A beginner again

Golf Things Considered column by John Rogers
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I recently started fooling around with a keyboard. I say “fooling around” because it would not be fair to say that I’m playing music, or anything that even vaguely recalls music, except when I deftly push the demo button and crank out selections from “Ave Maria” to “Camptown Races.” Read more

Winter in the Mid-Atlantic

Golf Things Considered column by John Rogers
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Everything, including golf in January, is different in the Mid-Atlantic region. In this clump of misfit states stuck somewhere between New England and Deep South, even the grass on our courses is different. People who study such things call this a “transition zone,” which is a fancy way of saying that only certain grasses normally prosper here – the kind of grasses nobody wants to play golf on. Go north of here, and your spikes will tear up Bent grass. Go south and your ball gets buried in Bermuda. Read more

The Mayor For Life

Column by Max Friedman

Like a supervampire in a John Carpenter horror film, you can put criminal and civil stakes through the heart of Mayor For Life Marion Barry of Washington, D.C., but he keeps rising from the dead, and people seem to think that this is fine. Read more