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Paul La Rosa
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CBS News/48 Hours writer & producer, book reviewer, haiku writer, struggling guitarist, lap swimmer
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Even in 2025, the wearing of masks can create problems. This week, I was sitting on a bench on a subway platform. On the opposite end was a much younger guy. Both of us reading our cell phones, as pe...
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August 22, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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August 19, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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Can you really change your personality? What do you think? open.substack.com/pub/paullaro...
Do we really change or just think we do?
Are we all just frozen in amber...
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August 18, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Springsteen Isn’t Who I Thought He Was www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/o...
Opinion | Springsteen Isn’t Who I Thought He Was
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August 7, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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July 30, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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How I stumbled into exploring a storage locker once owned by Nat Weiss, The Beatles' American lawyer. Inside was memorabilia & ephemera from Cat Stevens, James Taylor and Steve Forbert, among others. open.substack.com/pub/paullaro...
The storage locker...
Or how I was bequeathed a collection of rock memorabilia from The Beatles' American lawyer Nat Weiss
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July 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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We all have ghosts in our lives—good ones. open.substack.com/pub/paullaro...
July 14, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Puzzle #759
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July 9, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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Connections
Puzzle #758
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July 8, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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July 8, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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When the light was right and Schrafft girls roamed the earth :)
Hot town, summer in the city...
When the morning light hit just right and Schrafft's girls roamed the earth
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July 3, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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When the light was right and Schrafft girls roamed the earth :)
Hot town, summer in the city...
When the morning light hit just right and Schrafft's girls roamed the earth
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July 3, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Once Upon a Time in New York, there were egg creams, hunks of pastrami and dimes in postcards.

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Dimes in postcards...
Memories of "once upon a time" in New York
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May 29, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Next!

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Puzzle #718
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May 29, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Tough one:

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May 29, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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Just made it:

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May 28, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Kind of hard today:

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May 25, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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May 23, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Carry on

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May 20, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Done!

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May 18, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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May 18, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Play it loud:

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May 14, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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Jon Hamm's 'almost' sequel to "Mad Men"
In "Your Friends & Neighbors," Hamm has found a worthy role to follow Don Draper
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May 11, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Bodes well. Connections
Puzzle #699
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May 10, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Got the purple right off!

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May 7, 2025 at 12:18 PM