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(Photo by David Berding — Getty Images) After missing 52 games, Karl-Anthony Towns made his triumphant return to the Minnesota Timberwolves’ lineup in their game against the Atlanta Hawks on Wednesday night. In a thrilling finish, Towns got the ball with just seven seconds left and the Timberwolves down by…

In the cultural gem that is The Office, the first episode of Season 9 sees the unstable, wannabe-tech-bro Ryan Howard following his on-again, off-again girlfriend Kelly from Scranton to southwestern Ohio, which he’s convinced is going to be the next Silicon Valley. “They call it the Silicon Prairie,” he says…

I knew you as a place we visited – not home, not a voice that put me to sleep. Just a room behind a stamps store in a forsaken part of Hoboken. We arrived, my two sisters, and I, and the woman you still called your wife – not daughters, not permanent fixtures of a transient life. Just overly dressed children, sitting on boxes which you referred to as chairs. And I remember the silence – not subtle pauses between passionate words,

She and I got off to a rough start. In the late 1980’s, she just made me feel paranoid. Until recently, it was just too dicey for us to routinely collaborate with what was percieved as a neancing public enemy. Too much at risk; criminal charges, mandatory drug tests at…

“If I come back and my lights are on, you need to get to the bathrooms quick,” said the Park Ranger. He was talking to us out the window of a twenty-year-old truck, the bed containing an assortment of shovels, rakes, dented buckets, and hay. …