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 Maury Allen

 

The Autograph Hunters: June 8, 2009
Who Saved Baseball?: June 1, 2009
Poker Players and Pals: May 18, 2009
Image of Mark Sanchez: May 4, 2009
Another Look at Jackie: April 20, 2009
Walter O'Malley Revisited: April 6, 2009
Al Jackson Remembers: March 30, 2009
"A Criminal Injustice": March 23, 2009
The Corporal Was A Pitcher: Feb. 23, 2009
Nasty Nadya: Feb. 16, 2009
Baseball is Back: Feb. 9, 2009
The Inside Wrestler: Feb. 2, 2009
The New Rupert Murdoch: Jan. 26, 2009
Baseball Hall of Fame: Jan. 19, 2009
The Shape of Things To Come in 2009: Jan. 5, 2009
My New Year's Resolution: Dec. 22, 2008
My Advertising Hates: Dec. 15, 2008
King George III: Dec. 8, 2008
History of the Game: Dec. 1, 2008
Thanksgiving Guys: Nov. 24, 2008
Hope Lives Eternally: Nov. 17, 2008
Firsts I Remember: Nov. 10, 2008
Back To St. Pete: Oct. 27, 2008
Rachel and Michelle: Oct. 20, 2008
Maury's Joe Torre Story: Oct. 13, 2008
Quayle in the Oven: Oct. 6, 2008
The Cruel, Cruel Month of October: Sept. 29, 2008
A True African-American: Sept. 22, 2008
Lou Gehrig and Image: Sept. 15, 2008
Presidents I Have Known: Sept. 1, 2008
We Need Adlai Badly: Aug. 25, 2008
The Cubs of '08: Aug. 11, 2008
Farewell To Jerome Holtzman: July 28, 2008
Farewell Bobby Murcer: July 14, 2008
Back To Cooperstown: July 14, 2008
Big Brown Shoes: June 30, 2008
Does Race Matter?: June 23, 2008
A 58-Year Crush on 'South Pacific': June 9, 2008
Mike Piazza Retires: May 26, 200
Robert Merrill Remembered: May 19, 2008
Farewell to Buzzie: May 5, 2008
My Favorite Team: April 21, 2008
No Crying in Baseball? Guess Again!: April 7, 2008
Vero Beach Farewell: March 24, 2008
Man's Greatest Invention: Feb. 25, 2008
Brothers in Sports: Feb. 11, 2008
The Return of Denny McLain: Feb. 3, 2008
The Goose is Loose: Jan. 28, 2008
Lamar Hunt's Super Bowl: Jan. 28, 2008
Laughing with Johnny Podres: Jan. 21, 2008
Predictions of Things To Come in 2008: Jan. 7, 2008
My Holiday Gifts For Sports Heroes: Dec. 17, 2007
O'Malley in The Hall: Dec. 10, 2007
Barry Bonds and the End of Baseball Heroes: Nov. 26, 2007
Marvin Miller, Revolutionary: Nov. 19, 2007
Does Intelligence Count?: Nov. 5, 2007
More of Al Gore?: Oct. 22, 2007
Sure, There's Crying: Oct. 5, 2007
Bob Feller Returns: Oct. 2, 2007
Great Art From the Negro Leagues: Sept. 17, 2007
Vick's Dog Days: Sept. 3, 2007
Farewell To the Scooter: Aug. 20, 2007
Tiger Tames the Field: Aug. 20, 2007
The NBA Gambling Scandal: July 30, 2007
Summer's Hottest Film: 'The Bronx is Burning': July 9, 2007
The Bonds Chase: July 2, 2007
1941--The Greatest Year in Sports: June 18, 2007
AROD At Night: June 11, 2007
Barney Stein's Dodgers: May 28, 2007
David Halberstam: May 14, 2007
Well-Regulated Militia: April 23, 2007
Rants of Racism: April 16, 2007
A Farewell To Stadiums: April 9, 2007
A New Jackie History Lesson: April 2, 2007
Hillary's White House: Feb. 26, 2007
"Letters From Iwo Jima": Feb. 19, 2007
Baseball's Rainbow Complexion Today: Feb. 5, 2007
Mickey Mantle's Restaurant: Jan. 29, 2007
A Victory For Integrity: Jan. 15, 2007
No Mark McGwire: Dec. 18, 2006
The State of Sports: Dec. 4, 2006
A TV Miniseries About the 1977 Yankees: Nov. 13, 2006
"Flags of Our Fathers": Oct. 30, 2006
Curt Flood and Buck O'Neil: Oct. 16, 2006
'The Echoing Green': Oct. 2, 2006
Roy Negron's 'The Boy of Steel': Sept. 25, 2006
Billie Jean King: Aug. 14, 2006
Rachel Robinson: Aug. 7, 2006
Hall of Fame Legends: July 31, 2006
Wimbledon Wishes: June 26, 2006
My Cousin, Jesus: June 12, 2006
Welcome Back, Dixie Chicks: June 5, 2006
The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky: May 22, 2006
Toots Shor: The Movie: May 10, 2006
Berkow's Way with Words: April 20, 2006
I'll Never Forget That CCNY Basketball Victory: March 20, 2006
Our Favorite Comic Book Heroes: March 6, 2006
Did You See Me in 'The Odd Couple'?: Feb. 27, 2006
Spring Training Ritual: Feb. 13, 2006
Halberstam's New Work of Art: Jan. 23, 2006
Marbles Mountain: Jan. 2, 2006
World Baseball Classic? Phooey!: Dec. 19, 2005
My Sacred Duty: Dec. 5, 2005
Welcome To...Scootergate: Nov. 14, 2005
I'm the Scrooge of Halloween: Oct. 31, 2005
Chicago, A World Series and Memories: Oct. 24, 2005
Roberto Clemente and the Ethnicity Issue: Oct. 3, 2005
Sports Counts: Sept. 19, 2005
A New 'League of Their Own'?: Sept. 5, 2005
Willie in Cooperstown: Aug. 8, 2005
The Immortal Bobby: July 27, 2005
HBO's "Mantle": July 4, 2009
Celebrating the New Stadiums: June 20, 2005
Voices of Summer: May 23, 2005
Lou Gehrig and His Legend: May 16, 2005
Yogi Berra is Turning 80: May 2, 2005
Broadcaster Mel Allen: April 25, 2005
"Up For Grabs": April 18, 2005
My Brooklyn Dodgers: April 11, 2005
Danny Gardella--Baseball's King of Laughter: March 21, 2005
A Lasting Friendship: Feb. 28, 2005
Canseco's Lonely Future: Feb. 21, 2005
Naming the Super Bowl: Jan. 31, 2005
Maury & Johnny: Jan. 26, 2005
The Legacy of Rod Kanehl: Jan. 10, 2005
The People We Most Want To See Less of in 2005 (with staff): Jan. 10, 2005
Final Salute--Robert Merrill: Jan. 3, 2005
A Christmas Car Experience: Dec. 20, 2004
Magnificent Seasons: Dec. 6, 2004
Red Auerbach: Nov. 15, 2004
Curse vs. Curse: Oct. 27, 2004
Heroes of James Madison High: Sept. 27, 2004
Memories of Brooklyn Baseball: Sept. 13, 2004
Nine Innings From Ground Zero: Aug. 16, 2004
Jose Contreras, Family Man: July 5, 2004
D-DAY--Yesterday and Today: May 31, 2004
Ladies in Iraq: May 24, 2004
Baseball in the Spring: May 3, 2004
Tears and Ted Williams: April 12, 2004
Baseball, Gentlemen, Baseball: March 29, 2004
'Miracle' Movie: Feb. 16. 2004
Baseball Players of the 1950s: Feb. 2, 2004
They're Here! Jewish Baseball Cards: Jan. 19, 2004
Where Have All the Heroes Gone?: Dec. 8, 2003
Arthur Gelb's 'City Room': Nov. 10. 2003
George Plimpton Not Dead: Oct. 6, 2003
Return to Glory: Sept. 22, 2003

Bill Werber--Oldest Living Yankee: Sept. 1, 2003
The Masterful David Halberstam: July 28, 2003
Saluting Leonard Koppett: June 30, 2003

The Jerome Holtzman Baseball Reader: May 5, 2003
It's the Real Deal: March 31, 2003
The Case for Gil Hodges: Feb. 10, 2003
Conversations with Clone Babies: Jan. 6, 2003
Memories of Christmas: Dec. 16, 2002
The Punch: Dec. 2, 2002
My Losing Season: Nov. 18, 2002
Hatin' Halloween: Oct. 28, 2002
Again, the Giants!: Oct. 21, 2002
Racist Red Sox: Oct. 14, 2002
The Enigmatic Sandy Koufax: Sept. 23, 2002
The Legend of the Yankees: Sept. 2, 2002
Muhammad Ali: Aug. 12, 2002
Incredible John McEnroe: July 28, 2002
The Immortal Ted Williams: July 7, 2002
Ernie Harwell: June 23, 2002
The School Named for Mickey: June 9, 2002
That Mets Book!: May 26, 2002
The Barry Bonds Dilemma: May 5, 2002
Bobby Knight's Own Book: April 21, 2002
Memories of Mets Gone By: March 31, 2002
All Those Books About the Yanks: March 3, 2002
A Poignant Night to Remember: Feb. 3, 2002
In Memory of A Colleague: Dick Schaap: Jan. 20, 2002
An Avalanche of Heisman Memories: Jan. 6, 2002
My Own Major Leaguer: Dec. 16, 2001
I'll Never Forget: Bo Belinsky: Dec. 2, 2001
The Book That Changed My Life: Dec. 2, 2001
Whitey, You're the Tops!: Nov. 4, 2001
So This is Chicago Baseball?: Oct. 21, 2001
Reflecting on Terror: Sept. 30, 2001
A Bitter Memory & Its Legacy: Sept. 9, 2001
A Chat with Carl Erskine at Cooperstown: Aug. 26, 2001
In the Matter of David Cone: Aug. 5, 2001
An Insider's View of the Yankees: July 8, 2001
The I HATE Golf Book: July 8, 2001
Yogi Berra: Why Nicknames Count: June 3, 2001
Zim and Pee Wee: May 20, 2001

 JIM BAWDEN

 

Farewell, Brave Farrah: June 29, 2009
Direct From the Studio: June 29, 2009
Bea Arthur: May 4, 2009
Vincente Minnelli and His Movies, Part Four: April 20, 2009
Vincente Minnelli and His Movies, Part Three: April 13, 2009
Vincente Minnelli and His Movies, Part Two: April 6, 2009
Vincente Minnelli and His Movies, Part One: March 30, 2009
Natasha Richardson Remembered: March 23, 2009
"Gone With the Wind": Feb. 16, 2009
"How Green Was My Valley": Feb. 16, 2009
Our Handy Dandy Oscars Ballot: Feb. 16, 2009
Are TV Networks Dead?: Jan. 26, 2009
A Lunchtime Chat with Van Johnson: Dec. 22, 2008
Talking With Nina Foch: Dec. 15, 2008
"Bringing Up Baby": Dec. 1, 2008
I Hate Rudeness: Oct. 24, 2008
Movies That Make You Scream!: Oct. 27, 2008
How I Learned About Canada At the Movies: Oct. 13, 2008
Guess What? We're Having An Election, Too!: Oct. 6, 2008
Picking the Emmy Winners: Sept. 15, 2008
Now Let Us Praise Radio Drama: Sept. 1, 2008
Hugh Laurie and the British Invasion: Aug. 11, 2008
Hybrid Television?: Aug. 4, 2008
Movie House Memories: July 21, 2008
The Award Show That Thinks Too Young: July 14, 2008
Old Faces, New Places; July 7, 2008
The Leacock Legacy: June 30, 2008
Joe Pevney Remembered: June 23, 2008
Remembering Fay Wray: 2004
My Chat with Vincente Minnelli: 2001
Audrey Totter: 2000

All About Eve: 2000
A Few Last Words with Irving Rapper: 2000

 ANTONY BUTTS

 

A Very Ordinary Taxi Journey: Dec. 3, 2007
Violent Slices of Life From Kyrgystan: Nov. 26, 2007

Adventures in the Death Zone, Part 1: April 19, 2006
Adventures in the Death Zone, Part 2: May 10, 2006
Adventures in the Death Zone, Part 3: May 22, 2006

 Elias Castillo


How I Got Hooked On Golf: Jan. 2, 2006
Legacy of Shame: Nov. 15, 2004
FOX and the Future: July 5, 2004
Stop Picking on Our Chiles!: Dec. 2, 2002
Y Tu Mama Tambien: May 5, 2002
Hollywood Owes Latinos An Image Overhaul: March 17, 2002
ALERT: Santa is Coming...into U.S. Airspace: Dec. 23, 2001
Buy A House and Become A Millionaire!: Dec. 2, 2001
Good Guns, Bad Guns: Nov. 4, 2001
Reflecting on Terror: Sept. 30, 2001
Bye, Bye Barcelona!: Sept. 9, 2001
The Baddest Thing I Ever Did: May 20, 2001
Traffic: 2001

Crossing the Border: Dec. 31, 2000
Border Boy Goes To War!: Sept. 18, 2000
Border Boy 3: May 17, 2000
Border Boy 2: April 13, 2000
A Boy of Two Worlds: Jan. 27, 2000

 KEVIN CRAIG

 

