Most of you know that I was, for a very long time, a nationally touring stand-up comic. Some of you know that I had a weekly comedy show this past winter up at the Summit Lodge. What nearly none of […]
Category: Column
Good news for wild bees?
By Joe Rankin The honey bee is an introduced species in North America. It’s only been here about 400 years, brought by English colonists who found none after stumbling ashore and then promptly put in an order with their backers […]
The ethics of punching people
It was reported last week that George Zimmerman, the infamous neighborhood watch coordinator who was acquitted of second-degree murder in 2013, was punched in the face inside a bar in Sanford, Fla, after bragging about the 2012 incident in which […]
Rockin’ the region with Ron White
Courtesy of Dave Hoffenberg RON WHITE Ron White is bringing his awesome comedy show to the Paramount Theatre on Thursday, Aug. 4 at 8 p.m. I didn’t see his show live but I did have the pleasure of interviewing him. […]
Rough around the edges
By Dom Cioffi I knew as soon as I hauled my son’s travel trunk into the cabin that things in the summer camp world had changed dramatically. I had no sooner made it through the door when my senses picked […]
Safe and secure
The world is very safety conscious these days and that is a good thing. When I look back into the 1950s, and before, I wonder why some of us are even here! Many of the houses on our street had […]
The hero Gotham deserves
Because the bloated incoherent March blockbuster “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” was the worst Batman movie in history, and because DC Films has saddled us with Zack Snyder’s increasingly braindead direction through at least 2019, and because for the […]
Take it from the top
By Dom Cioffi When I was a kid, I never had an issue with heights. In fact, heights fascinated me. I think I first became enamored with heights when I started climbing trees. My childhood home had several wonderful trees […]
The Outside Story: Catch and release
By Tim Traver To be good at catching fish these days you have to be good at letting fish go. Releasing fish unharmed turns out to be a good way to share a limited resource, and depending on what you […]
Faking change
By Brett Yates On July 21, from the stage at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, the libertarian billionaire Peter Thiel proclaimed before a crowd of fellow Donald Trump supporters that he is “proud to be gay”—an unprecedented event at a […]