The worse the world gets , the more I devote myself to following basketball. As the NBA opens its '25-'26 season tonight I've been thinking about my lifelong Sixers fandom. For better or worse, I've been a 76ers fan for as long as I can remember. I love how my friend Jon Forstein summarized my professional and personal identity when I spoke to his video production class earlier this year. One of my first Sixers fan memories was falling asleep to a game on the radio and cryi

On the third Sunday of every month, some model railroad enthusiasts get together and run a model train yard as seriously as if the trains were full sized. The moment Lynn and I arrived, it felt like we stepped into an episode of How To With John Wilson that was set decorated by Wes Anderson's production team . I loved seeing how dedicated these guys were to such a tactile, analog craft and that the museum has been in operation for 80 years (that's basically 160 years if you