Give Me a $20
The president of the United States is an outsider who rose to the Oval Office thanks to feckless coastal elites losing touch with the...
One Moment in Time
The stage version of The Bodyguard seems to have attracted better notices than the 1992 hit movie that inspired it. The musical remake of...
Change of Life
All of a sudden, black people are popping up everywhere in horror films, and it’s pretty awesome. After Get Out and It Comes at...
Aces Up
Back in the earliest days of filmmaking, there were few ways to do stunts except by doing them for real. That’s why, in the...
A Hell of a Town
When the Broadway musical On the Town was made into a film in 1949, the producers replaced most of Leonard Bernstein’s songs, saying that...
Threes and Fours
As the calendar turns toward July, we’re treated once again to the Mimir Chamber Music Festival, which is celebrating its 20th edition this month....
I Don’t Even Know Your Name
As Rachel Bloom once wrote about casual hook-ups: “Hey sexy stranger, come back to my place. / Please don’t be a murderer. / Kiss...
Schemers and Blackmailers
Shakespeare’s dark side comes out in this year’s Trinity Shakespeare Festival, where even the comedy on offer is tinged with malice and evil. The...
Drive, They Said
It’s another racing weekend at Texas Motor Speedway, and we can only hope that the weather cooperates, unlike this past weekend. The NASCAR Camping...
Shake It Like a Polaroid Picture
When photography was first invented, cameras were cumbersome and required subjects to sit still for as much as half an hour on end to...



















