Norway Parks and Recreation has flooded the Ice rink for the winter. The rink needs time to set up and fully freeze. Please stay off the ice until we post that it is open. We are currently looking for Volunteers to help us keep the Bruce Fox warming hut open this winter. For more information […]

A bit of autobiography here at the start: I grew up a stone’s throw from Hershey, Pennsylvania and my current full-time employment comes from Hershey’s Chocolate World in Times Square. Chocolate, its production, and its sales are all a major part of my identity. So I view media related to Roald Dahl’s 1964 children’s book […]

Some years ago, the men where I go to church had a spaghetti dinner. It was an opportunity for us to enjoy a meal together and to socialize. Today, we’d use paper plates and plastic ware for such events, but back then, people brought plates, glasses, and silverware from home. After the meal, I was […]

This Japanese film is available in both “Subbed” and “Dubbed” versions. This review will focus on the “Dubbed” version with the English-language voice cast. Anime legend Hayao Miyazaki has come out of retirement for “The Boy and the Heron,” a sprawling fantasy with semiautobiographical elements. Surprisingly, it’s the more grounded elements that work better, maybe […]

This holiday season, I’m making a puddingstone list. Won’t you join me? There is a book called “Essays and Essay-Writing,” which is a collection of 78 charming opinion pieces, each written anonymously. The book was published in 1917 and is now in the public domain. Let me share the first paragraph of an unknown author’s […]

When the writers’ and actors’ strikes of 2023 forced several movies off the fall schedule, it was a pair of musicians who came to the rescue with two of the most heavily promoted concert movies of all time. ‘Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour’ got the box office through a rough patch back in October. Now […]

In grade school, I would spend hours plunking – with one finger – on an old, upright piano, creating tunes to go with my brilliant lyrics. The words, of course, weren’t as clever as I thought they were. In fact, they were terrible. But I didn’t know that, and so I wrote dozens, probably even […]

Ridley Scott’s “Napoleon” did rather well for itself over Thanksgiving weekend, opening in the #2 position at the domestic box office behind the second weekend of the new “Hunger Games.” A debut at #2 behind a not-particularly-beloved returning champion may not sound impressive, but my prediction was that it wouldn’t even finish in the top […]

In 2021, I did a computer project for my wife, taking a 50,000-word manuscript of hers and formatting it into a book. The book was made up of eight sections called signatures. Each signature consisted of four sheets of paper, printed on both sides and folded in the middle to create 16 numbered pages. The […]