Dysfunctional Festivities
The holidays are happy because they force us to leave the warmth of the illusion
of adulthood and watch our years of therapy slide down the sink with the scraps
of Christmas dinner
Film & Television
The Fight For Salmon in “Upstream Battle”
In a country overrun with Wal*Marts and convenience stores, the idea of living
dependent only on the land seems abstract. But director Ben Kempas’s new
documentary turns that distant truth into
Wax On, Wax Off: Reflections on The Karate Kid
This week, I’m sick and tired. Not in the figurative sense, e.g., “I’m sick and
tired of the way you keep talking about the election outcome as if Obama’s
Belief in the <em>Bones</em>
It’s Christmas at the Jeffersonian Museum, and a team of freakish forensics
scientists is clashing over the meaning of Christmas. Seely Booth, the Catholic,
sees it as a time to revisit the
Pre-School Mayhem in <em>Nursery University</em>
Nurturing, stimulating, enriching, challenging: these are the words used to
describe nursery programs for children as young as two years old. It sounds
wonderful until you realize that the culture surrounding pre-school programs