Laughing @ Middle Age, a TV Cartoon by Pat Achilles
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Pulitzer Prize Photography at the National Constitution Center
By: Mary Fran Bontempo If a picture is worth a thousand words, then the exhibit at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia is worth a million of them. Capture the Moment: The Pulitzer Prize Photographs, running from October 11th through December 31, 2013, features "the most comprehensive exhibition of Pulitzer Prize-winning photographs ever assembled." With 153 photographs on display, it's simply stunning in its effectiveness in portraying the human condition in [...]
All for the Price of a Stamp
by Chrysa Smith The Price of a stamp. What is it now? $.46? How many stamps would you have to save before you were able to buy a brand new set of dishes? Sounds like an elementary school math problem, but truth is, it's all coming back. Yes, remember those S&H Green Stamps,? Plaid Stamps? Other savings programs? It dates back to when Lay-A-Ways were all the rage. And people weren't spending hundreds [...]
Barry Black, Senate Chaplain, Calling It Like He Sees It
By: Mary Fran Bontempo To hear an audio version of this post, click the play arrow below. What a dignified way to call people a bunch of jackasses. Over the past few weeks, U.S. Senate Chaplain Barry Black has increasingly called the knuckleheads in Congress to task for their hubris, arrogance and downright stupidity, during the one minute he gets to address the Senate at every session. And he's done it all while [...]
Laughing @ Middle Age, a Fall Cartoon by Pat Achilles
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Gravity–A Movie Review
By: Mary Fran Bontempo Think Cast Away but in outer space and crammed into real time. Gravity, the widely-heralded space disaster movie starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney is, at its most basic, a survival film, a la the Tom Hanks desert island movie from 2000. (Hard to believe Cast Away is thirteen years old.) The primary difference, that Gravity takes place over an actual ninety minute time frame, as opposed to the [...]
In the Heights
by Chrysa Smith Sounds lofty, doesn't it? The Heights! I wasn't sure if this acclaimed Broadway show was about society folks. Long story short, it ain't. Set in Washington Heights, New York, an uptown 'barrio' located near the George Washington Bridge, the set was realistically portrayed as an economically deprived urban neighborhood. Stores encased by steel gates, decorated by graffiti, the residents gathered in the streets to share their lives: good and bad, [...]