My Roller Coaster Ride with the Big "C": May 2, 2005
The People We Most Want To See Less of in 2005 (with staff): Jan. 10, 2005
The Girl That I Marry Will Have To Be...:Dec. 20, 2004
November's Journey: Dec. 6, 2004
A Dad Vs. the Fashion Police: Aug. 2, 2004
Canadian Boy's Sweet Hat Deal: Feb. 2, 2004
May Old Resolutions Be Forgot: Jan. 5, 2004
Spousal Duties: Dec. 21, 2003

 Raphaella Cruz

 

The Terror of Freeway Driving: June 4, 2007
Seizure!: Dec. 4, 2006
How Did We Live Without Craig's List?: Oct. 9, 2006
We Need More Fathers: June 12, 2006
Adventures in Potty-Training: March 27, 2006
How I Kicked the Habit...Twice!: Jan. 16, 2006
Here She Is--The Country Girl: Dec. 5, 2005
A Female Boxer's View of 'Million Dollar Baby': Feb. 21, 2005
THE MEXICAN: Aug. 9, 2004
Our Little Slice of Puerto Rico: May 24, 2004
Everything is Broken: Dec. 8, 2003
Baby and the Art of Sleeping: Oct. 13, 2003
Conversation with Michael Sebastien: April 21, 2003
ellen: Feb. 3, 2003
Appreciating Teenagers: Dec. 16, 2002
On Writing: A Love Affair with My Journal: Dec. 2, 2002
Death in Sports: Nov. 18, 2002
Refuse to Lose: Nov. 4, 2002
Take This Job & Shove It!: Oct. 14, 2002
Baldness is A Blessing: Sept. 23, 2002
The Nine Lives of Richardson Cruz: July 28, 2002
How We Failed Mike Tyson: June 30, 2002

 Kenneth Dreyfack
American in Paris

 


Blame It On the Malevolent Designer: Feb. 13, 2006
Press Freedoms and Islam: Feb. 6, 2006
Racist France: May 2, 2005
Faith Wash: May 31, 2004
Five Short Columns on Iraq, etc.: May 17, 2004
Bush's Secret Iraq Strategy: April 19, 2004
How One Old Crow Flies: April 12, 2004
More Blah-Blah-Blah-Blah?: Oct. 6, 2003
America's Global 'Fan' Mentality: Sept. 29, 2003
If You Go Out in the Woods Today...:Sept. 15, 2003
Back to the Boulevard: Sept. 1, 2003
Faith in the Market: Aug. 11, 2003
Eavesdropping at the Elysées Palace: Aug. 4, 2003
An Open Letter to the Folks Back Home: July 21, 2003
The Second Liberation of France: July 7, 2003
The Risks of 'Going Local': June 23, 2003

 Ray Dreyfack

 

The Lieutenant Strikes: Sept. 3, 2007
Harley's Gift: May 21, 2007
The Patriot: March 5, 2007
Lawyerspeak: Nov. 13, 2006
Remembering Dad: June 12, 2006
Right On, James!: Feb. 20, 2006
Technology: Dec. 5, 2005
A Medical Decision: Sept. 29, 2005
Dingbat: Aug. 8, 2005
Vanity Fare: July 18, 2005
"Convincing Bobbie": Jan. 31, 2005
The People We Most Want To See Less of in 2005 (with staff): Jan. 10, 2005
Wilson's Gift: Dec. 6, 2004
The Fixer: Oct. 19, 2004
Bernie's Song: Sept. 20, 2004
Calling Uncle Ralph: Aug. 16, 2004
Spam Session: July 26, 2004
Turnabout: June 28, 2004
The Wager: June 14, 2004
JOSH: May 31, 2004
Exclusive Interview: May 24, 2004
Enemies: May 10, 2004
The Loser: April 12, 2004
Happy Anniversary: March 29, 2004
Ryan's Revenge: March 15, 2004
Death of An Art Form: March 8., 2004
Does Your Spouse Mumble?: Feb. 2, 2004
An Opening At Short: Dec. 21, 2003

 

 Joanne Engelhardt

 

Living A Life in Constant 'Jeopardy': June 8, 2009
Going To Africa with "Out of Africa": Feb. 16, 2009
The Starving Children of Zimbabwe: Jan. 5, 2009
Hoping For Relief: Oct. 27, 2008
Grandmotherhood--Up Close & Personal: Sept. 15, 2008
Confessions of A Gymnastics Freak: Aug. 4, 2008
Curse of the Glass Ceiling: June 30, 2008
The Sunshine Girl: June 9, 2008
It Used To Be--My Kind of Baseball: April 21, 2008
What I Learned From My Daughters: March 17, 2008
My Homage to Teachers: Jan. 21, 2008
Great Toilets I've Known: Dec. 17, 2007
Confessions of A Middle-Aged Beach Bunny: Nov. 5, 2007
Collected Tales of Painted Nails: Oct. 22, 2007
Ray Doherty--In Celebration of His Life: Aug. 20, 2007
My Wonderful Ray: July 16, 2007
Confessions of A Theatre Addict: April 9, 2007
A Very Sanitary Cruise: March 19, 2007
A Special Friendship: Jan. 22, 2007
Patient Joanne X: Jan. 1, 2007
The Fragility of Relationships: July 31, 2006
We Can Work It Out!: May 29, 2006
Hoffman IS Capote: Feb. 27, 2006
For Earlene: Jan. 16, 2006
Presenting Mrs. Lucky: Dec. 5, 2005
Bonds That Just Grow Stronger: Oct. 31, 2005
The Intimate Lives of Movie Stars: Oct. 24, 2005
We All Scream For...ICE CREAM!!!: Sept. 12, 2005
Egypt in August--Not!: Aug. 15, 2005
Once...Twice...Three Times A Bride: Aug. 1, 2005
My Life As A Car: June 27, 2005
Almost 10 Rules For My Sendoff: May 23, 2005
Reading for the Joy of It: March 28, 2005
The Oscars: My Very Own Super Bowl: Feb. 21, 2005
The People We Most Want To See Less of in 2005 (with staff): Jan. 10, 2005
Becoming An Actress--Act Two: Jan. 3, 2005
Becoming An Actress--Act One: Dec 6, 2004
The Great Eight-Day Ballpark Marathon: Nov. 15, 2004
How To Create A Monster (without really trying): Sept. 20, 2004
To RV or Not To RV: June 7, 2004
Vacationing in Hell: April 26, 2004
Timeshares R Us: March 8, 2004
Let's Do Manhattan Real Cheaply--Part 2: Nov. 17, 2003
Let's Do Manhattan Real Cheaply--Part 1: Nov. 10, 2003

 Bucky Fox

 

Parade Rout: June 29, 2009
On A Roll On the Radio: June 1, 2009
The Missing Mets: May 26, 2009
I Want Answers Now!: May 11, 2009
The Misery of A Missouri Fan: March 30, 2009
Going Bowling: Feb. 9, 2009
Steel Certain: Jan. 26, 2009
A Great 2008: Dec. 22, 2008
What A Difference A Decade Makes: Dec. 8, 2008
The Right Vote: Oct. 27, 2008
Prayers and the Right Man: Oct. 13, 2008
USC Stands For 'Unprofessional Sports City': Sept. 22, 2008
Olympic Waves: Aug. 18, 2008
Golden Games: Aug. 4, 2008
From the Cheap Seats: July 21, 2008
Loss Angeles: June 23, 2008
Turn It Up!: June 9, 2008
French Open For Business: May 26, 2008
Guts and Gory: May 12, 2008
Baltimore Baseball Strikes Out: April 7, 2008
Hire Me!: March 17, 2008
The Gamblin' Man: March 10, 2008
Super Roll For the Pats: Jan. 28, 2008
Rallying For Romney: Jan. 21, 2008
Bucky's 2007 Calendar of Stars: Dec. 10, 2007
In Praise of Great Coaches: Nov. 26, 2007
'Cheers & Jeers' Strikes Again: Nov. 5, 2007
Meet the Mess: Oct. 2, 2007
Sports Musings ala The Buckster: Aug. 20, 2007
The Sport of It: July 30, 2007
A Dad For All Sports Seasons: June 11, 2007
The Dancing Champions: May 28, 2007
A Jackie Robinson Hit: April 23, 2007
Staring at the Stars: April 16, 2007
The Buckeyes Don't Stop Here: March 19, 2007
Let the Sunshine State In: Jan. 29, 2007
Best of 2006--He's Young: Jan. 1, 2007
Quite Upsetting: Dec. 4, 2006
Rollin' Rutgers: Nov. 13, 2006
Agassi's Fun Run: Sept. 4, 2006
Hovering Angels: July 3, 2006
Meet the Mets: June 19, 2006
Spring Ahead: April 3, 2006
Marching On with Those Lakers: March 6, 2006
Kobe To the Max: Jan. 30, 2006
A Live 2005: Jan. 2, 2006
Living Legends: Dec. 5, 2005
Timeout For T.O.: Nov. 14, 2005
Spooky Sports: Oct. 31, 2005
Trying To Have A Ball: Oct. 5, 2005
This Swiss Can't Miss: Sept. 19, 2005
Israel's Double Tennis Threat: Aug. 29, 2005
Lowe Expectations: Aug. 8, 2005
On Top of the World: July 27, 2005
Where Have You Gone, Richard Nixon?: July 4, 2005
Getting Our Phil: June 20, 2005
Why Baseball is #1: May 30, 2005
Baseball Fireworks: May 16, 2005
Right On!: April 25, 2005
Picky, Picky Baseball Picks: April 4, 2005
Baseball in the Sun: March 28, 2005
Lost in Laker Land: Feb. 28, 2005
Super Gap: Feb. 14, 2005
It's 'Super' Time!: Jan. 31, 2005
More Jive in 2005: Jan. 10, 2005
The People We Most Want To See Less of in 2005 (with staff): Jan. 10, 2005
The King of 2004 and His Challengers: Dec. 20, 2004
College Daze: Dec. 6, 2004
The Book on Phil Jackson: Nov. 22, 2004
Bucky's Fall Festival of Nitpicking: Oct. 27, 2004
From Baseball to Ballots: Sept. 27, 2004
Dems Sing A Nervous Tune: Sept. 6, 2004
The Tiger Woods of Tennis?: Aug. 2, 2004
Big Points: July 5, 2004
Three Cheers For...May 24, 2004
Let's Go Mets...and Dodgers!: May 3, 2004
The Presidential Sweet: April 12, 2004
Upsetting Times: March 29, 2004
Sports in the Desert: March 15, 2004
A Break Too Long: March 1, 2004
20 Things To Hate About Sports: Feb. 16, 2004
The Black Quarterback Syndrome: Feb. 2, 2004
Wanted--Competition for ESPN: Jan. 19, 2004

 Sid Frigand

 

SIDNEY'S ALMANAC & OTHER COLUMNS

All Hail the Inventresses Among Us: June 29, 2009

An Almanac Exclusive--The Forgotten Man: March 16, 2009
Almanac Musings: Nov. 17, 2008
The Perplexing Wristwatch Mystery: Sept. 22, 2008
Let's Go To The Hop!: June 30, 2008
Three On A Match: March 10, 2008
Come Blow Your Alpenhorn: Aug. 20, 2007
Proverbs Anyone?: June 18, 2007
Save Us From Syndromes: March 12, 2007
Almanac Musings: Jan. 1, 2007
The Presidential Library: Dec. 4, 2006
The FBI Gets By: Oct. 16, 2006
Hither, Thither and Yon: Aug. 21, 2006
Voyage to Octogenaria: July 31, 2006
Three Quickies: Dec. 5, 2005
To Whelm or Overwhelm: Oct. 10, 2005
Day of Reckoning Has Come...and Gone: Aug. 15, 2005
Great Missing Sock Mystery Explained!: July 11, 2005
Woman Shortage in Grygla: May 23, 2005
Was It 'Statuary Rape'?: April 25, 2005
Generation Gapping Made Easy: April 11, 2005
Gangsta Rap Wars: April 4, 2005
Why Some States Are Red While Others Are Blue: Jan. 24, 2005
Oceans Four: Jan. 17, 2005
Outing Those Anonymous Sources: Jan. 10, 2005
The People We Most Want To See Less of in 2005 (with staff): Jan. 10, 2005
A Joyous Holiday...and Happy Returns: Dec. 13, 2004
Almanac Potpourri: Dec. 6, 2004
Let Them Eat Venison!!: Nov. 22, 2004
John Swifties: Oct. 19, 2004
How To Host A Vigil At Home: Oct. 4, 2004
Putting on the 'Dog': Aug. 16, 2004
Coming To Terms with English: Aug. 2, 2004
Much Ado About Everything: July 26, 2004
A Cicada Lost in Brooklyn: June 28, 2004
The Flatliners Within: May 17, 2004
Almanac Musings: April 26, 2004
Cockelers, Musselers & Molly Malone: March 8, 2004
Hard Luck Oscars: Feb. 16, 2004
Running For Office: Feb. 2, 2004
Almanac Predictions for 2004: Dec. 21, 2003
Planning A Proper Anniversary Bash: Dec. 8, 2003
Crazy Car Names: Nov. 17, 2003
Weapons Found in Iraq: Oct. 20, 2003
Win A Free Vacation: Sept. 29, 2003
When is Defense Not A Defense?: Sept. 22, 2003
Senior Drug Addict Nabbed in Florida Sex Spree!: Aug. 18, 2003
Almanac Insights into The Next TV Season: July 28, 2003
How Important is A Good Vocabulary?: July 21, 2003
My Day of Reckoning Has Come...And Gone: July 14, 2003
Bulletins From Around the World: June 30, 2003
Lots of Ways America Can Fight Bunions: June 9, 2003
Hold the Mayo. France Strikes Back: May 19, 2003
Liberals Find Religion: May 5, 2003
Iraq's Toxic Chemical Shortfall: April 14, 2003
Ignoring Bulgaria: April 7, 2003
Big Shakeup Forecast for Homeland Security: March 10, 2003
How Iraq Got Its Name: Feb. 24, 2003
The New York Olympics: Feb. 3, 2003
Color Me Aubergine: Jan. 13, 2003
Hapless Hijinks: Jan. 6, 2003
Hallmark Indicted: Dec. 16, 2002

