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…
Considering the US through the prism of stories in the Bahamian press reveals facets of the flawed, cracking diamond that is our country. Drug Wars Uber Alles The Punch, The…
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…
The time: 11:30 a.m., Friday, Nov. 21, 2014. The place: the CVS on Summer Street in Boston’s Downtown Crossing next to the Red Line station. The cast: A 68-year-old male…
‘What a pretentious title’, I thought as I started the BBC 4 documentary, ‘Johnny Cash: The Last Great American’ (2004). By the end of this thoughtful, fast-paced hour,…
‘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. …
John ‘Hitman’ Martorano (a/k/a: ‘the Enforcer’, ‘the Executioner’) has confessed. He has a heart which Whitey Bulger broke by becoming an FBI snitch. In The New York…
Nine months and four days after we turned our Vermont home over to our contractor, Gary Daden, we returned to our gutted-and-rehabbed house. During the renovation process, we worked closely…