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In memory of King Curtis, murdered 42 years ago today

It’s a nice, small brownstone with ornate gates on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, just two blocks from Central Park. A young Tom Cruise used to live in the building, as did Robert Downey Jr., when he was with Sarah Jessica Parker. But the front stoop at 50 W. 86th St. holds a tragic memory. The sax player King Curtis bought this eight-apartment building in 1971, just after he got off a tour with Aretha Franklin.

Inshallah They Find Him - by Marianela D'Aprile

When I started using Twitter more than eleven years ago there was a little star button that turned a golden yellow when you pressed it. This feature was called a “favorite.” I took “faving” a tweet literally and only pressed the little star when I really thought that tweet was among my favorite tweets I had ever seen.  When Twitter changed the “fave” represented by a gold star to a “like” represented by a red heart, I changed my button-pressing rule to: if I laugh at something, I have to like it.

Inviting Users for Content Recommendation Beta + Advertising Opportunity on Scrolller

Hi Cody! We are working on these features to make sure scrolller can exist for a long time as an independent service. You are right that scrolller is a great way to view content from Reddit. We owe much of our success to that fact alone and that much of these new features do nothing to make that core function better, but you are overlooking the fact that all of these are important to get people to upload their own fresh new content to Scrolller.

Is Carrie Just a Huge Jerk?

Tap here for Back Row’s full archive of And Just Like Thatrecaps. This episode wanted to be about balancing the pressures of middle age, both personal and professional, with children. However, the episode was really about how Carrie can be a huge jerk. We see Charlotte, LTW, Aidan, and Miranda all try to figure out how to come to a new normal with their families. Meanwhile, Carrie is mostly left to eat zucchini chips, decorate her apartment, and ignore her everyone’s problems but her own.

Is Family Life a Fun Suck?

Dear Molly, I feel like a female Benjamin Button and it’s giving me anxiety. If you asked me 2 years ago if I wanted a family and a house in the suburbs I’d have said “YES.” I was much more mature then. Fast forward two years I make a lot more money at my job which affords me to look better, live in a fun city, pursue all the hobbies I’ve always wanted, go out partying and date more men!