To get to Hash House a Go Go on 5th Avenue in San Diego, famous for its enormous sage fried chicken on top of enormous bacon waffles, you have to walk. There’s no parking lot to the right or left…
Having run for nine seasons, The Dean Martin Show was one of the most popular shows on television during its 1965-1974 run. Broadcast during a time of great political upheaval, as war raged in Vietnam, Dean Martin’s relaxed, laid back…
Photographer Francesca Woodman died years ago. It is apparent from how her parents, sculptor Betty, and painter George, speak distantly of her. The pain is still there, but it’s not as acute as it must have been when they found…
To hope for more episodes like season 2’s “Hazel’s Day Off” in Hazel: The Complete Third Season is too much hope, but an observation is unearthed that went unnoticed before: Episodes are marginally better when the Baxter family isn’t occupied…
Novelist Julia Leigh makes her directorial film debut with the hauntingly exquisite Sleeping Beauty (2011). Starring newcomer Emily Browning as struggling college student Lucy, the film follows her nihilistic journey through the gloomy jungle of Sydney, Australia as she tries…
On a Friday in February 2005, with my parents at a taping of the fourth-to-last episode of Everybody Loves Raymond, I saw Ray Romano, Patricia Heaton, Brad Garrett, Doris Roberts, Peter Boyle, and Monica Horan at work, but I was…
The German title of Young Goethe in Love is Goethe!. The exclamation point is supposed to foster hopes of exuberant energy and good humor that would be expected from 23-year-old Johann Goethe (Alexander Fehling), a deliberate failure at his law…
My favorite moment in A Charlie Brown Christmas is when Linus calls out “Lights, please,” before he explains the meaning of Christmas. Not the actual meaning, although I know that has touched millions and it’s why the special remains a…
The brainchild of Gene Levitt and produced by Aaron Spelling and his partner Leonard Goldberg, Fantasy Island first appeared on ABC in the form of a television movie on January 14, 1977. Due to the film’s high ratings, ABC went…
“The fact is that the awakening we seek may depend upon the depth and richness of our uncertainty.” – Marilyn Sewell Raw Faith reminds me of Kandlestix, a handmade candle shop in Old Town in Kissimmee, Florida, where, when I…