Fowl weather report - The Christian Science Monitor
27 May 2012, 1:31 pm
A new generation of spring chickens, fuzzy and endearingly incompetent, arrived at our New England home six weeks ago. They are replacements. During the hungry winter months, a red-tailed hawk visited. Hawks are admirable in their own way.

Quirky is cool - deccanchronicle.com
27 May 2012, 11:44 am
Hers is the kind of work that makes you stop and observe, sit back and perhaps smile. There's something endearingly familiar yet distant, in a comforting sense, about P.C. Malavika’s art. In the ‘quirk is cool’ school of thought she is an emerging ...

Arena Stage’s ‘Music Man’ is Iowa stubborn and Washington smooth - Washington Post
24 May 2012, 8:16 pm
Teamed with Burke Moses in Arena Stage’s endearingly melodic revival of “The Music Man,” this quintessential Broadway songbird, with skin like peaches and voice like cream, ensures that we’re solidly in the corner of Marian the Librarian ...

Film: Movie Review: Moonrise Kingdom - A.V. Club
23 May 2012, 6:58 pm
When Kara Hayward steals away for a romantic camping adventure with her endearingly awkward 12-year-old suitor (Jared Gilman), she brings along an impractical array of supplies, including a portable record player and a cachet of illustrated books with ...

Now Hear This: Reviews of new albums - calgaryherald.com
22 May 2012, 1:16 pm
Even on a record so chock full of guest stars — everyone from Justin Bieber to Pitbull put in time — surprises are few and far between on these endearingly danceable tracks. But what makes Dirty Bass so agreeable is not that it pushes hip-hop anywhere ...

A Tidal Wave of Data on Elephant Seals - New York Times
21 May 2012, 10:21 pm
Researchers from the University of California, Santa Cruz, who started tagging large numbers of the endearingly loud and ungainly creatures at Año Nuevo Island in 2004, report their findings in the journal PLoS One. This study, which focuses on ...

Girls”-Watch: Hannah at Home - The New Yorker
21 May 2012, 8:38 am
A corollary is that Hannah didn’t have a miserable time in high school despite her obvious idiosyncrasies: we quickly learn that she went to the kind of school where even kids with very different interests and temperaments found her, um, endearingly quirky.

Dominique Sachse & Nick Florescu wed by Joel Osteen amid a sea of TV news stars and social swells - culturemap.com
20 May 2012, 6:33 pm
It was Joel Osteen's first wedding outside of tying the knot for a handful of family members and the pastor, who preaches to millions via television from Lakewood Church every Sunday, was endearingly nervous as he stood before the gathering of 150 that had ...

You Can’t Take it’ endearingly daffy - Worcester Telegram & Gazette
20 May 2012, 1:18 pm
SOUTHBRIDGE — The Vanderhof/Sycamore/Carmichael family tree in Moss Hart’s and George S. Kaufman’s “You Can’t Take It With You” is full of exceedingly strange branches and one relatively normal branch trying oh-so-hard to keep the ...

TV Show ‘Girls’ Adds to the Muddle on HPV Testing - New York Times Blogs
14 May 2012, 11:12 pm
Hannah, the spunky central character in the edgy new HBO series “Girls,” is a creative and endearingly naïve 24-year-old bumbling fearlessly through postcollege life. She works for years at an unpaid internship that never turns into a job ...