It started with a phone call. From a guy named Tony. I knew him because he dated my friend Marcie. Anyway his brother was going to be in town for [ … ]
Category: Entertainment
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea: The Original Magical Mystery Tour
Jules Verne wrote almost ninety books before his death in 1905, age 77—and the never-to-be-forgotten Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is still fantasy at its best. In 1954, Disney [ … ]
I want on Board!
Claymation is an abandoned art form. It does not pay the bills. My clay-animated depictions of raw sex and violence might get me street cred at the film festivals, but [ … ]
Sports business – Steroid issue has little juice with fans
Published: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 12:22 AM EST E-mail this story | Print this page Major League Baseball will find out soon whether its image has been hurt by the [ … ]
Fear of Flying – With Apologies to Erica Jong
We are all scared of air travel. Face it, we are. And if we say we aren’t, we’re lying… or under the influence of any number of a variety of [ … ]
The Adventure of the Agitated Anchor
It was an evening in the summer of ’04 when a sudden commotion on the stairs announced that a client had arrived unexpectedly to consult with my friend, Mr. Sherlock [ … ]
Monkeyman
Whatever happened to the monkey man? I remember the short-lived hysteria he plagued upon the people of India, bounding from rooftop to rooftop terrorizing the threadbare villages, resulting in the [ … ]
Ice-Fishing: One Man’s Pursuit of Manliness
There are two groups of people in Northern Minnesota – those that hunt, fish, and own snow-mobiles, and those that do not. The ones that belong to the first camp [ … ]
Neil Young’s ‘greendale’ Puts ‘Green’ Production to the Test
BY: BRIAN R. HOOK Legendary rock musician Neil Young who once sang “Look at Mother Nature on the run in the 1970s,” on his classic apocalyptic album “After the Goldrush” [ … ]
THE LUCK OF LEWIS
The night was practically enchanted. Traffic was light, I managed to find free parking two blocks away from the theater, and it was a crisp and clear evening. I [ … ]