I didn't realize until I was watching Broadway Rose's new streaming production of the musical DADDY LONG LEGS how much I'd been needing a show that would whisk me away to another world, provide some ...

Daddy-long-legs, which look like spiders with thin legs much longer than their bodies, are generally seen as harmless. But according to many versions of a popular rumor, daddy-long-legs are actually ...

Jerusha Abbott is the “Oldest Orphan in the John Grier Home” until a mysterious benefactor decides to send her to college to be educated as a writer. Required to write him a letter once a month, she ...

Daddy long-legs—spider-like arachnids technically known as “harvestmen”—are already plenty unnerving, with their too-long-to-be-real limbs, jerky movements, and habit of clustering into a horrible, ...

You don’t need to traverse the rough side of New York City to understand what living there is like. Just push play on this, the fourth studio release (there was also a roaring live set), from the Big ...

The arachnids, which are not spiders, were thought to have only two eyes, compared with many more on spiders. By Veronique Greenwood Guilherme Gainett, then a biologist at the University of ...

Scientists have identified genes that make a harvestman arachnid’s appendages able to twirl like a monkey’s tail. By Veronique Greenwood The harvestman makes its way through the mossy woodland on ...

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Nearly everybody either knows or imagines the story of Daddy Long Legs. Mary Pickford and Marshall Neilan, back in 1919, made a silent hit of it for First National. Fox, in remaking the picture into a ...