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How to Perform Acupuncture

Those who can’t do, learn how. The latest installment in our series where amateurs apprentice with experts, NICOLE PASULKA tries her hand at needlework. (The Novice | October 13, 2009)

How to Play Magic: The Gathering

Those who can’t do, learn. As part of our series in which the clueless apprentice with the experts, MATT ROBISON learns his lands, creatures, and spells from Magic great Jon Finkel. (The Novice | August 18, 2009)

How to Hunt

Those who can’t do, learn. As part of our series in which the clueless apprentice with the experts, NICOLE PASULKA gets licensed, wakes up very early, and tracks turkeys in the woods. (The Novice | July 1, 2009)

How to Trade Options

Those who can’t do, learn. As part of our series in which the clueless apprentice with the experts, NICOLE PASULKA trades at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and tries to keep up with the buying and selling of educated speculation. (The Novice | February 11, 2009)

How to Embalm a Body

Those who can’t do, learn. As part of our series in which the clueless apprentice with the experts, NICOLE PASULKA visits a funeral home in New Jersey to learn, hands-on, how to prepare someone for an eternal rest. (The Novice | October 7, 2008)

How to Blow Glass

Those who can’t do, learn. As part of our series in which the clueless apprentice with the experts, LAUREN FREY visits a glass-blowing studio in Brooklyn to pursue her lifelong dream of playing with molten material. (The Novice | September 21, 2007)

How to Give a Tattoo

Those who can’t do, learn. Inaugurating our new series in which the clueless apprentice with the experts, NICOLE PASULKA picks up a long-sought skill from Brooklyn tattoo artist Duke Riley—who also plays canvas. (The Novice | August 9, 2007)


TODAY’S FEATURE

Test Post

Rather than shopping or a pottery workshop, blogging shows promise as a fun, “couple-y” activity. THE GOLEM writes the entry that took a thousand years.

OUR MAN IN BOSTON

Question, Questions, Questions?

Padgett Powell's bebop solo of a book is 164 pages of interrogatory--that's right, questions.

INFINITE SUMMER

Dracula

Sponsored by TMN, the online book club reads the vampire novel that sired them all.
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