Widower's Tango

Imagine that you are living in a modern, bustling city with a population in the hundreds of thousands and you wake up one morning to dis...

On October 10 I published "A Sad Year" on this blog, descanting on all the terrible events that this year had by then inflic...

[In the spirit of Halloween, here's my take on a genuinely spooky film.] When the Danish filmmaker Carl-Theodore Dreyer finished The ...

By now, San Francisco 49er's quarterback Colin Kaepernick's decision not to stand during the pregame playing of the national anthem ...

James Taylor is one of the most enduringly popular recording artists of the past fifty years. Although a product of the Sixties, few peopl...

This past week, parents all across America have had to talk to their daughters about a video in which Donald Trump talks openly and brazen...

Though the Fall season is only a few weeks old, for me the year has already fallen. The new year is 86 days away, but there is little that c...