Two movies you mustn’t miss this Christmas: ‘The Great Beauty’ (‘La Grande Bellezza’) and ‘Nebraska’. Superficially the two have much in common. Both take men late in…
We came into Chicago – one of my favorite cities – a couple of days early for the US Forum on Sustainability and Responsible Investment. We had a…
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…
Does Whitey Bulger have a secret passion unknown to his chroniclers and fabulists? Yes, and I know what it is. *** Saturday, I bought Whitey Bulger, the…
‘The Harlem Shake’? Until this afternoon, I’d missed this current teen craze. Indulging my prurient interest and my reflexive desire to crticise the rising generation, I did…
‘I’m excited about being a Zip.’ So said disgraced former Ohio State football coach, Jim Tressel when, last February, he became an administrator at the University of Akron. …
Few casual visitors to the Twin Cities will find their way to Litchfield, Minnesota, 65 miles to the northwest. But this lovely town on the prairie’s edge preserves…