April 24, 2017 0 The Communist Stop Light If you’re fan of Les Mis, you already know that red symbolizes “the blood of angry men” and “a world [...]
April 21, 2017 0 The Weekender, April 21, 2017 1) “For 18 years, I thought she was stealing my identity. Until I found her ” (The Guardian, 16 [...]
April 19, 2017 0 Bad-Minton Valeria Sorokina and Nina Vislova, above, are hardly household names. But if you were in London on August 4, [...]
April 18, 2017 0 A Sparkly Way to Solve a Crime Glitter. It’s a neat-freak parent’s worst nightmare. It gets everywhere, spreading like a sparkly plague [...]
April 17, 2017 0 Grand Theft Auto, Pyongyang North Korea has been the focus of a good deal of news over the last few days, and it may be hard for those of [...]
April 14, 2017 0 The Weekender, April 14, 2017 1) “Harry Potter and The Problem With The Pensieve Memories” (Me, 19 minutes, April 2017). Last [...]
April 13, 2017 0 To Boldly Go Where No Advertisement Has Gone Before The International Space Station — if reduced to two dimensions — is roughly the size of a soccer [...]
April 10, 2017 0 I Hadn’t a Scooby About This One In the 2001 remake Ocean’s Eleven, Danny Ocean (played by George Clooney) puts together an eclectic [...]
April 7, 2017 0 The Weekender, April 7, 2017 1) “The Last Unknown Man” (The New Republic, 52 minutes, November 2016). On July 11, 2011, I ran [...]
April 6, 2017 0 When the First Responder is Also a Disaster On May 26, 2002, the captain of a towboat on the Arkansas River fell prey to a fainting spell, losing control [...]