Canning To Remember The Past, Welcome The Future
I don’t remember my first meeting with the man who will become my husband — he probably doesn’t, either. Not …
TV Check-In: The Fall’s Early Winners And Losers
Now that we’re a few weeks into the fall season, things are starting to settle. We’ve had a handful of …
A ‘Marriage Plot’ Full Of Intellectual Angst
Writer Jeffrey Eugenides laments the fact that he was born too late to write a novel about marriage in the …
Modern Horror Defined By Edgy Realism Of The 1970s
By the late 1960s, classic horror movies pioneered by Vincent Price and Boris Karloff had run out of steam. What …
It’s A Bloody Business, Being A Demon
It’s October, which means the country’s supply of fake cobwebs is getting dangerously low. The reason, of course, are the …
A Lost Little Girl Looms Large In ‘Private Property’
There is no greater horror to a child than standing out. Being different means being easy prey. When your daughter …
The Wait Wait Snack Pack
A weekend installment of the online play-at-home news quiz. 1.) Ex-Godfather’s Pizza CEO Herman Cain, the leading GOP presidential contender …
A Highly Logical Christopher Columbus
On-Air Challenge: Identify errors of fact, logic and grammar in a short essay on Christopher Columbus. Last Week’s Challenge: Think …
Quest For The Holy Doughnut, And The First Dessert
OK, forget the vegetables. It’s time for dessert. And not just any dessert … the oldest dessert in New York …
An Ancient Tale Of War, An Ode To Epic Mythology
I bought David Malouf’s ninth novel, Ransom, when it was released last year, then had to buy a second copy …
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