‘Make America Great Again’, Donald Trump’s slogan, has many ancestors. I found another insurgent candidate with resonant mottos in Guy de la Bedoyere’s wonderful The Real Lives of Roman Britain…
Violence at political rallies? Creating apparent threats? Very old stuff. I happened to read the other night descriptions of some rallies when the violence was real. In one, a Republican…
The lovely long shot at the start of 45 Years (2015) shows Kate Mercer (Charlotte Rampling) walking her Alsatian in early spring fog along a lane bordered by a line…
The Imperial War Museum in London has just opened Lee Miller: A Woman’s War which will run through April 24, 2016. The sterling reviews suggest it’s a show worth traveling…
Since early summer, children and families falling through holes in the safety net have kept reporters busy in Massachusetts and Vermont. Neglect and murder, the horror stories never end. Nor…
In early fall 1967, my then girl friend convinced me to join her in ushering a concert by Judy Collins. A roommate a couple of years earlier had sometimes played…
Because there’s so much fresh in print and pixels, I don’t reread books. MASH (1968) is now one of the exceptions to my rule. I laughed out loud when I…
Two black slate headstones (pictured below) in the Jaffrey, NH, Old Burying Ground look from a distance just like others from the turn of the 19th century. But below the conventional…
Last week, fire gutted the Century Inn in Scenery Hill, Washington County, Pennsylvania. Built between 1788 and 1794, it was still serving great country cooking three years ago when I…
London’s Savoy Theatre will always be associated with the musical comedies of Gilbert & Sullivan which built it. Their topsy-turvy had to be transporting because the Savoy’s seats were designed…
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