My high school drama teacher, Milton J. McMenamin, characterized the art of theatre—everything from writing to acting to set design, sound and lighting—as being “Life-Plus.”

If you think that today’s theme, New Movements, will be scatalogical in nature, let me reassure you that bodily functions…

Since tomorrow is Election Day in almost every state—though the gravity of the issues differ widely in a non-Presidential, non-Midterms year…

Halloween is today and tonight but, as always, it’s already engulfed us for weeks

CBS-TV reported this fall that Jordan Wilmore, a 24-year-old professional basketball player, had left the sport to go into his first love, law enforcement.

One of my favorite distorted kid rhymes is the following:

Most of us know catastrophists—those people who claim to smell trouble brewing even if it turns out to be nothing more than an acrid pot of green tea.

When a host whose invitation I’ve had to decline sends me a gracious note saying, “You will be missed,” it’s nice—

OOHS AND OZ—Lions and tigers and bears—and two thumbs down!

Since I was 10 years old, I’ve often tried to identify with the President of the United States.

While reading an article about the supposedly new craze among the newly rich and were-always-rich—flying in private jets, whether rented or owned—I came across an acronym I’d never heard…

I introduced my daughter to “Columbo” pretty early on—the show and the character, not the late Peter Falk, who played him so indelibly on and off from 1968 to 2005.