Arts & Culture

Upside down

DOWN I’m sick of people thinking that they are better than me and I’m sick of me thinking that I am better than them simply…



Conan fever

In a post, with the fitting title “No Bread for the Redhead,” TMZ reported that Conan O’Brien isn’t making any money from his upcoming 30-city…


Fried brains and Sam

As I went in no particular direction, for no particular reason, sifting and sloshing my mass of formless molecules through some kaleidoscope reality, I was…


Writing rainbow

Daria Salamon, author of the Prairie Bridesmaid, finds that she does her best writing when she starts at 10 p.m. and works away into the…


Chew on this

Martha Street Studio is filled with eye candy. Bacon bookmarks, mock bubble gum modeling clay, “Pollick’s lollipops” and other novelty items that all look good…


Lipstick Traces

Which Spice Girl were you? If you were a female aged seven to 14 in 1996 you probably at least considered it. The Spice Girls…


Lovely Rita

It’s back. Did we think that, just because, in 1983, Michael Caine and Julie Walters did such a memorable job in the movie version of…