I have touched on this several times over the years, but perhaps a refresher column is warranted. Let me answer the top five questions I am asked, which are: why don’t I write about news-worthy topics and current events, where do my ideas come from, how long does it take me to write a column, […]

After last week’s heavy, serious, ultraviolent “Civil War,” I needed a movie like the lighter, sillier, also ultraviolent “Abigail.” Is this film as intelligent and thought-provoking as last week’s offering – a film that still rules the box office, by the way? No. Is this film going to leave much of an impact on popular […]

“Civil War” presents one of the most intriguing premises of the year, maybe of the last several years: what if Texas and California were to secede from the United States and join forces to wage war against their former home country? In short, everyone would lose. The economy would tank so badly that $300 would […]

Imagine that instead of a planet orbiting around a star – like the Earth around the Sun – another star was orbiting it. And instead of one star circling the other, the two were orbiting each other, tumbling along like a couple of acrobats. Such stars exist and are called binary stars. People have known […]

‘Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire’ is really a tale of two movies. No, not a Godzilla movie and a King Kong movie, but rather a movie that follows the human characters and a movie that follows what the movie calls ‘Titans.’ The human portion is terrible, as is the human contribution to all American […]

My daughter, granddaughter, and I saw 42nd Street at Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School. We were pleased—amazed even—at the quality of the show. The acting, the dancing, and the singing were superb. The orchestra, the staging, the costumes, everything about the show was done well. And the audience responded with an abundance of laughter and […]

What if French (or Spanish or Polish or Korean) had 137 words? That’s it – just 137. In a week you could memorize the entire vocabulary. But with so few words, how could you say such things as Toto did not really care whether he was in Kansas or the Land of Oz so long […]