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Published Tuesday, July 12, 2005 by seanlmccarthy | E-mail this post

SIDEKICKS AND SUDOKU: Have you checked out the Boston Globe's new Sidekick section yet? An interesting move by The Hub's other daily (we call it the Boring Broadsheet) that began Monday, it's a Mon-Sat tabloid that packages daily TV listings and comics with that paper's daily picks and other odds and ends that used to appear in the daily features section (called Living/Arts there). Not sure what they're trying to do, since they still have a daily features section. But the more curious play is the Globe's introduction of Sudoku as if it's a new thing. We've been running the numbers puzzles for a few weeks already. And USA Today jumped on the bandwagon this week, too, with an explanation.