the answer to one of the riddles is “An old woman whipping her cat for catching mice on a Sunday.” Thankfully, the short rhyming riddle below is at the more sublime end of the scale—so can ...

This is another puzzle taken from a 1927 collection of word games compiled by the American author and academic LeBaron Russell Briggs called Riddles in Rhyme. As that title would suggest, the ...

Over the past few weeks, the singer-songwriter quietly shared pictures and screengrabs from a phone he stopped using in 2015 In a new note, Sheeran explained that when he turned his old phone back ...

The lobby is outfitted with various esoteric, old-timey objects including vintage suitcases and a ventriloquist puppet. Pass through red velvet curtains and you’ll find the small main show space.

It will soon be serving its last drop. A 400-year-old tea and coffee shop is slated to shut its doors this month. The spot in Amsterdam, called ‘t Zonnetje, which means “little sun” in Dutch ...

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old-timey obsession with tariffs. The cowardly president was quick to blame the bad economic news on former President Joe Biden, because, as we’ve learned over the past decade, nothing is ever ...

There is an alt-timeline in which Rust, writer-director Joel Souza’s pulpy and pathos-fueled Western, is just another tale of an outlaw in his autumn years. It’s simply the latest entry in a ...

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The team’s outlets have been tweaked in at least a couple of ways. First, the team is deploying an old-timey strategy in having the centre come down low (with speed) and take a handoff from the ...