What We Loved This Week: Calexico, Toronto FC in Coach and more

Eva Holland
After years of listening to other people’s celebrity-on-a-plane stories, I finally had my own in-flight star-spotting: I shared my flight home from New York City last weekend with the coaches and players from Toronto FC. Who knew pro athletes sometimes fly coach with the masses?

Jim Benning
I loved this mariachi-infused cover of Neil Young’s “Heart of Gold” by Calexico, which I just discovered while poking around YouTube:

Michael Yessis
Thanks to @MickPuck, who reintroduced me to this Short History of America:

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