Photo Credit: Photo Jaap Buitendijk, via IMDB. We saw 12 Years a Slave late in the game, after its universal acclaim and Oscar buzz had already established it as A Movie You Are Supposed to Adore. The central story — a free man, abducted from...
It’s hard to know what to say about Labor Day that the box office hasn’t already said. Tossed into theaters at the end of January on Super Bowl weekend, this uncomfortable tale of unlikely romance failed to earn back a third of the $18...
Three weeks ago, I made a commitment to reboot my daily meditation practice. I set a simple goal: ten minutes of meditation in the morning and ten minutes of meditation in the evening. I stuck with that routine for 19 days. * * * * * This past...
Update: Sadly, Ink and Elm has closed. I’d never heard of Ink and Elm when friend B.D. asked us to join him there for dinner … but, for all the right reasons, I won’t soon forget our pleasant evening there. Here’s how we got...
Before the trip to Tampa, I spent the required time on TripAdvisor, leveraging the wisdom of crowds to find tips on things to do. Number one on TripAdvisor’s list? Taking in a show at the Tampa Theater — a local parallel to...
FEED posits a near-future in which the zombie apocalypse fails to bring about the collapse of society. Instead, the living have retreated behind gated communities, where they get the latest news from risk-taking bloggers and obsessively test their...
SnowJam2014 left drivers stranded on Atlanta’s highways and students stranded at their schools. Commutes that normally take twenty minutes took as many as nine hours (or more). Abandoned cars and jackknifed transfer trucks blocked roads...
“That’s the great tragedy of American culture: that you could not do All in the Family now. They would not let you. Americans have decided that the worst thing in the world is to be offended, and so they’re constantly running...
The Wolf of Wall Street will win a wheelbarrow full of awards. Even so, I can’t recommend it. Early stories about The Wolf of Wall Street prompted me to pass on seeing it (particularly this passionate letter from the daughter of one of the...
I’ve been meditating now twice day for six consecutive days. So, you know … I’m an expert. I kid, I kid. But I can report that, in just six days of twice-daily meditation, I’m already seeing positive results. I’m using...
