Over the last few weeks, several actors and actresses who have appeared in Woody Allen movies (e.g. Joaquin Phoenix, Colin Firth, Natalie Portman, Rebecca Hall, Greta Gerwig, Rachel Brosnahan, Ellen Page, and Mira Sorvino) have made public proclamations of regret in an attempt to distance themselves from the filmmaker. The reason? The continuing claims by […]
This week on the showbiz segment of my show, Max and I review the new Christian Bale movie “Hostiles.” Then we get into who was left out of the Oscar nominations, why we love the movie theater company that’s coming to St. Louis, and the upcoming remake of “West Side Story.” On the TV side, […]
Do you know there’s wood pulp in your parmesan cheese? Do you know there’s probably no lobster in the lobster bisque you ordered? Do you know what makes olive oil “extra virgin”? Do you know that the Kobe beef on a restaurant menu is very unlikely to be real Kobe beef? These are just a […]
In the years since the Darren Wilson/Michael Brown story in Ferguson, there’s been a lot of talk about police department reform, both here in St. Louis and across the country. Documentarian Peter Nicks spent two years embedded with the Oakland, California, police department, as it tried to reform itself after years of high crime rates […]
Here’s my conversation with Aaron Carotta, who took a solo trip in a canoe the entire length of the Missouri River, then down the Mississippi River, and across the Gulf of Mexico — that’s 5,000 miles from Montana to Florida. Considering he had zero experience in a canoe (he didn’t even own one) when he […]
Here’s my conversation with Jeff Kreisler, co-author with Dan Ariely of “Dollars and Sense: How We Misthink Money and How to Spend Smarter.” Jeff explained such terms as opportunity cost, the pain of paying, and anchoring. We also discussed why we don’t talk to each other about money, and why our kids don’t get a good […]