F. Scott Fitzgerald was 28 years old and at the height of his career when he wrote America’s favorite novel, The Great Gatsby. Shortly thereafter, his fortunes…
The Brothers Grimm wrote Snow White 200 years ago as a story of love and friendship overcoming vanity and self-regard. Hollywood today has apparently traded the “love”…
The French actress Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923) was the first global celebrity: the first artist to be eclipsed by her image in her own lifetime, and the first…
What happens when a bunch of hippies get together and decide that prosecuting crimes is mean and people should be able to just take what they want…
“I feel like I’m not the main character in my own life story,” Joan, a character played by Annie Murphy in one of the episodes in the…
Of all the bars involved in the Great Cocktail Reawakening, perhaps none has had the cachet and hipster street cred as New York’s “Death & Co,” which…
It’s not every day that a for-profit enterprise takes a billion-dollar brand, a brand so culturally significant it has become a verb in most dictionaries, and just…
“I was born in a small town,” John Mellencamp sang in 1985. “And I live in a small town.” Actually, according to a recent issue of that…
What is it with the Left that they want to ban nearly everything that is fun or convenient? Gas stoves, dishwashers, plastic straws, gas cars, snowmobiles, and…
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York recently issued a warning that Americans may be undergoing a credit crunch. Ten days later, on July 26, the national…
