I’ve been listening to a lot of Bob Dylan. No, not his music though cuts come up on my playlists. But his Theme Time Radio Hour which I catch on…
I started out, this morning, to write a short rave for ‘Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins’, starring the wonderful Karen MacDonald, which runs at the Lyric…
Those who endured last spring’s epic snore, ‘Grand Budapest Hotel’ (2014), wondered why so many actors, so much CGI, to so little effect. They didn’t realise Wes Anderson had tried…
‘Folk Music & Farce; Show Tunes & Satire; Madness & Escape’: That’s ‘The Midnight Special’ which has run on WFMT in Chicago for 60 years this month. …
On December 5, 2012 Ohio State’s President, Gordon ‘Gaffer’ Gee decided to amuse the University’s Athletics Council[1] with war stories while the tape rolled. Six months later, thanks…
Jonathan Winters, the quintessential Ohioan, has died at 87. Comedian, actor and voice artist Jonathan Winters was versatile, emotional, complicated and Midwestern. Out of ill-fit, off-the-bargain-rack clothes…
My mother raised four sons (and their friends and dogs and rabbits…) in a rambling, wreck of a house in a small town with plenty of woods and fields surrounding…
Bennington, Vermont: Old First Church. 4/3/11 Updated: Jan. 11, 2012. What do Jack Benny, John D. Rockefeller and Robert Frost have in common? Each achieved greatness in a fiercely competitive…
If you’re looking to keep cool and be very entertained, go see Errol Morris’s ‘Tabloid’. Here are the spot-on first lines of Dana Stevens’s review on Slate: Errol…