The Place to Take a Humor Break
Cary Grant’s third wife, who introduced him to LSD, was known at her all-girls’ school for her good looks and rumba skills. Obituary of Betsy Drake, The Washington Post Night fell at Woodstock and as […]
NEW YORK. Mel Sewanicki, Columbia class of ’47, still can’t buy a drink in this town even though it’s been sixty-eight years since he made “The Catch,” a diving grab of a fourth-quarter pass that enabled the […]
WELLESLEY, Mass. Wednesday night in this suburb of Boston finds the house packed at L’Endive, a wine bar where a large rustic pine table is surrounded by a group of five women, all would-be writers and […]
A Massachusetts elementary school principal has been accused of promoting her steamy romance novel on school premises, and reassigning a teacher who complained to detention hall. The Boston Herald As I approached the forbidding […]
Five a.m. and I’m up before my alarm goes off. I let Okie, the old grey tabby, out of the basement and open the back door to let in Rocco, the young buck of a […]
Evelyn Waugh gave Edith Sitwell a pocket air-raid siren, which she would set off when people asked her whether free verse is more truly poetic than rhymed. The Letters of Nancy Mitford & Evelyn Waugh […]
The weekend is my time to give back to my community and my favorite institution within it–our local public library. I remember when I was young how much I loved Story Hour on Saturday morning. […]
It had been, for several years, a nagging problem; a high-pitched ringing in my ears that never seemed to stop. I attributed it to the barrage of noises I’m subjected to every day–squealing trolley wheels, […]
KEOKUK, Iowa. “Stormy,” the mascot of the Keokuk Grizzlies Arena Football League team, is a cute fuzzy bear who wins the hearts of kids with high fives, pictures and autographs. “I don’t know why they […]
Evolutionary psychologists argue that the human brain evolved as an entertainment device for male hominids competing to impress females. Charlotte Allen, The New Dating Game, The Weekly Standard Me and my buddies Ug and […]