We lost one of our house keys the other day, so I decided that, in the interest of home security, we’d change all the locks, just in case. I called Jack The Locksmith, who showed up a couple of hours later and knocked on my door. I opened it and jokingly asked why, if he’s […]
In America, every child knows that wonderful moment where your ears perk up in recognition of the ice cream truck song, a sound that makes the world stop in its tracks, followed by the Pavlovian response in your brain that says, “Ice cream! I want some. Now!” You run to your parents to beg for […]
Because I’ve been going to Las Vegas several times a year for many years, I get asked by friends who are going there, especially for the first time, whether there are any shows worth seeing. I have three shows I usually recommend, all featuring terrific magicians, appropriate for all ages. In no particular order they […]
Roman Polanski is a free man, at least as far as Switzerland is concerned. He will not be extradited to the US for the pedophilia he committed in 1977. There’s something still very wrong here. The girl he drugged (champagne and quaalude) and raped was 13 years old. Thirteen. I have a teenage daughter a […]
Spies. Who doesn’t love’em? Whether you grew up with James Bond or Jason Bourne, they’ve always been portrayed as the coolest of the cool, with incomprehensibly difficult missions, unbelievably cool technology, and necessarily classified lives. That’s part of the reason the Russian spy story is so fascinating — couples living in our country, integrating themselves […]
My wife and daughter and I were among those Americans who contributed to the $109-million box office weekend posted by “Toy Story 3.” We’ve been Pixar fans since I saw their first short and have seen all eleven of their big-screen creations, own most of them on DVD, and even owned stock in the company […]