 Murry Frymer

 

The Madoff Mystery: Dec. 22, 2008
Look For the Silver Lining: Oct. 27, 2008
Meeting Paul Newman...or Not: Sept. 29, 2008
Ohmygod! Look Who's Famous!: Sept. 22, 2008
Future Shock is Here For Newspapers: Aug. 11, 2008
BORED: May 19, 2008
Kiddie Crime: April 7, 2008
Working On--A Philosophical Debate: Dec. 10, 2007
Like Topsy, We Grew: Nov. 26, 2007
Let's Everybody Blog!: Nov. 5, 2007
Merry Christmas, Many Times Over: Dec. 18, 2006
Anita O'Day at Fort Huachuca: Dec. 4, 2006
--30--: Nov. 13, 2006
Bigger and Better?: May 29, 2006
The Nominee I Missed: Feb. 27, 2006
War? What War?: Feb. 20, 2006
Lost Again: Jan. 30, 2006
Once Upon A Blog: Dec. 5, 2005
Where Did All These People Come From?: Sept. 5, 2005
The American Foreign Legion: Aug. 29, 2005
The Pope and I: May 2, 2005
We Need A Little Christmas Now: March 21, 2005
The People We Most Want To See Less of in 2005 (with staff): Jan. 10, 2005
Big News! Columnist Snuffed!: Dec. 6, 2004
In God (and Bush) We Trust: Nov. 8, 2004
Here's to Georgie! He's True Blue: Oct. 19, 2004
If Frymer Replaced Sharon: Oct. 11, 2004
One Nation Under God; One Nation Not: Sept. 6, 2004
Hype Is On The Way: Aug. 2, 2004
Go Moore! Beat Bush!: July 5, 2004
Lost and Founded: April 19, 2004
Who's Getting Married in the Morning?: March 1, 2004
Sure, We're Crazy!: Feb. 16, 2004
Frymer Reloaded: Dec. 8, 2003
Arnold and Me: Aug. 18, 2003
My Own 'Do Not Call' List: July 7, 2003
Michigan Then...and Now: June 30, 2003
A Dictionary for the New Millennium: May 12, 2003
The Bombs Bursting in Air: March 24, 2003
The Difference Down Under: Jan. 13, 2003
Web Sites, Now and Then: Dec. 2, 2002
Happy Hour in the Oval Office: Nov. 11, 2002
Lazy, Hazy Days of Summer: Aug. 12, 2002
UH OH!: June 30, 2002
Milton Berle: Alone at 80: March 31, 2002
Let My People Go: March 24, 2002
All Silly All the Time: March 10, 2002
Forget Enron! We're All Going To Be Rich!: Feb. 10, 2002
'Blue Light' Blues: Jan. 27, 2002
Trying to Remember: Jan. 20, 2002
Stop the Century, I Want To Get Off: Dec. 30, 2001

A Small Anniversary: Dec. 2, 2001
Murry the Bounty Hunter: Nov. 22, 2001
Willy Lomans by the Millions: Nov. 11, 2001
Reflecting on Terror 2: Oct. 28, 2001
Why Doesn't Adolf Like the Jews: Oct. 7, 2001
Everything Changes, Everything Changes: Oct. 7, 2001
Reflecting on Terror: Sept. 30, 2001
Bad? How BAD Was It?: Sept. 9, 2001
News for Dummies: Sept. 2, 2001
When Life Begins: Aug. 26, 2001
Murry Frymer: So Little Time...To Be A Kid: May 27, 2001
Lincoln was Wrong: You CAN Fool All of the People: March 11, 2001
To Tell the Truth: Jan. 7, 2001
Murry Slept Here: Oct. 9, 2000
Guilty Pleasures: July 10, 2000
The Valueless Society: June 12, 2000
Speak Now . . . or Forever Hold Your Fee: May 15, 2000
I'm Your Son. You're My Mother: May 1, 2000
The Lost Columns of Hershey Frymer: April 17, 2000
I Should Have Been Born a House . . . In Silicon Valley: April 10, 2000
Go Jew!: March 28, 2000
Say What? The Rise & Fall of Eloquence: March 13, 2000
Forget Plastic, My Children!: March 6, 2000
The Lonely Crowd: Feb. 28, 2000
My First Travel Issue: One Man's Favorite Places: Feb. 21, 2000
What's In a Dot.Com? Feb. 4, 2000
Happy Endings: Jan. 24, 2000
Number, Please: Jan. 10, 2000
Prepare for A Mid-Life Crisis: Dec. 3, 1999
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly from the U.S. Postal Service: Dec. 1, 1999

 Gina Gallo


Money For Nothing: Aug. 7, 2006
Our Favorite Comic Book Heroes: March 6, 2006
Northern Exposure: Jan. 23, 2006
The Wheel Deal: Jan. 9, 2006
Gifts Beyond Price: Dec. 5, 2005
Iron Chef--Live From Salem: Oct. 31, 2005
Fields of Flowers, Streets of Gold: Oct. 24, 2005
Prances With Wolves: Oct. 24, 2005
Angels Down Under: Oct. 7, 2005
Shirts for Saints: Sept. 19, 2005
Razing the Dead: Sept. 19, 2005
Blue Suede Chews: Sept. 12, 2005
Hell and High Water: Sept. 5, 2005
Spurs R Us: Aug. 22, 2005
Witness Protection, Desert-Style: July 29, 2005
Messages From the Other Side: July 18, 2005
Talking in Tongues: July 4, 2005
Dressed to Kill: March 21, 2005
Red Carpet Confidential (with Pat Geister): Feb. 28, 2005
Detours Along the Way: Feb. 14, 2005
Cosmetic Surgery for the Connoisseur: Jan. 31, 2005
The Trump Card: Jan. 10, 2005

Socks and Bonds: Dec. 20, 2004
Adopt A Platoon: Dec. 6, 2004
The Scourge of the Great Pumpkin: Nov. 22, 2004
Ain't No Buckskin Beauty Queens: July 5, 2004
The Naked Munch: Jan. 5, 2004
Friends in High Places: Dec. 8, 2003
Attack of the Killer Bees: Oct. 26, 2003
The First Liberty: Oct. 13, 2003
What A Way To Go!: Oct. 6, 2003
Trading Teepees: Aug. 25, 2003
House of Green Lions: May 19, 2003
War Without Victors: May 5, 2003
Reality Musicals: March 17, 2003
The Last Supper--Terrorist Style: March 3, 2003
Stand Tall and Shake the Heavens: Feb. 3, 2003
New Year's Absolutions: Jan. 6, 2003
Random Acts of Christmas: Dec. 16, 2002
Christmas--Italian Style: Dec. 16, 2002
Designing Men: Sept. 30, 2002
Times of Chaos, Days of Rage: Sept. 16, 2002
Finding Grace: Sept. 9, 2002
Higher Education: Sept. 2, 2002
Lillian's Song: Aug. 19, 2002
Reveries...and all that jazz: Aug. 12, 2002
Spirits in the Sky: May 12, 2002

Home Renovations--South American Style: May 5, 2002
Bright Lights, Big City (with Andy Murcia): March 3, 2002
Valentines for Dummies: Feb. 10, 2002
Lessons Before Dying: Feb. 3, 2002
Dial 1-900-Light Up!: Feb. 3, 2002
California Steamin': Jan. 27, 2002
Gimme Shelter: Jan. 20, 2002
Routine Call: Jan. 13, 2002
The Good Samaritan of Blood Alley: Jan. 13, 2002
Uptown Girls Get Organized: Jan. 6, 2002
Post-Holiday Newsletter from the Family from Hell!: Dec. 30, 2001
Quiet Miracles: Dec. 23, 2001
Tangerine Skies: Dec. 23, 2001
Reindeer Games at the Casa de Carp: Dec. 16, 2001
Alibi on 34th Street: Dec. 9, 2001
Touching the Face of God: Dec. 2, 2001
Bugged!: Nov. 18, 2001
Organically Friendly: Oct. 28, 2001
Fiesta del Sol: July 8, 2001
Rock Steady!: July 1, 2001
Don't Rock the Boat!: June 24, 2001
Sins of the Father: June 17, 2001
The Great Hair Harvest: June 10, 2001
Shake Your Buddha!: June 3, 2001
The Bar Code: May 20, 2001
Mambo for Mother's Day: May 13, 2001
Seed Money: May 6, 2001
The Godfather: Oscars 2001

Lot Lizard: April 8, 2001
The Flatfoot Boogie: Feb. 18, 2001
Help is Just a Cape Away!: Feb. 4, 2001
Deliver the Word: Jan. 28, 2001
Angel Dust: Jan. 14, 2001
'You Have The Right To Remain Silent' Night: Dec. 17, 2000
Angel in the Snow: Dec. 3, 2000
Live...From Dead End Street: Nov. 27, 2000
Snake-walker Elvin & The Scales of Justice: Oct. 30, 2000
Letter to His Wife: Aug. 21, 2000

 Patricia J. Geister

 

Lela's Story: June 15, 2009
History in Perspective: March 16, 2009
A Victim of Financial Terrorism: Jan. 19, 2009
Go Ahead, Write It In!: Oct. 6, 2008
Politics and Pipe Dreams: Aug. 11, 2008
How Love (May) Have Come To Bill Gates: July 21, 2008
Kansas Girl From Seattle Moves It Down To Texas: May 26, 2008
Castle Shopping in Texas: April 21, 2008
Growing Old Gratefully: Jan. 28, 2008
Season's Greetings...Or Not!: Dec. 17, 2007
Naked Men and Lonely Nights: Aug. 20, 2007
Return of the Bionic Woman: Jan. 8, 2007
Rush Limbaugh and His Stem Cell Rant: Oct. 30, 2006
I Am Woman--Hear Me Whine: Oct. 30, 2006
Is This the Face of A Terrorist?: Sept. 25, 2006
Deep in the Heart of Texas, Part One: June 26, 2006
Just When I Thought I Could Relax...: May 22, 2006
Fears of An American Citizen: Feb. 20, 2006
Hospitals Can Be Hazardous To Your Health: Jan. 16, 2006
All I Wanted For Xmas Was...: Dec. 19, 2005
The Office Christmas Party: Dec. 5, 2005
Mother-in-Law From Another Planet: Nov. 14, 2005
A Tribute to My Husband: Sept. 12, 2005
The Blue Angels & Men in Uniform: Aug. 15, 2005
A Visit From Mom: April 11, 2005
Dealing with the Devil: March 21, 2005
Red Carpet Confidential (with Gina Gallo): Feb. 28, 2005
You Should See the Ones That Got Away!: Jan. 24, 2005
The Powerful Religious Right: Jan. 17, 2005
The People We Most Want To See Less of in 2005 (with staff): Jan. 10, 2005
Life and Crime in the Big City: Jan. 3, 2005
Mom's Last Hanukkah Bush: Dec. 20, 2004
The Woes of A Wig For A Wedding: Dec. 6, 2004
It's Always Life: Oct. 27, 2004
This is My Day for 'Comfort Food': Sept. 13, 2004
Am I Better Off Now Than I Was Four Years Ago?: Sept. 6, 2004
A Visit From A Guardian Angel: Aug. 30, 2004
Kings, Queens, Cowboys and Moonshiners: Aug. 23, 2004
God, It's Time We Had A Talk: Aug. 16, 2004
This American Author's Blunt Observations: Aug. 9, 2004
Donald Duck, I Need A Favor: July 26, 2004
Fireworks in Kansas: July 5, 2004
Daddy Doe To The Rescue: June 14, 2004
A Wedding in East Podunk: June 7, 2004
A Wedding in June: May 31, 2004
Shelter From the Storm: May 3, 2004
Life After Morocco: March 29, 2004
The Secret Life of Lucy Hubbard: March 8, 2004
I'm A Southern Woman: Feb. 2, 2004
Eccentrics of the World, Unite!: Jan. 5, 2004
Christmas Memories: Dec. 21, 2003
Noah is Alive and Well in Oregon: Dec. 8, 2003
Happy Thanksgiving!: Nov. 17, 2003
Why I'm A Writer: Nov. 10, 2003
'Tis the Season For Potato Soup and Ugly Socks: Oct. 13, 2003
Vote For Patty!: Sept. 22, 2003
Attack of the Giant Bulb Catalogs: Sept. 15, 2003
The Joys & Pains of 'R.J. Syndrome' (with Ron Miller): Sept. 1, 2003

Snow on the Roof? Fire in the Furnace!: Aug. 25, 2003
Discrimination? I've Been There Before: Aug. 11, 2003
Patricia's Guide to Practical Parenting: July 28, 2003

