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It took me a long time to get used to putting my byline on a newspaper piece.
I imagine people who read crime books, of both the fiction and nonfiction variety, favor the genre for a handful of reasons, most of which would make...
Hollywood, that curious and gelatinous beast, loves artists -- until it doesn't.
When I was a sophomore in high school, my American history teacher was also my baseball coach.
Earlier this year, I programmed a film series for LifeQuest of Arkansas, a nonprofit dedicated to lifelong learning.
My father was a military man who viewed John Wayne with skepticism, in part because of Wayne’s controversial decision not to serve in World War II...
When I wrote about the first season of HBO’s “The White Lotus” in 2023, I invoked Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s 1842 poem “The Lotos-Eaters,”...
Sherman White died at the age of 82 in August 2011 in the same Black working-class town in which he'd been brought up.
"Some people will say that words like scum and rotten are wrong for Objective Journalism--which is true, but they miss the point.
"When you're growing up in a small town, you say no one famous ever came from here."
You remember Flounder.Aka Kent Dorfman, the hapless pledge played by Stephen Furst in "National Lampoon's Animal House" (1978).
On April 9, 1925, Irish newspaper The Belfast Telegraph ran a shocking headline: "Babe Ruth, American baseball champion and national hero of every...
". . . he's the worst singer I've ever heard.
"... he's the worst singer I've ever heard. It's not that he's off key--he has no relation to key. He also has no phrasing, no dynamics, no energy,...