Over the past month I have published two pieces that have elicited far more comments than any of my other 300-plus articles: “Ten Classic Westerns You Absolutely Must See Before You Die” and “Ten Classic War Movies You Must See Before You Die.” …
It had started as a drinking game. A drinking game for pop culture nerds, to be exact. We were just a bunch of punk kids then, film and literature majors who got passed over by every fraternity and sorority on campus and banded together as much out of self-preservation as…
Last week I published an article about five of the worst movies ever made, at least as far as their historical accuracy. To show that I’m not just a grumpy old man who hates everything, today I want to present the flip side of that: five movies that are both…
A new year is always a fine time for a reading challenge; I issued my first for 2022 back on January 3rd with a challenge to read books published 100 years ago in 1922. I’m never satisfied with just one, though, so I here’s another that even Rory Gilmore would…
My youngest daughter is in the habit of calling me during her lunch break, often when I’m in the middle of writing a crucial Springsteen story. Like her older sister, she is a constant debater of pretty much anything (no idea where she gets that from), though it usually runs…
There aren’t many rock icons Bruce Springsteen hasn’t played with at some point (Elvis being the biggest exception), but most of those were times when they joined him onstage during an E Street Band show. …
Long before we were subjected to the-world-is-ending films like The Day After Tomorrow and 2012, there were movies that presented potential disasters that didn’t require taking a position on global warming or believing that the earth’s core could suddenly overheat. In the 1970s, our chaos was more practical: fire in…
If you’re unsure what the new year has in store for you, wonder no longer. Apparently I, you, and everyone else in the good old USA are headed to the same place: prison. While this was not what I expected, it’s good to know things like this in advance.
Several months ago I wrote a piece about St. Francis of Assisi, founder of the Franciscan Order. In today’s installment of “Three Minutes with the Saints,” we look at the founder of another well-known religious order, the Order of Preachers; they are better known today as the Dominicans, and their…
Several months ago I wrote an article debunking four myths about King Henry VIII. Today, we take a look at some of the many myths that have sprung up over the centuries about his equally famous daughter, Queen Elizabeth I, the Virgin Queen.
Elizabeth was born on September 7, 1533…