Lights! Camera! Action!: July 21, 2003
My Guilty Pleasure is--Tom Jones: July 14, 2003
James Armon Griffin vs. Sen. Barry Goldwater: June 23, 2003
Missing: Artistic Freedom: June 9, 2003
Welcome Home, Sailor!: May 12, 2003
Can You Spell Mother?: May 5, 2003
Truth Isn't Always Stranger Than Fiction: April 7, 2003
Thoughts of A Proud American Mother: March 24, 2003
Missing Frank Sinatra: March 17, 2003
Cuban Missile Crisis 1962: March 10, 2003
Lucy the Snake Stalker: March 3, 2003
Love Really Can Be A Many Splendored Thing: Feb. 10, 2003
Yes, I'm Paranoid!: Feb. 3, 2003
A Purple Person Speaks Up: Jan. 27, 2003
Bong and His Bride: Jan. 13, 2003
The Mystery Man of Casablanca: Jan. 6, 2003

Secrets of A Mature Woman: Dec. 30, 2002
A Good Luck Charm for the New Year: Dec. 30, 2002

The Mother of All Telemarketing Calls: Dec. 16, 2002
Freckles, the Christmas Dog: Dec. 16, 2002
Mama and Mary Gee Wanna: Dec. 2, 2002
A Funeral, A Cherry Tree and Harry's Dentures: Nov. 25, 2002
Life With A Serial Killer: Nov. 18, 2002
Love Stories in the Personal Ads V: Oct. 21, 2002
Love Stories in the Personal Ads IV: Oct. 7, 2002
Love Stories in the Personal Ads III: Sept. 30, 2002
Love Stories in the Personal Ads II: Sept. 16, 2002
Revenge in A Jar: Sept. 2, 2002
Love Stories in the Personal Ads: Aug. 26, 2002
Daddy's Got A Brand New Toy: Aug. 12, 2002
The Late Emmett Watson: Aug. 5, 2002
Off to Alaska with John Steed: July 21, 2002
The Great Hair Catastrophe: July 7, 2002
Memories of Red Skelton: June 23, 2002
A Kansas City Girl Goes to Morocco: June 16, 2002
Square Wheels, Round Numbers: June 9, 2002
The Lady Who Talks to Cats: May 26, 2002
There is No Free Advice: May 19, 2002
The Wake: May 12, 2002
My Ears Are Burning!: May 5, 2002
My Husband, The Saint: April 28, 2002
Earthquake Alert: April 21, 2002
The Joys of Being A Homeowner: April 14, 2002

 GORDON GREB

 

2009
I'm A Yankee Doodle Dandy: May 11, 2009

The America I Saw in 1941: April 6, 2009
How A Boy Journalist Became A Newspaperman: March 16, 2009
Hooray For Mickey Mouse!: Feb. 16, 2009

2008
Seasons Greetings From A Golden Oldie: Dec. 22, 2008
Escape of the Prisoner From A Chinese Cookie Factory (Part Two): Dec. 22,
Confessions of A Prisoner in A Chinese Cookie Factory (1): Dec. 15, 2008
A Modern Christmas Carol: Dec. 8, 2008
The Dog Ate My Memoirs: Dec. 1, 2008
Halloween On Wall Street: Oct. 27, 2008
Farewell To Tigre: Oct. 20, 2008

Yes, the Sky is Falling: Sept. 29, 2008
The U.S. Grant Connection: Sept. 1, 2008
Lights, Camera, Action!: June 16, 2008
The Homecoming: April 7, 2008
A Muslim Future For Europe?: Feb. 18, 2008
"Patton": Feb. 18, 2007
Importing Islamic Laws: Feb. 11, 2008
How To Learn A Foreign Language: Feb. 3, 2008
Some Thoughts While Waiting For A Haircut: Dec. 3, 2007
Woes of A Premature Christmas: Nov. 26, 2007
Will the Real Next President Please Stand Up?: Nov. 5, 2007
My Brother, Wally: Oct. 22, 2007
How Bigotry Can Sneak Up On A Guy: Sept. 17, 2007
Birthdays Can Be Funny: Aug, 20, 2007
"Lord, Give Me My Daily Paper!": Aug. 6, 2007
The Seven Worst Wonders of California: July 16, 2007
Going Hollywood: June 25, 2007
Our First Dictator?: May 28, 2007
Lost in China: April 23, 2007
Living to 80 is A Nutty Idea: April 2, 2007
Best 1935: Feb. 19, 2007
I Am Doctor...Who?: Feb. 5, 2007
Down on the Farm: Jan. 29, 2007
Since Our President Won't Listen...:Jan. 15, 2007
Taking Stock of Your Life at Christmas: Dec. 18, 2006
Possible Signs of Maturity?: Dec. 4, 2006
Rooting For the New Deal in Hard Times: Nov. 20, 2006
A Child's Garden of Mutants: Oct. 30, 2006
Shadows Often Cast Our Futures Ahead: Oct. 23, 2006
How To Survive on $40 Per Month: Oct. 16, 2006
Goodbye, Old Man Depression: Oct. 9, 2006
Being Poor in America is No Joke: Oct. 2, 2006
Looking For Answers: Sept. 25, 2006
An Open Letter to Ted Sielaff: April 20, 2006
The Movie They Didn't Want Us To See: March 13, 2006
Professor Shocked By Movie Censorship: Feb. 27, 2006
My Own Fight with McCarthyism: Feb. 6, 2006
Memoirs of A Sandlot Kid: Dec. 5, 2005
Adrift in L.A.: April 18, 2005
The Further Adventures of Rusty, Boy Aviator: April 4, 2005
Love and Romance in Old Salamanca: March 21, 2005
It's the 'New' Old World!: March 14, 2005
Greb's Great American Movie Deal: March 7, 2005
Silents, Please!: Feb. 21, 2005
Has Orwell's 1984 Finally Arrived?: Feb. 7, 2005
Is There A Better Way To Choose Our Leader?: Jan. 24, 2005
Bye, Bye, New Deal!: Jan. 17, 2005
The People We Most Want To See Less of in 2005 (with staff): Jan. 10, 2005
Curse of the Writer Who Never Writes: Dec. 20, 2004
Lycus & His Fine Spirits: Dec. 6, 2004
Deja Vu Theatre 3: The Big Broadcast: Nov. 15, 2004
Memories of Armistice Day: Nov. 8, 2004
Deja Vu Theatre 2: Nov. 8, 2004
The Deja Vu Theatre: Oct. 27, 2004

 

 Paul Hertelendy

 

Hospi-Tally--Two Views: June 29, 2009
Puppy Love Reversed: June 15, 2009
Aviary Artistry: June 8, 2009
A Legendary Poet's Source of Inspiration: June 1, 2009
Soccer Dad: May 27, 2009
Duty Or Diversions: May 18, 2009
Planet's Plight in Flight: May 11, 2009
Blending: May 4, 2009
Lullaby To Heart-Skip Days: April 20, 2009
Horse On A Mission: April 13, 2009
The Player Fielded Illegally: April 6, 2009
The Wondrous Sprite: March 30, 2009
History Under Wave-Chewed Cliffs: March 23, 2009
Home--Poetic Torpor: March 16, 2009
Rain Forest: March 9, 2009
Compati(NA)bility: March 2, 2009
Grandma Outwits Automatons: Feb. 23, 2009
Resonance of the Great Emancipator: Feb. 9, 2009
La Boheme: Feb. 2, 2009
The Ship Called 'Morrow: Jan. 26, 2009
Lofty Gates Unlocked, At Last: Jan. 19, 2009
Leave My Love: Jan. 5, 2009
Them, Not Me--A Christmas Plea: Dec. 22, 2008
Hallowed Traditions: Dec. 15, 2008
A Slice of Bark: Dec. 8, 2008
Night of the Hug-Melt Chocolates: Dec. 1, 2008
Apart From the Election Outcome: Nov. 17, 2008
Plunging Into Past and Future: Nov. 10, 2008
The Grotesque Mask Speaks Up: Oct. 27, 2008
Of Bishops, Of Slippage, Of Faith: Oct. 20, 2008
Misnomer: Oct. 13, 2008
A Boy's Idol Passes: Sept. 29, 2008
Saga of A Caretaker's Softened Heart: Sept. 29, 2008
Castle in the Sky: Sept. 22, 2008
Wildlife, Stilllife: Sept. 15, 2008
Pagan Lady Tolerates No Sacrilege: Sept. 8, 2008
Culture Clash: Sept. 1, 2008
Transition: Sept. 1, 2008
Blinded By the Guide: Aug. 25, 2008
A Summons To Deny: Aug. 18, 2008
Canine Rocking Chair: July 14, 2008
Reflections on the Fourth: July 7, 2008
An Ounce of Prevention: July 7, 2008
Don't Look Back, Dear Orpheus: June 30, 2008
After the Birthday: June 23, 2008
Tough-Love Fog: June 16, 2008
The Knew-Wave Attraction: June 9, 2008
Worlds in Flesh and Blood Atremble: May 26, 2008
Grander and Grandeur: May 19, 2008
...Or Die Trying: May 12, 2008
Birdcott: May 5, 2008
con Font rations: April 21, 2008
Realized Over Green: March 24;, 2008
Timeless Summons: March 17, 2008
Reflecting Warmly, Frondly: March 10, 2008
"On Time": March 3, 2008
Hi-Tech Revolution: Feb. 3, 2008
Don't Look Back, Dear Orpheus: Jan. 28, 2008
A Jack London Ode: Jan. 21, 2008
Oddest of Couples: Jan. 7, 2008
A Lover's Plea: Dec. 17, 2007
A Train, A Yearning and A Goal: Dec. 3, 2007
DOGGONE: Nov. 26, 2007
Busted Peace Pipes: Nov. 19, 2007
Message From the Vanished: Nov. 12, 2007
Imperfect Afternoon: Nov. 5, 2007
A Moon Expended: Oct. 22, 2007
Treasures of the Wild: Oct. 15, 2007
Meditation on Tranquility: Oct. 1, 2007
Florid Starburst: Sept. 17, 2007
Ring-Wrung: Sept. 3, 2007
Psyched In: Aug. 20, 2007
The Winged Missionary, etc.: July 16, 2007
Frozen Bride: July 16, 2007
Red, White, I'm Blue: July 3, 2007
Hope That Springs Internal: July 2, 2007
Radiant Warmth: June 25, 2007
An Inconvenient Storm: June 11, 2007
Rampart Access: June 4, 2007
Sodden Thought: May 28, 2007
Breaking the Ice: May 21, 2007
Mate of the Gauchos: May 14, 2007
The Catalytic Ship: April 23, 2007
Predators: April 9, 2007
Blue Face: March 26, 2007
White Horse in the Mountains: March 19, 2007
On A Paris Venture: March 12, 2007
The God of War: March 5, 2007
NEST: Feb. 26;, 2007
An Endless Moebius-Strip Acknowledgement For A Book: Feb. 5, 2007
Braided Leashes: Jan. 22, 2007
The Calm of Wild Life: Jan. 8, 2007
Tolling Into Elevated Spaces: Jan. 1, 2007
Christmas Season: Dec. 18, 2006
Coastal Fog: Dec. 4, 2006
Airport Bound: Nov. 13, 2006
A Solid Constitution: Oct. 30, 2006
Stone Giants: Oct. 23, 2006
High in the Alps: Sept. 25, 2006
Total Recall: Aug. 21, 2006
Haiku Times Two: July 31, 2006
Yuyuan Garden, Shanghai: July 3, 2006
A Valentine Beside the Shore: July 3, 1980
Nirvana Expended: July 3, 2006
Old Town--Island of the Past: June 26, 2006
Great Wall Without End: June 19, 2006
Siberian Icebox Thawing: June 12, 2006
Liberation By Diploma: May 29, 2006
Owl on Eagle Peak: May 22, 2006
Plunge Into Alternatives: May 10, 2006
Hope That Springs Eternal: April 20, 2006
Haikus and Shorties in Earnest: April 3, 2006
Knife Sharp Rejection: March 20, 2006
Adult Ed For John and Julie: March 13, 2006
The Ref's A She: March 6, 2006
Timing: Feb. 13, 2006
Flood: Feb. 6, 2006

A Moebius-Strip Poem--Going Around in Circles: Jan. 16, 2006
Christmas 2005: Dec. 19, 2005
A Toast...After Several Others: Dec. 19, 2005

