Scrabble Parties Rise In Los Angeles Homes
In Los Angeles homes, Scrabble bashes use homemade invitations and exotic prizes. Hosts pair players into two person teams, keep rounds under 45 minutes, and reference The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary to challenge words while buzzed word misfires occur.
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Los Angeles
John D. Williams Jr
National Scrabble Association
Williams
Scrabble Qs and quirky words trivia tale
The piece riffs on Scrabble strategy focusing on the risky 10-point Q tile and offers a quirky list of Q words and variations. It playfully notes rare terms like QAT QANAT and QINDAR while mentioning transliterations and obscure spellings from different languages.
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Middle East
Scrabble Strategy: Plurals, Prefixes, and Bingos
Learn common prefixes and suffixes to use tiles efficiently. Build toward bingos by playing all seven tiles, scoring big bonuses and creating multiple words each turn. Use strategic S additions only when they yield at least eight extra points.
Far Away probes lunacy of war in Cleveland stage
Daryl Churchill’s Far Away at Cleveland Play House offers a surreally stark critique of war's reach across nations and minds. Through a child’s awakening and an older Joan, the play traces allegiance, moral cost, and the absurdity of ideological warfare amid a military state.
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Daryl Churchill
Atlantic Ocean
Cleveland Play House
Baxter
Churchill
Joan
Angela Holecko
Harper
Derdriu Ring
Holecko
Ring
Cat Maddox
Todd
Matthew Joslyn
Dear Amy advice columns on relationships and trust
A jumble of reader questions covers a grandmother’s attachment to a young girl in a son’s dating life, an affair and breakup with divorce risks, lies in a three year relationship, and guidance on rebuilding trust. Amy urges caution with children around dating, seeking professional help for affairs, and evaluating trust in partnerships.
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Amy
Megan
Mecarr
Finn
Teenager's presidential dream garners broad support
Dear Abby columns fan the flames of a 13 year old Abigat van Buren’s bid for the presidency as readers from Rochester to Lakewood, Midwest City, and Bedford praise ambition. Letters cite Eleanor Roosevelt quotes and landmark women leaders to reinforce belief in young woman’s political future.
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United States
Abby
Eleanor Roosevelt
Rochester, N.Y
Arnold Schwarzenegger
California
Jim Donovan
Golda Meir
Israel
Indira Gandhi
India
Margaret Thatcher
England
U.S
Condoleezza Rice
Sen
Hilary Clinton
America
Bedford
N.H
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Abigat
van Buren
Jim
Carolyn Augustine
Lakewood, Wash
Carolyn
Jeffrey A. Thompson
Midwest City
Okla
Lt. Col. Thompson
Dear Abby
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