Meme police
MIT’s ROFLcon, a gathering of the Web’s biggest names, decides what will make you laugh and cry. I just woke up from some sort of bizarre dream. I was at MIT. There was a weirdo painting nudes of President Obama on a unicorn. Several adults were dressed like domestic animals. PLAY IT AGAIN: Internet tastemakers like Keyboard Cat’s Brad O’Farrell are subverting popular culture while influencing …

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“Bat Boy” opens tonight in Dedham at Nobles
Noble and Greenough freshman Shanti Gonzales, of Dedham, acts in the school’s spring musical, which is “about a half-boy/half-bat creature who is discovered in a cave near Hope Falls, West Virginia.” And she is psyched to be in the show, she tells the Transcript. “Bat Boy,” is by Keythe Farley and Brian Flemming and music and lyrics by Laurence O’Keefe.

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Tough Love
Rock star Courtney Love bounces back with a new album

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Brian’s blog
What if the Tories fail to secure any Scottish seats?

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Nevada teen is coping wellwith ongoing cancer treatments
While her classmates are counting the days until they get out of school for summer break, Nevada High School junior Kaitlyn Gull is counting about the same amount of days until she gets out of Mary Greeley Medical Center, a place she has not been away from for more than a day since Feb. 17.

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Nipomo sixth-graders: These are our heroes
Editor’s Note: The Adobe Press is recognizing our kids’ heroes throughout April, the Month of the Child and Child Abuse Prevention Month, by publishing essays children created for this year’s Nipomo Youth Coalition Heroes Recognition Project.

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