Two Poems of Celebration: Dec. 5, 2005
That Dog-Gone Election: Nov. 14, 2005
Beach, Together--Shell We?: Oct. 31, 2005
Streamlines Sublime: Oct. 24, 2005
Running Free on Air: Oct. 10, 2005
My Low-Cost Therapist Named Steinway: Oct. 4, 2005
Inscribed in Wood and Memory: Sept. 19, 2005
A City's Silence: Sept. 12, 2005
De-Composing: Sept. 5, 2005
Vanishing Act to Emulate: Aug. 22, 2005
The New Encyclopedia On Good Health: Aug. 15, 2005
A Mountain of Denials: Aug. 8, 2005
High-Risk Operations: July 28, 2005
Abyss: July 12, 2005
Land of Wondrous Marvels: July 4, 2005
A Friend To Howl About: June 27, 2005
After the Fall is Over: June 20, 2005
The Forest's Perfect Crime: May 30, 2005
Orni Stud: May 23, 2005
Peaceable Kingdom: May 16, 2005
Environment in Extremis: April 18, 2005
Creative Writing: April 11, 2005
The Evolving Psyche: March 28, 2005
The Showoff: Feb. 28, 2005
Vacillating Valentine: Feb. 5, 2005
The People We Most Want To See Less of in 2005 (with staff): Jan. 10, 2005
A Santa Claus Haiku: Dec. 20, 2004
Costa Rica--Night of the Howler Monkeys: Dec. 6, 2004
Thanksgiving International: Nov. 22, 2004
Inspiration From the Artifacts: Nov. 8, 2004
As A Jaybird: Oct. 4, 2004
Gridloquacious Cyclic Choreography of La Gridloque: Sept. 27, 2004
The Train To Bermuda: Sept. 20, 2004
SUEÑO DE OTRAS NOCHES: July 26, 2004
Shakedown Cruise: April 26, 2004
Cafe: April 19, 2004
Marriage Law Imbroglio: March 29, 2004
Marine Onslaught: March 15, 2004
A Cool Valentine: Feb. 16, 2004
Our Herd of Coltish Young Observatories: Jan. 19, 2004
A Poet's Visions of Hawaii: Jan. 5, 2004
Teetering on the Cliffs of Java: Dec. 8, 2003
Berkeley Comes to the Bishop: Nov. 10, 2003
Wedding in A Golden State: Oct. 26, 2003
The Sea Wolf in Sheep'sClothing: At Ocean's Plunge: Sept. 29, 2003
Troubled Poetry on the Vine: Sept. 15, 2003
The God of War: Sept. 1, 2003
Congregations Straddled and Embraced: Aug. 11, 2003
Resting Place: (Penultimate) Searching for Zoltán: Aug. 4, 2003
Two New Poems of Summer: July 28, 2003
Home: Poetic Torpor: June 23, 2003
On A Paris Visit 2003: April 21, 2003
On the Precipice: March 10, 2003
As If It Were Fiction: Jan. 27, 2003
Help! I'm Stranded in the Sierra Wilderness!!!: Jan. 6, 2003
Fuji Stick: Oct. 21, 2002
Mother Nature--Blast It!: July 21, 2002
Frozen in the Sun: Jan. 27, 2002

 KENT HOLSATHER

 


2009:
Beware of...The Master: March 30, 2009

The Old Winter Blues: Jan. 5, 2009

2008
The Mystery Room: Oct. 27, 2008

Holsather Has Just Left the Ball Park: June 30, 2008
The 60-Minute Man: May 26, 2008
Every Boy Needs A 'Fortress of Solitude': Feb. 11, 2008


2007
The Man Who Invented the Housefly AirForce: Nov. 26, 2007

A Child's Garden of Memories: Oct. 5, 2007
Ma & Pa Kettle: Alive & Well in British Columbia?: June 4, 2007
Colonoscopy--The Movie: Jan. 8, 2007


2006
"The Screaming Hills": Oct. 30, 2006

A Kid on the Caribou Trail: Sept. 25, 2006
Junior High Daze: June 26, 2006

2005

Remember the Alamo! Please?: Dec. 19, 2005
Fishing with the Old Norwegian: Sept. 19, 2005
Mama's House: Aug. 5, 2005
Legacy of Smoke: May 16, 2005

Road Trip--The Quest For Beer: May 4, 2005
The Day Clyde Beatty Came To Town: March 28, 2005
Wake-Up Call: Jan. 24, 2005

2004

Drive-In Dreams of the Motor Vu: 2004
Parks' Store: March 1, 2004

 Stan Isaacs

 

2009
How To Make the Court Turn Left: June 29, 2009

Beware the Blogs!: June 29, 2009
Hats Off to Hochman: June 15, 2009
Borel's Big Mistake: June 8, 2009
Reasons For Loving the Belmont Stakes: June 1, 2009
The Unforgettable Woodie: May 25, 2009
A Filly For the Ages: May 18, 2009
Brooklyn By the Numbers: May 11, 2009
'You Know-itis' Infects Biden: May 4, 2009
Paying the Price: April 20, 2009
A Browser's View of Sports: April 13, 2009
A Freud's Eye View of the National Pastime: April 6, 2009
Putting Hollywood Quotes in the Right Mouths: March 30, 2009
Bracketing the Presidents: March 23, 2009
Boondoggle-arama?: March 16, 2009
A Historic Injustice: March 9, 2009
That Incredible Game: March 2, 2009
A Sportscasting High Wire Act: Feb. 23, 2009
Slumdog Casablanca: Feb. 16, 2009
Milestones From Baseball's Rule Book: Feb. 9, 2009
Sports in America, Part Two: Feb. 2, 2009
Sports in America, Part One: Jan. 26, 2009
The Goat That Inspired A President: Jan. 19, 2009
The Angst of Victory?: Jan. 12, 2009
'Bowl'-ing For Chuckles: Jan. 5, 2009

2008
Sports Guy Goes Longhair: Dec. 22, 2008

Governor Superfan: Dec. 15, 2008
The Embarrassing Bill Kristol: Dec. 8, 2008
IRED Ratings 2008: Dec. 1, 2008
Muhammad Ali's Place in History: Nov. 24, 2008
Pro Football in Philadelphia: Nov. 17, 2008
A Salute To Ivy League Football: Nov. 10, 2008
A Series Game To Treasure: Oct. 27, 2008
Barack Obama, Sports Dude: Oct. 20, 2008
Talk About Bum Advice!: Oct. 13, 2008
The Catbird Seat Rhubarb: Oct. 6, 2008
Pitchers Who Go All The Way: Sept. 29, 2008
Revising the Legend of Leonard & The Chipmunks: Sept. 22, 2008
Watching Out For No. 2: Sept. 15, 2008
The Prince of Prognosticators: Sept. 8, 2008
The Book You Must Have Now!!!: Sept. 1, 2008
Fighting McCain's Chutzpah: Aug. 25, 2008
Adventures of the Ultimate Letter Planter: Aug. 18, 2008
Welcome to the Hall of Shame: Aug. 11, 2008
The Skeptics' Primer For the Olympic Games: Aug. 4, 2008
Olympic Memories of 'Moon' Mondschein: Aug. 4, 2008
Women To Match Our Mountains: July 21, 2008
The All-Star Scam & Other Issues: July 14, 2008
The Wimbledon Report: July 7, 2008
There's Something About Mary Carillo: June 30, 2008
Jottings From Dog-Eared Notebooks: June 23, 2008
The Ultimate Golf Match: June 17, 2008
The Big, Big Brown-Out: June 9, 2008
Day of the Big Fire (by Ellen Isaacs): June 9, 2008
Some Gleanings From The Sporting Life: May 26, 2008
Big Brown and Racing's Future: May 19, 2008
...After the Fall: May 12, 2008
Classy Tim McCarver: May 5, 2008
Just A Few Words with Lou Piniella: April 21, 2008
Beware the Chinese Olympics!: April 7, 2008
The Un-Baseball Park Rises Again: March 31, 2008
In Love With the Essence of Baseball: March 24, 2008
The Un-Natural: March 17, 2008
What About the New Cuba?: March 10, 2008
Rich Details of Louis-Schmeling II: March 3, 2008
The Brown Bomber vs. Hitler's Pride: March 3, 2008
The Red Flag Tennis Match: Feb. 25, 2008
"There Will Be Blood": Feb. 18, 2008
The Roger Clemens Affair: Feb. 18, 2008
Super Bowl #42--The Big Upset: Feb. 4, 2008
When Is An Endorsement NOT An Endorsement?: Feb. 3, 2008
Meet the New Dream Team: Jan. 7, 2008

2007
Another Big Boo For O'Malley: Dec. 17, 2007

Shifty's Boys: Dec. 10, 2007
A Grand Old Rivalry: Dec. 3, 2007
IRED #47: Nov. 26, 2007
A Remembrance of Norman Mailer: Nov. 19, 2007
More Memories of Charles Schulz: Nov. 5, 2007
A Rewarding Day at the Races: Oct. 29, 2007
Exit--JoeTorre: Oct. 22, 2007
In Tribute to Al Oerter (Part Two): Oct. 22, 2007
In Tribute To Al Oerter (Part One): Oct. 15, 2007
Of Generals and Presidents: Oct. 4, 2007
Let's Call It...Philadelpheuphoria!: Oct. 2, 2007
A Scarlet Letter For Belichick?: Sept. 17, 2007
A Student Speaks Up: Sept. 3, 2007
Pshaw to Bonds' Record: Aug. 20, 2007
A Browser's View of Pugilistic Fare: Aug. 20, 2007
The Sports Front--Once Over Lightly: Aug. 6, 2007
Shame Time For Sports: July 30, 2007
HBO's "Brooklyn Dodgers--The Ghosts of Flatbush": July 16, 2007
The Final Take for Charles Lane: July 16, 2007
Images From Wimbledon 2007: July 9, 2007
Once Upon A Time At Wimbledon...: July 3, 2007
Bill Nack: June 25, 2007
The Old Pro--Larry Merchant: June 18, 2007
Rags to Riches--Filly of the Century?: June 11, 2007
A Game To Remember: June 4, 2007
Focus on The Preakness: May 21, 2007
Playing Catchup On Sports: May 14, 2007
A Windy Night Out With the Phillies: April 23, 2007
The Glory of No. 42: April 16, 2007
Bumbling Along with Bush & Co.: April 9, 2007
The Dilemma That is Pete Rose: April 2, 2007
The Orchid Man: March 26, 2007
A Favorite Curmudgeon: March 19, 2007
A Night At A Cathedral of Basketball: March 12, 2007
In Praise of Ira Berkow: March 5, 2007
Cartoonist Tony Auth--An Appreciation: Feb. 26, 2007
Best 1981: Feb. 19, 2007
Super Bowl, Delightfully Sloppy Super Bowl!: Feb. 5, 2007
The Return of Isaacstan: Jan. 29, 2007
Unforgettable! That's What It Was!: Jan. 22, 2007
Our View From the Couch: Jan. 15, 2007
The Anatomy of Two Great Plays: Jan. 8, 2007
The Saga of Lieberman's Leap: Jan. 1, 2007

2006
Defending the Arts: Dec. 18, 2006

The 2006 IRED Ratings: Dec. 4, 2006
The Tale of A Good Dog: Nov. 20, 2006
Tony Kornheiser--The Prodigy Grown Famous: Nov. 13, 2006
A Sampler of Sports Musings: Oct. 30, 2006
A Smorgasbord of Baseball-iana: Oct. 23, 2006
The Tigers' 'D' is A Winner: Oct. 16, 2006
A Baseball Playoff Sampler: Oct. 9, 2006
Basesball Did the Kid In: Oct. 2, 2006
Waking Up Echoes of Jimmie Foxx: Sept. 25, 2006
The Tilden Tragedy: Sept. 4, 2006
Jewish Major Leaguers--Then & Now: Aug. 28, 2006
The 'Feud' That Never Happened: Aug. 21, 2006
Short Shots in Sundry Directions: Aug. 14, 2006
The Radio Days of Woody Allen: Aug. 7, 2006
My Updater on July Sports: July 31, 2006
A Bit of Rich Wimbledon Lore: July 3, 2006
I Would Like To Like Soccer, But...:June 26, 2006
The U.S. Open--From Tedium To Disaster: June 19, 2006
A Typical TV Saturday: June 12, 2006
Art or Hollywood Kitsch?: June 5, 2006
The Philadelphia Inquirer--Skewed On Sports: May 29, 2006
The Awful, Awful Preakness: May 22, 2006
Time For Another Secretariat?: May 10, 2006
Was it Dobbin? Sparky? Mr. Ed?: April 20, 2006
Ah! Baseball's Back!: April 3, 2006
A Pox on the Face of Baseball: March 27, 2006
Two Fever-Inducing Sports Events: March 20, 2006
The Truth About Pat Tillman: March 13, 2006
Our Favorite Comic Book Heroes: March 6, 2006
A Movie Curmudgeon Wails Anew: Feb. 27, 2006
Do You Believe in Miracles?: Feb. 20, 2006
Stan Meets A Drag Queen: Feb. 13, 2006
Super Bowl Report: Feb. 6, 2006
Shhh! It's the Super Bowl!: Jan. 30, 2006
My Life-long Passion for Liebling: Jan. 23, 2006
Thoughts While Doing A Playoff Weekend: Jan. 16, 2006
Paterno's Overweening Mystique: Jan. 9, 2006
The Man They Called 'King Kong': Jan. 2, 2006

2005
Academia's Moola Bowls: Dec. 19, 2005

Readers Strike Back: Dec. 19, 2005
The 2005 IRED Ratings: Dec. 5, 2005
Pee Wee and Jackie...Forever: Nov. 14, 2005
Lessons From the Horse Racing Bible: Oct. 31, 2005
Stan Picks A Candidate: Oct. 24, 2005
Was It Truth Or Myth?: Oct. 10. 2005
Bob Costas--Premium Broadcaster, Pt. Two: Oct. 3, 2005
Bob Costas--Premium Broadcaster, Pt. One: Sept. 26, 2005
Waking Echoes of Mel Ott: Sept. 19, 2005
A Match for the Ages: Sept. 12, 2005
Age Vs. Youth on the Golf Course: Aug. 29, 2005
The Wickers of Merion: Aug. 29, 2005
Some Baseball...By the Numbers: Aug. 22, 2005
Revenge of the Armchair Spectator: Aug. 15, 2005
The Education of A Horse Trainer: Aug. 8, 2005
Telling the Whole Truth: Aug. 1, 2005
In Defense of Philadelphia Sports Fans: July 27, 2005
'Cinderella Man' Rings True: July 18, 2005
A Long-Ago Walk in the Windy City: July 14, 2005
How About A Little THISA & THATA?: July 4, 2005
"We Don't Need Your Stinkin' Stadiums": June 27, 2005
My Love Affair with the Belmont Stakes: June 20, 2005
The Stain That Endures: May 30, 2005
Koo's Big Coup: May 23, 2005
Horse Race Betting 1A: May 16, 2005
How Two Masters Saw the Derby: May 2, 2005
They Call It Citizens Bank Park: April 25, 2005
An Evening with Saul Bellow: April 18, 2005
I Become A Phillies Fan...Well, Almost: April 11, 2005
Isaacstan Endures!!: April 4, 2005
It's Stan, the Baseball Answer Man: March 28, 2005
Steroids in Baseball--The Past is Finally Present: March 21, 2005
If Your Name is Isaacs, Take A Bow: March 14, 2005
A Cheerful Goodbye to Bad Bill Safire: March 7, 2005
Only the Baseball Fans Are Pure: Feb. 28, 2005
A Curmudgeon's View of the Oscars: Feb. 21, 2005
Farewell To My Home Town: Feb. 14, 2005
Super Bowl XXXIX: Feb. 7, 2005
Let's End Philly's Despair: Jan. 31, 2005
The Greatest Athlete of Them All Was...: Jan. 24, 2005
In Memory of Two Remarkable Friends: Jan. 17, 2005
The True Legacy of Reggie White: Jan. 10. 2005
The People We Most Want To See Less of in 2005 (with staff): Jan. 10, 2005
The Day I Discovered the Maldive Islands: Jan. 3, 2005

