So many people have their vintage panties in a twist about the apparent lack of historical accuracy in Baz Luhrmann’s long-awaited interpretation of The Great Gatsby, the novel every high school student in the United States has read. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel has been made into… Read more »
-fine arts architecture has left the building One son loves opera, studies Italian to better appreciate it, and has sung it at the highest collegiate level (in the chorus). This spring he sang in Verdi’s Falstaff, where at the end of the production… Read more »
Everyone of a certain age remembers “In Living Color” – the great 1990s weekly comedy TV show that helped launch the careers of the Wayans family – Kim, Shawn, Marlon, and Dwayne as well as Jim Carrey, Jamie Foxx, and David Alan Grier. In… Read more »
As some of you may know, having a job where you are stationed in front of a computer all day awards you with plenty of time to surf the internet. Every week, great content becomes popular for a couple of days, only to be quickly replaced… Read more »
Throughout history, the quest to define what it means to be a woman has been no easy task. The guidelines of femininity have forever been as unpredictable and fleeting as a New England winter forecast. Not much has changed from this standpoint, a fact… Read more »
There’s been a great deal of reporting on what I’ll call the peanuts phenomenon within the past week – people working for very small amounts of money, or for free, in order to advance their careers or gain exposure. It’s more or less… Read more »
Words have meanings. “Stuff” is both verb and noun, and both its uses have a generically unpleasant sensibility. Beloved icons of past eras are neither “stuff,” nor do we “stuff” them anywhere. But the last 50 years have created more stuffed stuff than… Read more »
The Gaggle: How the Men You Know Will Help You Find the Love You Want, a self-help book on dating, relationships, and love by Jessica Massa, casts off traditional dating myths and lore by offering a guide on how to view and inhabit what… Read more »
Surface and Substance Veneer and Core Order and the Ad Hoc Materiality and Abstraction Sculpture and Craft On a brief surgical insertion into Venice, I experienced a series of insights caused by unique circumstances of construction, wear, and environment. Just as our… Read more »
The mass shooting that took place in Sandy Hook, Connecticut earlier this month, one of the worst in United States history and the seventh that took place in 2012, has brought gun control to the forefront of American consciousness. President Obama has promised… Read more »
This November morning, a three-day-old headline was still circulating above the fold on the website of the French paper, Le Monde. The French, or the French news industry at least, are rather interested in our political nature despite what certain puss-filled warts and… Read more »
This was supposed to be a beer review. What happened? She has not yet begun to run up the nostrils and into the strange vaudeville act that inhabits a bent mind. A vaudeville act with emotions much like caricatures of certain late night… Read more »
It is easy to point out the slight Greek tragedy of a moderating attempt that Jim Lehrer made during Wednesday night’s debate in Colorado between President Barack Obama and Republican candidate Mitt Romney. Jim Lehrer, noted for his work on PBS NewsHour, is… Read more »
Few things quietly and unconsciously drive me to act in a bizarre spaced-out state the way that fruit flies do. In my apartment the fruit fly’s evil happens to be necessary. Necessary not because I need the brainless flying dot-puzzle rejects, but because… Read more »
I recently heard a passing stat on NPR that could not be ignored. A recent science show noted that “dark matter” was 96% of the universe. A quick interwebnets check noted that a book, The 4 Percent Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the… Read more »
Earlier last week an oddness took place on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe“. An uncommonly aggressive line of questioning for the morning show was levied at Reince Priebus, the Republican National Committee chairman, by MSNBC’s Chris Matthews. It was a line of questioning that involved… Read more »
In February 2008, then presidential candidate Barack Obama said something that was at once disconcerting and familiar: “We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.” Disconcerting because the words assume mass disconnection from ourselves. Familiar, because the disembodiment from where we actually… Read more »
Another Change.org crusade, this round led by Hearst heir Victoria Hearst. Hearst can’t catch a break. Shortly after the dust settled (more or less) around the Seventeen/Photoshop controversy, a new crusade against another female-centric title (Cosmopolitan) began. According to a press statement released this… Read more »
The New York Times Magazine recently held an essay contest for its column “The Ethicist”, inquiring “Why Is It Ethical to Eat Meat?” The deciding panel chose five finalists and one winner, Jay Bost, a vegan turned conscientious meat-eater, who argued that there are… Read more »
YOU ARE A YOUNGISH, MODERN AMERICAN WOMAN. You are great. You are fabulous. You are independent, smart and respected. You are single. Five years down the line, you are still single. Five years after that you are recuperating from a passionate, albeit… Read more »
by Chris the Ghostbuster Image courtesy of GAC Design IncHandmadeFishHooks.com Chris investigates the Connecticut legend, “The Hook” in Seymour. And yes, it was a dark and stormy night… by Chris the Ghostbuster On a dark and stormy night, a young couple parks their car outside… Read more »
by Chris the Ghostbuster Chris the Ghostbuster is back! Join him on a trek into the old town of Bara-Hack in Pomfret, Connecticut. by Chris the Ghostbuster Bonfires burning bright, pumpkin faces in the night…damn right, it’s Halloween. Ghostbusting is back with a vengeance, just… Read more »