Broadway star Audra McDonald is about to launch a national tour; here’s how not to decorate for her welcome party … Thomas Jefferson (well, scholar and radio host Clay Jenkinson channeling Thomas Jefferson) expounds on patriotic decorum … Get ready, people, for a playlist from indie-supergroup People Get Ready … A scoop of new Spoon … Blankets that broadcast your mood to fellow flyers … One man’s violent vendetta against disco … The national pride of eating sheep innards stuffed in a stomach and stabbed with a knife … Reuniting a musician with his only recording … And avoiding scams with Priceonomics.