I don’t think there’s been a tribute to Mike Nichols over the past two days that hasn’t included the phrase “Hollywood legend.” I will not break code here. The man was a Hollywood legend. Born Mikhail Igor Peschkowsky in Berlin in … Continue reading
It’s one of the most asked questions of our time. A simple survey. And most people have an answer. Pepsi or Coke? It’s been a couple decades since I gave serious thought to the question. I was a Coke man. … Continue reading
Sometimes you just can’t make this stuff up. Okay, so this news has been around for some time, but I’m hearing it more and more these days so here it is. ’Round these parts we’ve got this subway/train system called … Continue reading
Big news tonight from the University of Notre Dame. No, not football but basketball sweet basketball. Tonight from South Bend the Irish host the boys from my alma mater, the famous Bearcats of Binghamton University. So what’s an Irish Bearcat … Continue reading
I’ve seen the news in several places from several different sources backed up by various scientists and I think we can now conclude: your tastebuds really are different while flying the friendly skies. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany … Continue reading
Ah, November, chock full of holidays to every schoolchild’s delight. I’ll admit that when I was a kid I barely understood Veterans Day, confusing it with Memorial Day as so many do. At least Veterans Day never went the way … Continue reading
Twenty-five years ago this Sunday the East German government made a surprising announcement. It would do what its citizens and the Western world had been demanding for years. It would tear down the Berlin Wall. For 38 years the wall … Continue reading
New York–Paul Pierce and Garrett Temple each scored 17 points, and the Washington Wizards used a 32-15 third quarter to defeat the New York Knicks Tuesday night at Madison Square Garden. In other news, the Republican Party regained control of … Continue reading
It’s hard to pinpoint an exact date on which a nation lost its soul, but if forced to do so I would select November 3, 1964. This was the ill-fated day of the 1964 presidential election, when Lyndon Johnson defeated … Continue reading
Is it too cliche to be Madison Bumgarner for Halloween this year? I’d like to think I could get away with it. After all, who called his Game Five performance something resembling Muhammad Ali? Well, Game Seven matched it. Remember, … Continue reading