2004
Immortality and Its Price: Dec. 13, 2004

Curse of the IRED Ratings: Dec. 6, 2004
The Great American Baseball Novel: Nov. 29, 2004
Gentlemen Don't Win Elections: Nov. 15, 2004
Big News From Isaacstan!: Oct. 27, 2004
Stan's Baseball Grab Bag: Oct. 19, 2004
California, 1934: Oct. 11, 2004
The Day the Mets Won the Pennant: Oct. 4, 2004
Let's Hear It For the Cheyney Wolves!: Sept. 27, 2004
If I Ruled the Sports World: Sept. 20, 2004
ESPN is A Good Thing, I Think: Sept. 13, 2004
The Lombardi-von Clausewitz Strategy: Sept. 6, 2004
Stan's Olympiad, Part Three: Aug. 30, 2004
Stan's Olympiad, Part Two: Aug. 23, 2004
A Yank at Oxford: Aug. 23, 2004
Stan's Olympiad, Part One: Aug. 16, 2004
Smarty Jones--Another Might-Have-Been: Aug. 9, 2004
Convention Hollering: Aug. 2, 2004
The Man Who Celebrated Red Barber: Aug. 2, 2004
A Paean To HBO & ESPN: July 26, 2004
A Visit With A Music Man in London Town: July 5, 2004
An Homage to Roger Bannister: July 5, 2004
A Soccer Innocent Abroad: June 28, 2004
Let's Not Forget Sam Nahem: June 14, 2004
The Sad, Sad Tale of Smarty Jones: June 7, 2004
There Once Was A Horse: May 31, 2004
The Japanese in the Press Box: May 24, 2004
Smarty at the Preakness: May 17, 2004
Charley Smash: May 17, 2004
Charting the Races: May 10, 2004
Oops! This Tout Was No Smarty Pants: May 3, 2004
The Great Chocolate-Covered Graham Cracker Tasting: May 3, 2004
...And the Winner of the Kentucky Derby is...:April 26, 2004
Opening Week Walkabout at the Ball Park: April 19, 2004
(Rotisserie) Baseball is MY National Pasttime: April 12, 2004
Our 'Sissy' President?: April 5, 2004
Baseball at the Supreme Court: March 29, 2004
Baseball, Steroids and the Union: March 15, 2004
A Tip of the Hat to Howard Dean: March 8, 2004
Let Us Now Praise Larry Ritter: March 1, 2004
SUPER BOWL XXXVIII: Feb. 2, 2004
Five Nominees for the Hall of Fame: Jan. 19, 2004
Some Short Shots in Sundry Directions: Jan. 5. 2004

2003
The Spirit of Nixon Lives...on Left Lapels: Dec. 21, 2003

A Night at the Fights--Hearthside with HBO: Dec. 8, 2003
This is the Weekend of MY Big Game: Nov. 17, 2003
Ten Events That Flowered in The Garden: Oct. 26, 2003
Innings To Die For: Oct. 20, 2003
Shoemaker and Arcaro: Oct. 20, 2003
The 'Swoosh' Could Be America's Salvation: Oct. 13, 2003
Curse of the Closer: Oct. 6, 2003
The Ring Judging Follies: Sept. 29, 2003
A Communist Sports Writer: Sept. 22, 2003
Pity All News Junkies Abroad: Sept. 15, 2003
Some Ravings of An Irate Left Fielder: Sept. 8, 2003
The IRED Ratings Strike Again: Aug. 25, 2003
Scrooge Rides Again!: Aug. 18, 2003
A Weekend on the Road with Howard Dean Groupies: Aug. 11, 2003
The Seabiscuit That Never Was: Aug. 4, 2003

When Hillary Met Costas: July 28, 2003
Mel Ott--His Record is Fading: July 21, 2003
Chickenhawks on Parade: July 14, 2003
The Life and Times of the Copyboy Seven: July 7, 2003
Remembering: Two Great Men: June 30, 2003

The Eatery of Sports Legends: June 23, 2003
Funny Cide Failed, but NBC Saved the Day: June 9, 2003
Presenting the Preakness: May 19, 2003
Rooting For A Triple Crown Win: May 12, 2003
NBC's Kentucky Derby...A Scorecard: May 5, 2003
Grisham Must Be A Fan of Stan the Man: April 21, 2003
Stan's Letter: April 14, 2003
The Mystery of Paul Revere's Horse: April 14, 2003
A Left-Fielder's 2003 Opening Day: April 7, 2003
Baseball is Icummen In: March 31, 2003
More Truth From Inside Iraq: March 24, 2003

Chicago--I Love the Razzle Dazzle Razzmatazz: March 17, 2003
Bush vs. Saddam: March 10, 2003
Jim Brown & Me: March 3, 2003
My Calaveras County Jumping Frog Adventure: Feb. 17, 2003
Gambling and A Little Reality: Feb. 10, 2003
An Asylum for Saddam...and Bush?: Feb. 3, 2003
The Super Bowl: Jan. 27, 2003
When Some Silence Might Be Golden: Jan. 13, 2003
New Jersey, New Jersey: It Was A Football Paradise: Jan. 6, 2003

2002
Faces in the Crowd--2002: Dec. 30, 2002

Classic Reruns--in the Nick of Time: Dec. 16, 2002
The One and Only Christmas Stakes: Dec. 16, 2002
A Night in the Control Room with Roone Arledge: Dec. 6, 2002
A Sports Scribe Rare Was Old George Phair: Dec. 2, 2002
The Cuban Baseball Days of Ernest Hemingway: Nov. 25, 2002
An Appreciation (almost) of the Pick Six Rogues: Nov. 18, 2002
New York, New York is Outsmarting Itself: Nov. 11, 2002
All the World Loves Sandy Koufax...Well, Almost: Nov. 4, 2002
A Day at the Races: Oct. 28, 2002

The Cyclops of TV's World Series Sees Everything: Oct. 21, 2002
A Triumph for Anti-Yankee Fans: Oct. 7, 2002
North to Alaska!: Sept. 30, 2002
Justice for Merkle: Sept. 23, 2002
I'll Fly No Flag on Sept. 11: Sept. 9, 2002
A Day at the Races in Vietnam: Aug. 19, 2002
Rating the World's Flags: Aug. 19, 2002
The Stuff of Dreams: Aug. 12, 2002
Philadelphia Philly Phans are Phun-Filled Phanatics: Aug. 5, 2002
Off the Road with Jack Kerouac: July 21, 2002
A Measured Look at Ted Williams, Mortal Slugger: July 14, 2002
Broadway Bill: July 14, 2002

The Wound That Won't Stop Festering: June 30, 2002
Top Jock Jerry Bailey & the $269.20 Payoff: June 16, 2002
Rooting Against A Triple Crown: June 2, 2002
Ira Berkow's Bountiful Book: May 26, 2002
IRED No. 2: May 12, 2002
Curious Baseball News: May 5, 2002

Don Zimmer, Race Track Man?: April 28, 2002
A Schmooze Conversation about Barry Bonds: April 21, 2002
Baseball Memories Are Made of This: April 14, 2002
Thucydides Had Nothing on Woody Broun: March 31, 2002
Vacationer in Vietnam: March 24, 2002
Isaacstan Frozen Out of Winter Olympics!: Feb. 17, 2002
A Night of Boxing in London: Feb. 17, 2002
Pardon Me if I Don't Warm Up to the Winter Olympics: Feb. 10, 2002
A Sports Idol Who Was Loved at Home: Feb. 3, 2002
Are We Ready for TV's Death Channel?: Jan. 27, 2002
What's in A Name? What About Joe?: Jan. 13, 2002

2001
Ali, the Movie, Wakes Up Some Echoes: Dec. 30, 2001

In Baseball the Rich Get Richer--It's Just Business: Dec. 23, 2001
The Coming of Age of Isaacstan: Dec. 16, 2001
Pro Football is Better on the Tube: Dec. 9, 2001
This Young Woman Has Some Racing Pedigree: Dec. 2, 2001
A Passionate Plea to Clean Up Boxing: Nov. 18, 2001
The Premier of Isaacstan Has A Dilemma: Nov. 11, 2001
New York World Series: Oct. 28, 2001
Reflecting on Terror 2: Oct. 21, 2001
Budd Schulberg: Back in the Ring Again: Oct. 14, 2001
Reflecting on Terror: Sept. 30, 2001
Tracking Down the Elusive 'Walk-off Home Run': Sept. 9, 2001
There Once Was A Tennis Player from Nepal: Sept. 2, 2001
The Great Toll-Booth Shotmakers Are A Dying Breed: Aug. 26, 2001
Sudden Death Madness: Aug. 5, 2001
Bobby Valentine's Mini Hall of Fame: July 29, 2001
A Day at the Giants' Xanadu by the Sea: July 22, 2001
Revisiting the Shot Heard 'round the World: July 8, 2001
Some Great Days in Brooklyn: July 1, 2001
The Isaacs Ratings: June 24, 2001
The Belmont Stakes: June 10, 2001
They Still Carry Brown Paper Bags: June 3, 2001
The Dazzling Race Calls of Tom Durkin: June 3, 2001
The Legendary Seabiscuit: May 27, 2001
The Preakness: May 20, 2001
Billy Crystal's '61*' Isn't the One I Remember: May 6, 2001
Bobby Riggs wasn't such a buffoon after all: April 8, 2001
All-Time  Dream Team: April 1, 2001
CALL TO ARMS!: March 25, 2001
There Once Was A Man Named Luisetti: March 11, 2001
Playing the Whining Game: March 4, 2001
Carter vs. Giardello...One More Time: Feb. 25, 2001
 Sublimely Preposterous Sports News: Feb. 11, 2001
A Statue to Honor Two Boys of Summer: Feb. 4, 2001
CLASH of the TITANS: Jan. 21, 2001
The Passing of A Giant: Jan. 7, 2001

2000
My Advice to All Gridvid Widows: Dec. 31, 2000

Pete Rose: Dec. 10, 2000
Hit This Sign & Win A New Suit!: Nov. 10, 2000
Helen Wills Moody: Nov. 3, 2000
Joe DiMaggio: Oct. 27, 2000
How Tim McCarver Became A Kvetch!: Oct.16, 2000
The Olympic Games: Supermarket of Sports: Sept. 15, 2000
Show Us El Dinero!: Aug. 8, 2000
A Visit to the Headwaters of the Hooligan Tide: June 29, 2000

 Ann Jillian

 

Farewell to Robert Goulet (with Andy Murcia): Nov. 19, 2007
Memories of Merv (with Andy Murcia): Aug. 20, 2007
An Open Letter to My Sweet Father: June 11, 2007
Reflections: May 21, 2007
Remembering Barbara McNair (with Andy Murcia): Feb. 19, 2007
My Date With Destiny--21 Years Later: Oct. 16, 2006
Remembering Aaron Spelling (with Andy Murcia): July 3, 2006
Remembering 'Baby' Jessica (with Andy Murcia): Feb. 6, 2006
Johnny Carson & Me (with Andy Murcia): Jan. 24, 2005
How I Became A Columnist: Dec. 6, 2004
Father's Day: June 14, 2004
Ann Miller Was Funny!: Feb. 2, 2004 (with Andy Murcia)
Penny Singleton--A Woman of Great Faith: Nov. 17, 2003
Bless You, Donald O'Connor (with Andy Murcia): Oct. 6, 2003
"Little Ann: You Are About to Enter 'The Twilight Zone'": Aug. 26, 2002
Loving Uncle Miltie: March 31, 2002
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring: March 17, 2002
Christmas 2001--A Time for Healing: Dec. 23, 2001
Some of My Co-Stars Behaved Like Animals!: Oct. 7, 2001
The 'Gypsy' in My Soul: Aug. 19, 2001
Ann's Adventures in 'Toyland': Aug. 12, 2001
Mama & Me: A Loving Memory: Aug. 5, 2001
In Praise of Silent Heroes: June 24, 2001
Rehab Commando!: Dec. 17, 2000
Farewell to A Friend: Steve Allen: Nov.22, 2000
Close Encounters of the Clint Kind: Oct. 11, 2000
My Son, The Hollywood Guy: Aug. 7, 2000
My Dinner with the Reagans: July 24, 2000
Guilty Pleasures: July 13, 2000
Some Thoughts on Turning 50: June 13, 2000
Into the War Zone with Bob Hope: May 26, 2000

