Attention any of you who aren't skittish around a needle: The New York Blood Center needs your arms. The center had to cancel all of its drives on Sunday because of the storm, which means it lost out on about 2,000 donations. more ›

There's an excellent Vows column in this week's NY Times Weddings & Celebrations. It's the one for Fran Boyd and Donnie Andrews, two Baltimore residents whose difficult lives were the basis for the HBO dramas The Corner and The Wire. Boyd and Andrews were featured in a page one story in the Times last week, and the Vows column explains more of how they met and how they supported each other during prison sentences, while overcoming addiction, and as they tried to put their lives back together. more ›

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