Louis Vuitton’s steam-engine fall fashion show (VIDEO)Entries By CategoryAboutJacqueline TrescottJazzNational Endowment for the Artsnational endowment for the humanitiesStories By DateFull Monthly Archive Posted at 02:03 PM ET, 03/07/2012By Jacqueline Trescott

For a century, the voyage and sinking of the RMS Titanic luxury liner has fascinated people around the world.

And the National Geographic Society has taken a lead in exploring every detail about the ship and its doomed voyage and the investigation and discovery of the shipwreck.

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Market Roundup: March 10-11

A taste of what will be at area farmers markets this week:

At Saturday’s Falls Church Farmers Market:

Cavanna Pasta: beef, spinach and cheese ravioli; cannelloni; lasagna.

Cibola Farms: bison prime cuts (loin roast, tenderloin and standing rib roast).

Endless Summer Harvest: lettuces; salad greens.

At Saturday’s FreshFarm Market in Silver Spring:

Atwater’s Bakery: chocolate-cherry bread; Irish brown bread.

Chicano Sol: baby kale.

Evensong Farm: organic beef.

Quaker Valley Orchards: Boston head lettuce; frozen blueberries and blackberries.

At Sunday’s FreshFarm Market at Dupont Circle:

Black Rock Orchard: Asian pears.

Clear Spring Creamery: milk.

Spring Valley Farm and Orchard: spinach.

The Farm at Sunnyside: celery root.

Toigo Orchards: spicy and mild micro greens.

At Sunday’s Takoma Park Farmers Market:

Atwater’s Bakery: breads; scones; muffins; cookies.

Audia’s Farm: homemade jams; dried herbs; spice mixes.

Black Rock Orchard: 12 kinds of apples; cider.

Smith Meadows: black bean and beef chili; Tuscan bean soup.

Twin Springs Fruit Farm: Middle Eastern cucumbers.

See our lists of local farmers markets and Community-Supported Agriculture farms.

Search for seasonal recipes in our Recipe Finder.

If you have a new market or see information that needs to be corrected in our farmers market listings, e-mail krystalr

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Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Mitt Romney’s new pet name for Ann: ‘Heavyweight champion’

Raul Fernandez picks up Joe Robert’s gloves as chairman of Fight for ChildrenHey, isn’t that...?: JaVale McGee at SaxQuoted: Jenna Bush on the famous tongue shotSteve Bridges, professional George W. Bush impersonator, dies at 48 (video)Entries By CategoryCelebvocateFirst FamilyHeyIn other news...LovePartiesPoliticsQuotedRead ThisSurreal EstateUpdateWhite House Correspondents' Association DinnerWhite House State DinnerStories By DateFull Monthly Archive Posted at 04:00 AM ET, 03/06/2012By The Reliable Source

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