 Michael Johnson

 

The Cliburn Conundrum: June 15, 2009
Report on Cannes 2009: May 28, 2009
The French Work Ethic: May 18, 2009
The Coco Chanel Movie Boom: May 11, 2009
Salman Rushie--Thriving While Condemned: May 4, 2009
Be A 'Stand-Up' Guy: April 20, 2009
Latte, Cappuchino...or 911?: April 13, 2009
Why We Dislike Banks: March 23, 2009
Go Ahead, Laugh It Away!" March 16, 2009
Shocks of the Near Future: March 9, 2009
France Presents Its Movie Awards: March 2, 2009
A British Blow To Free Speech: March 2, 2009
The Open-Minded Future: Feb. 9, 2009
The Enduring Limb of The Divine Sarah: Feb. 2, 2009
Has Sarko's Rise Reached Its Waterloo?: Jan. 26, 2009
The Gypsy Dilemma: Dec. 8, 2008
American Power Abroad: Nov. 17, 2008
The Obama Victory--How It Happened: Nov. 10, 2008
Laughter As Medicine (Updated): Oct. 6, 2008
The Initiation of Sarah: Sept. 15, 2008
Tattoos Are Making Noos: Sept. 15, 2008
Ms. Dati's 'Blessed Event': Sept. 8, 2008
McCain's Astonishing Running Mate: Sept. 1, 2008
The Biden Choice: Aug. 25, 2008
Piano By Starlight: Aug. 25, 2008
Tracking Down Solzhenitsyn: Aug. 18, 2008
Everything's Coming Up Jesus!: Aug. 11, 2008
The Everlasting Appeal of Stendhal: Aug. 4, 2008
An Addiction That's Now Cool: July 14, 2008
When A Frog Is Not A Frog: June 30, 2008
Le Holiday Dinner From Hell: June 16, 2008
Why, It's Horse, Of Course!: June 9, 2008
Demolition Man: May 26, 2008
Montaigne Rises Again: May 19, 2008
An Anglo-Saxon in A Latin World: May 12, 2008
The Echoing Genius of Bernard Hermann: May 5, 2008
A Martian Calls: April 21, 2008
Global Warming--The Safer Bet: March 24, 2008
Pity Us Billionaires: March 17, 2008
Confessions of A Conservative: March 10, 2008
Les Oscars de France: March 3, 2008
Revisiting A French National Nightmare: Feb. 25, 2008
"West Side Story": Feb. 18, 2008
War Surplus--Nazi Style: Feb. 11, 2008
An Adjustment For the French Work Ethic: Jan. 28, 2008
The French Eat Up Celebrity Culture: Jan. 21, 2008
Is Good Cheese on the Way Out?: Jan. 7, 2008
When Holiday Tunes Infest Your Brain: Dec. 17, 2007
Lyke Magazine--A Hatchery For Talent: Dec. 3, 2007
Where Did All the Good Craftsmen Go: Nov. 26, 2007
Sarkozy's Women: Nov. 19, 2007
Memories of 'Peanuts': Oct. 29, 2007
The Growing Lure of 'Deathsites': Oct. 22, 2007
You Are Now Entering the French Bullfight Zone: Oct. 3, 2007
Mr. Johnson Goes Walking: Sept. 17, 2007
The Great European Butt Hunt: Sept. 3, 2007
So Long, Sara Jane: Aug. 20, 2007
France and the Occult: Aug. 6, 2007
Do You Really Want To Live To Be 100?: July 16, 2007
Defending Against Murdoch: July 9, 2007
His First All-Grape Infusion: July 2, 2007
The Chinese Are Coming, The Chinese Are Coming!: May 28, 2007
Beginning the Sarkozy Era: May 14, 2007
Death to Corks?: April 23, 2007
Sea Story: March 26, 2007
Brush Up On Your Montesquieu, Mr. Bush: March 19, 2007
The World-Wide Wonder Contest: March 12, 2007
Rivals For Power in France: Feb. 5, 2007
Arrachage!: Jan. 22, 2007
True Confessons--The Reporter As P.R. Man: Jan. 15, 2007
France24: Jan. 8, 2007
The International 'Borat' Brouhaha: Dec. 18, 2006
Ah, France! How Sweet It Was!: Dec. 4, 2006
Bagdad Cafe--The Musical: Nov. 20, 2006
Bush's Plan To Tame Media 'Reptiles': Oct. 30, 2006
Lady Presidents' Summit: Oct. 16, 2006
Can She Be the Next Presdient of France?: Oct. 9, 2006
Motoring With Megwind: Oct. 2, 2006
The Worldwise SUV Menace: Sept. 4, 2006
Racing 'mones: Aug. 28, 2006
Cranky Old Man? Sign of Intelligence!: Aug. 21, 2006
The Book Business--Not Dead Yet!: Aug. 14, 2006
CNN's Super Scooper: Aug. 7, 2006
Who Really Knows the News?: July 3, 2006
And Now For The Placenta Story...:June 26, 2006
Yanks Take Gas at Cannes: May 30, 2006
The Language Issue: May 29, 2006
Requiem For A Featherweight: May 22, 2006
Our White House...in France?: May 10, 2006
Condi Loses It?: May 10, 2006
The Fallout From Chirac's Surrender: April 20, 2006
The Pope's Privates: April 3, 2006
Is the AP Wire Short-Circuiting?: March 27, 2006
French Wine Industry Imperiled?: March 20, 2006
A Trembling Nation: March 6, 2006
The Resurrection of the Dissidents: Feb. 20, 2006
'Good Night and Good Luck': Feb. 6, 2006
If I Coached England's Soccer Team...: Jan. 30, 2006
Relic of A War: Jan. 9, 2006
The Joy of Book Burning: Dec. 19, 2005
The Great French Car-Torching Debate (with Robert Taylor): Dec. 5, 2005
Larry King--The Celebrity's Friend: Dec. 5, 2005
Revolt of the Ignored: Nov. 14, 2005
Oh, My Aching...Thumb?: Oct. 31, 2005
Making A Home in Bordeaux: Oct. 24, 2005
Meow! Can We Talk?: Sept. 12, 2005

LETTERS FROM LONDON:
Plain English: May 30, 2005

The Expatriate Test: May 23, 2005
The Strange Case of the Battered Pilot: May 16, 2005
CAUGHT! By the Parking Nazis: April 11, 2005
Get Yourself A Book Club: March 21, 2005
Happiness Overkill?: March 7, 2005
So Long, Gonzoman: Feb. 28, 2005
Legendary Maxwell Perkins: Jan. 31, 2005
Johnson-Taylor III (with Robert Taylor): Jan. 24, 2005
The People We Most Want To See Less of in 2005 (with staff): Jan. 10, 2005

'B'-Movies 2004: Jan. 3, 2005
Saving the Foxes: Dec. 20, 2004
Mr, Rather: In the Name of God, Just Go!: Dec. 6, 2004
The Hallowed Practice of Smacking: Nov. 29, 2004
Wild Turkey Dinner: Nov. 22, 2004
My 'Frozen Shoulder' Syndrome: Nov. 8, 2004
"The Woman in White": Sept. 27, 2004
Laziness is My Middle Name: Aug. 30, 2004
The Other Olympiad: Aug. 23, 2004
Big Primes, Big Payoff: Aug. 9, 2004
The Other Career of Poet Pablo Neruda: July 26, 2004
In A French Bookshop: June 28, 2004
A Tall Story: June 14, 2004
Impressions of America--2004: May 31, 2004
Abu Ghraib--Crisis in Command?: May 17, 2004

Look Out! Here Come the Easterners!:May 10, 2004
Editors on the Defensive: April 26, 2004
A Coalition Wobbles: April 19, 2004
Brits and Yanks Failing History: April 12, 2004
Aliens R Us: April 5, 2004
Alistair Cooke: The Final Chapter?: March 29, 2004
England's New Age of Scum: March 15, 2004
Get Set For Identity Crisis: March 1, 2004
It's the Ever-Popular Joe Bob: Feb. 16, 2004
Religious War...Over Headscarves?: Feb. 2, 2004
Vengeance is Mine: Jan. 19, 2004
The Practice of 'Mathturbation': Jan. 5, 2004
Christmas Fare Indeed...Dec. 21, 2003
Both Sides Now (with Robert Taylor): Dec. 8, 2003
I Pass For Canadian!: Nov. 10, 2003
The BBC Turns Timid: Oct. 26, 2003
Fairwelle, Inglesh: Oct. 13, 2003
Remembering Plimpton: Oct. 6, 2003
Girls Who 'Kiss for Money': Sept. 29, 2003
The United States--One Year Later: Sept. 22, 2003
How the Red Sox Killed A Grandmother: Sept. 15, 2003
England Gagging on Too Much News: Aug. 18, 2003
Jerry Springer: An Opera?: Aug. 4, 2003
Mystery of the Dead Scientist: July 28, 2003
The Ever-so-proper Cool of Tim Henman: July 14, 2003
English Law is Still 'A Ass': June 23, 2003
There's An Upside to House-Hunting in France: June 9, 2003
TV and the Iraq War: April 21, 2003
Truth--The First Casualty in Iraq: March 31, 2003
The Spooky Art: March 31, 2003
Mixed Signals From Paris: Feb. 24, 2003
Why Can't They Be More Like Us?: Feb. 10, 2003 (with Robert Taylor)
Blimey! Gun-Totin' Brits?: Jan. 27, 2003
In Celebration of English Humor: Jan. 6, 2003
Santa Bombs in the Tyrolean Alps: Dec. 16, 2002

Political Suicide on the Crowded Streets of London: Nov. 4, 2002
Stringing Words Together: Oct. 14, 2002
Killing Little Girls: Sept. 30, 2002
How About A Little Velvet in the U.S. Iron Fist?: Sept. 9, 2002
My Country, Right or Wrong: July 28, 2002
When is A War Not A War?: June 30, 2002
Laughter as Medicine--The Ultimate Test: June 23, 2002
The 88-tooth Monster Rides Again: May 26, 2002
Why the Catholic Church Needs A Good Shake-up: May 19, 2002
Betrayed Again By the Business World: April 14, 2002
Gosford Park: March 17, 2002
My Daughter Enters the Ring: Feb. 17, 2002
Return of the Little Prince: Feb. 17, 2002
London Taxis & the Art of the 10-Minute Monologue: Jan. 27, 2002
London's New 'F'-Word: Federalism: Jan. 6, 2002
Helsinki in Winter: Dec. 23, 2001
Learning to Live Abroad Starts with Some 'Unlearning': Dec. 2, 2001
Why the British Are Confused About the War on Terrorism: Nov. 18, 2001
The Pianist: March 17, 2003

On Writing: How To Make Them Stop Breathing: Dec. 2, 2002

(also see BOOK EXCERPTS)

 Joyce Kiefer

 

Finding Our Personal 'Oregon Trail': June 15, 2009
Happy 100th Birthday, Dr. Bentel: May 4, 2009
Discovering the Real Florida: April 6, 2009
The Decline and Fall of Penmanship: Jan. 26, 2009
The Fundamentals of A Merry Christmas: Dec. 22, 2008
The Day the Fates Had Their Way With Me: Dec. 1, 2008
The Bad Old Days of Halloween: Oct. 27, 2008
Adieu, Apples; Hello, Grapes?: Sept. 8, 2008
The Rich Tapestry of Winnemucca: Sept. 1, 2008
Memories Of A Frontier Woman: July 21, 2008
The 31-Hour Day: May 26, 2008
Is Easter Becoming Just Nostalgia?: March 17, 2008
The Registration Rush--For Kindergarten?: Feb. 11, 2008
In Search of the Perfect Pet: Jan. 7, 2008
Houses Are Not Homes: Nov. 26, 2007
Goin' To Wisconsin: Oct. 15, 2007
Joyce's Very Excellent Cellphone Adventure: Sept. 17, 2007
Postcards From the Road: Sept. 3, 2007
Welcome to Alcatraz!: July 30, 2007
Back to Grade School: May 21, 2007
If Your Son's in Iraq...: April 2, 2007
Neurasthenia Anyone?: March 26, 2007
Best 1944: Feb. 19, 2007
The Lonely Beauty of Antelope Island: Jan. 22, 2007
Blue Christmas: Dec. 18, 2006
A 'Singleton' Speaks Out: Dec. 4, 2006
So This Is Washington: Oct. 30, 2006
The Girl Grads of Mercy High: Sept. 25, 2006
The Last Camping Trip?: Sept. 4, 2006
No Clothes For the Wedding!: Aug. 14, 2006
Trains That Pass in Summertime: July 3, 2006
Always in My Heart: June 12, 2006
Recipes As Gateways: April 20, 2006
Snowbound: March 20, 2006
Make Room For Granny: Feb. 13, 2006
Our Assault On A Queen: Dec. 5, 2005
Still Pals...After All Those Years: Oct. 31, 2005

