The snooty restaurant review has always amused and bored me. My advice to any affronted reviewer who was not properly greeted, or gasp, received an appetizer along with the main [ … ]
Sporting politics: Bush, Kerry in play
By Evan Weiner | Special to the Sentinel If virtually all of the presidential-tracking polls are correct, Republican President George W. Bush and Democratic challenger John Kerry are not only [ … ]
“Taking the Lead: A Young Director Speaks with Veteran Teachers about Leadership”
The first year and a half of my teaching career has led me through a lot of struggles and an equal amount of self-evaluation. It is difficult to avoid comparing [ … ]
The Little American Nudes
Tom Wesselmann at the University Art Museum, CSULB In 1961, Matisse’s Blue Nude occupied the artist’s attentions. In 1962, there was collage in the more classical sense of the Cubists, [ … ]
Tobey, Mark
Jack Rutberg Fine Arts Mark Tobey has the eye of Leonardo. Accidents of painting make things he sends to Hans Burkhardt, sometimes helped out by himself. A paint-soaked sponge, framed. [ … ]
Are You a Desperate Housewife?
The plan was to watch the first two minutes of “Desperate Housewives.” It’s enough time to confirm my instincts that this is the latest hyped up prime time soap that [ … ]
Peace on Earth
Several American soldiers are walking through an airport terminal with tired, confused, and sad expressions etched into their faces, when a young lady stands proudly and brings her hands together [ … ]
When will we learn
When the PARADE, a section in the Miami Herald’s Sunday Edition, about three weeks ago, asked him what he would do to make a better America, Norman Mailer wrote that “television [ … ]
Women are Mothers, Not Soldiers
Women should not be drafted because they have babies!!! That is the absolute number one reason. 18-26 is great baby making time for a woman’s body. Past 30 there [ … ]
Free Speech
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or of the right [ … ]