Exploring Utah's Remote Canyons: Oct. 5, 2005
New Orleans...Before Disaster: Sept. 5, 2005
Those Vacation Cravings: Aug. 22, 2005
A Pilgrim's Report: Aug. 1, 2005
Mario the Writer and His Family: June 27, 2005
Bridal Bouquet: May 30, 2005
Our Joyce--Book Club Defender!: May 2, 2005
The Man From the Moon: April 18, 2005
Pope John Paul II--A Personal Tribute: April 4, 2005
On the Road in Winter: Feb. 14, 2005
The People We Most Want To See Less of in 2005 (with staff): Jan. 10, 2005
Pictures From An Album: Dec. 6, 2004
What You Need To Make Cranberry Chutney: Nov. 22, 2004
Trailing the Wild Horses: Oct. 11, 2004
North to Alaska: Aug. 30, 2004
Waiting For Florence: Aug. 9, 2004
Where Skunks Go To Die: July 26, 2004
Epitath For A Hungry Lion: May 24, 2004
Shrines For A Shameful Past: May 24, 2004
Best of Show: May 3, 2004
Everybody's Irish on St. Paddy's Day: March 15, 2004
Prom Night in the Twilight Zone: Feb. 2, 2004
A Christmas Lesson: Dec. 21, 2003
Our Modern Maturity: Dec. 8, 2003
Report From Election Central: Oct. 3, 2003
A Wedding in Paradise...Without SPAM: Sept. 8, 2003
Wandering the Redwood Empire: Aug. 18, 2003
The Story of Carmen: July 14, 2003
The House of Four Generations: May 12, 2003
Guilty Pleasures: General Hospital: April 21, 2003
Shadows Over the Homefront: March 24, 2003
The 'Dark Energy' of A Child's Imagination: March 3, 2003
The News Nobody Wants To Hear: Feb. 3, 2003
Resurrecting an American Christmas: Dec. 16, 2002
On Writing: Can the Gift Be in the Genes?: Dec. 2, 2002
To Have and Have Not: Nov. 11, 2002
So Much Italy...so little time: Oct. 21, 2002
When in Rome...:Oct. 7, 2002
Things Like That Don't Happen in Real Life: Sept. 9, 2002
The Lure of Lonesome Highways: July 28, 2002
Divine Secrets of the Black Masque Sisterhood: June 23, 2002
Why I Go to Mass: May 19, 2002
My Husband's Passion is for A Baseball Team: April 21, 2002
Mourning Electra: March 24, 2002
Return to Salt Lake: 40 Years Later: Feb. 24. 2002

 LEN KLEMPNAUER

 

A Step Closer To Perfection: Nov. 10, 2008
The 2008 Election Issues That Everybody Ignores: May 26, 2008
How About Hillary's Bosnia Adventure?: March 31, 2008
They Always Forget One Classic: Feb. 18, 2008
120 Channels--And Nothing To Watch: Jan. 28, 2008
Learning the Awful Truth About Santa Claus: Dec. 17, 2007
Tracing the Family Tree: Dec. 10, 2007
How To End the Iraq War Quickly: Nov. 26, 2007
One Man's Quest For 15 Minutes of Fame: Sept. 3, 2007
Why A 49er Fan Stays Rabid: Aug. 6, 2007
With Dad at the Wheel on Route 66: June 11, 2007

The Challenges of English: May 28, 2007
Sunset Carson Rides Again: April 23, 2007
Career Women of 1954: April 16, 2007
Revisiting the Fifties--Tough Choices For Women, Part Two: April 16, 2007
Revisiting the Fifties--Tough Choices For Women, Part One: April 9, 2007
Mr. Bad News For Business: April 2, 2007
The Second Time Around: March 5, 2007
Jack Warden--He Died Without An Oscar: Feb. 19, 2007
Hey, Boomers! Welcome To My World!: Jan. 29, 2007
We're Dreaming of A Plastic Christmas: Dec. 18, 2006
How the Public Perceives the Press: Dec. 4, 2006
Just Plain Coffee, Bub!: Nov. 13, 2006
Farewell To Penmanship: Oct. 23, 2006
Learning To Love Your Name: Oct. 9, 2006
50 Years Worth of High School Reunions: Sept. 25, 2006
A Rationale For Running: Sept. 4, 2006
A Stage Mother's Lost Dreams: Aug. 28, 2006
The Private World of A Man's Closet: Aug. 7, 2006
Are You Ready For Some (Real) Football: July 3, 2006
My 'Lost' Drive-In Summers: June 19, 2006
My Fight With City Hall: June 19, 2006
Summer on The Boardwalk: June 5, 2006
Our Teachers Deserve A Lot More Respect: May 29, 2006
Teachers You Can't Forget: May 29, 2006
When Students Were Soldiers: April 20, 2006
Remember the Frog Stand and the Burpee: April 20, 2006
My Teen Faves: April 3, 2006
The Year the Saxophones Went Away: April 3, 2006
How Len Became A Sharpshooter: March 20, 2006
My Honeymoon in Hell: March 20, 2006
Our Favorite Comic Book Heroes: March 6, 2006
The Day I Became Invisible: March 6, 2006
Martin Balsam: Feb. 27, 2006

 GREG LAUFER

 

On the Road in Gambia: March 12, 2007
Into the Barrios: Feb. 6, 2006
Deja Vu and 'The Motorcycle Diaries': Nov. 8, 2004
Back in One Piece: Aug. 9, 2004
Innocents Abroad--The Next Generation: May 31, 2004
Ice Cream & Guerilla Gunfire: May 24, 2004
Tragedy on the Road in Ecuador: May 17, 2004
Dangerous Roads in Bolivia: May 10, 2004

 Kinney Littlefield

 


Unnatural Act: Sept. 9, 2002
Where Was God on Sept. 11?: Aug. 26, 2002
"Gentleman's Agreement": March 17, 2002
The Blue Cashmere Sweater: Feb. 10, 2002
PBS' Noir 'Othello': Jan. 20, 2002
A Christmas Tree in An Arab Village: Dec. 23, 2001

Violence in Israel--Up Close and Personal: Dec. 23, 2001
The View From A Hill in Jerusalem: Dec. 2, 2001
24: Dec. 2, 2001
Digging the Darkness: The X-Files Returns: Nov. 4, 2001
Reflecting on Terror: Oct. 14, 2001
Mourning A Death in the 'Frasier' Family: Oct. 7, 2001
Reflecting on Terror: Sept. 30, 2001
PBS' 'Evolution': Sept. 30, 2001
"Band of Brothers": Sept. 9, 2001
Let's Go 'Six Feet Under'!: Aug. 19, 2001
When TV Stars Bomb at Playing Themselves: Aug. 5, 2001
Showtime's Ethnic Dramas: June 24, 2001
Welcome to MY World: Sex & the City: June 10, 2001
The Beast: June 3, 2001
"Second Sight" Series 2: April 1, 2001
Inspector Morse: The Remorseful Day: Feb. 18, 2001
 What's So Tempting About Vapidity?: Feb. 4, 2001
TV Finally Tells the Elian Story Straight Up & Savvy: Jan. 28, 2001

 

 CHUCK MCFADDEN

 


2009:
Shopping Malls With Wings?: June 29, 2009

Let's Show A Little Respect for Basil Rathbone: June 1, 2009
Specter the Defector: May 11, 2009
Stop the Presses!: May 4, 2009
What, No Chemicals?: April 13, 2009
How Really Important is How You Look?: April 6, 2009
Culture Clash at the AIG Corral: March 23, 2009
The 'Catch Phrase' Menace: March 9, 2009
with Mary Lou Mangold

A Blowhard Floats To the Top: Feb. 9, 2009
Tieless and Proud of It: Feb. 2, 2009
21 Guns For Obama: Jan. 26, 2009
The Troubled GOP Future: Jan. 19, 2009
The Seer Strikes Again: Jan. 12, 2009

2008:
Make Room For Mediocrity: Dec. 8, 2008

The View From A Couple Hundred Columns Later: Dec. 1, 2008
The Epic Stupidity of the Big Three: Nov. 24, 2008
Aftermath--Where Does the GOP Go From Here?: Nov. 10, 2008
Divided America: Oct. 27, 2008
The Final Showdown: Oct. 16, 2008
McCain-Obama 2: Oct. 8, 2008
The Baden-Palin Showdown: Oct. 6, 2008
The Campaign So Far (with Doug Willis): Oct. 6, 2008
Russia's 'Sarah' Paranoia: Sept. 22, 2008
Sarah Palin--A Mistake That Worked?: Sept. 8, 2008
...And Now the G.O.P.: Sept. 1, 2008 (with Doug Willis)
So, It's Joe Biden: Aug. 25, 2008
What Convention?: Aug. 25, 2008 (with Doug Willis)
Aftermath--The John Edwards Meltdown: Aug. 18, 2008
Nitpicking For America!: Aug. 11, 2008
Our Mysterious New TV Set: July 14, 2008
Candidate McCain, Computer Illiterate: June 23, 2008
L'Affaire Stone!: June 9, 2008
Will the G.O.P. Stoop To Conquer: May 19, 2008
The Awkward Art of Compromise: May 12, 2008
Cairo's Traffic Chaos: April 21, 2008
Fate and the Political Appointee: March 17, 2008
Victoria's Secret Cleans Up?: March 17, 2008
The Confoundedly Impressive William F. Buckley, Jr.: March 3, 2008
The Man Who Found Dr. Livingstone: Feb. 25, 2008
"Cavalcade": Feb. 18, 2008

Pouting At the Polls?: Feb. 11, 2008
An Overdose of Nice?: Feb. 3, 2008
Five Modern American Myths: Jan. 28, 2008
Let's Dream the Impossible Dream (with Doug Willis): Jan. 21, 2008
Real Men 2008: Jan. 7, 2008

2007:
Those Celebrity Endorsements (with Doug Willis): Dec. 17, 2007

Shape Up, Santa!: Dec. 17, 2007
Tough and Stupid: Dec. 10, 2007
Caught in the Web: Dec. 3, 2007
Fashions For Candidates: Nov. 26, 2007
Have A Big, Fat, Happy Thanksgiving!: Nov. 19, 2007
How Life May Change During A Writers' Strike: Nov. 12, 2007
The P.R. Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight: Nov. 5, 2007
A Californian On the Oregon Trail: Oct. 15, 2007
Ken Burns' "The War": Oct. 5, 2007
How the Brains of Liberals & Conservatives Really Work: Sept. 17, 2007
Are We Watching A Magic Show?: Sept. 3, 2007
Be Smart--Stop Eating!: Aug. 20, 2007
Look Who's Talking!: Aug. 6, 2007
More Actors For President?: July 2, 2007
'Tarting Up' the News: June 18, 2007
Feeding Frenzy For New York Tabloids: June 11, 2007
Our News I.Q. Dips Again: May 14, 2007
My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys: April 23, 2007
Chuck Does Vegas: April 9, 2007
The 'Law and Order' Candidate?: March 26, 2006
Can He Sew On A Button?: March 19, 2007
Payback For Ann Coulter?: March 12, 2007
A Gun Nut Gets Shot Down: March 5, 2007
"Little Miss Sunshine": Feb. 19, 2007
Notes On Another Scandal: Feb. 5, 2007
Bogart--50 Years Later: Jan. 29, 2007
Did Bush Get Out the Needle?: Jan. 29, 2007
The Incredible Shrinking Models: Jan. 8, 2007
My Wife's Favorite Candidate: Jan. 1, 2007
A Holiday Gift for American Reporters: Dec. 18, 2006
Ready For the Rich Life?: Dec. 4, 2006
Homogenized? O.K. For Milk, But Not Us!: Nov. 20, 2006
Christian Conservatives and The Foley Mess: Oct. 16, 2006
The Plutonian Blunder: Sept. 4, 2006
Canada's Gift to Hollywood: Aug. 28, 2006
Those People Who Buy Their Own Furniture (UGH!): Aug. 21, 2006
The Lieberman Defeat: Aug. 14, 2006
Will the F.C.C. Go To War Against 'The War'?: Aug. 7, 2006
Have We Got A Job For You!: June 26, 2006
Lift A Tab To Open? Not Likely!: June 5, 2006
Epitath For A Great TV Show: May 22, 2006
Vive La French Way?: April 20, 2006
I Guess My Invitation Got Lost in the Mail: March 27, 2006
Chuck Noble, Backstage Husband: March 20, 2006
Our Favorite Comic Book Heroes: March 6, 2006
Another Memoir: Feb. 20, 2006
Bush Rules Out Senate For Laura: Feb. 13, 2006
Razor Wars--2006: Feb. 6, 2006
An Industry Called Influence: Jan. 16, 2006
My Predictions for 2006: Dec. 5, 2005
Coming of Age...at 68: Oct. 10, 2005
Katrina's Big Winners and Losers: Sept. 19, 2005
The DOVE Revolution: Sept. 12, 2005
Katrina--A Bush Nightmare: Sept. 5, 2005
Pat Robertson and His Spooky Values: Aug. 29. 2005
Is 'Intelligent Design' Winning the Word War?: Aug. 22, 2005
First Cars Are Forever: Aug. 15, 2005
Keeping Balance in Our Universe: July 13, 2005
The Scoundrel's Favorite Refuge: July 4, 2005
Can GM Save Itself?: June 20, 2005
Slow Days in Journalism: May 30, 2005
A Future For Journalism?: May 23, 2005
In For the Long Haul: May 16, 2005
Celebrating Mr. Wodehouse: April 11, 2005
CASABLANCA--The Chinese Musical: March 21, 2005
The Shell Game Resurrected: March 7, 2005
The Incomparable David Niven: Feb. 28, 2005
Did I Tell You I Got A New Car?: Feb. 21, 2005
What's In A Word?: Feb. 7, 2005
Bush Privatizes Congress!: Jan. 31, 2005
The Ever-So-Cool Peter Gunn: Jan. 17, 2005
The People We Most Want To See Less of in 2005 (with staff): Jan. 10, 2005
Predictions 2005: Jan. 3, 2005
Those Contradictory Voters Out There: Dec. 6, 2004
France Bans Yanks From the Louvre: Nov. 29, 2004
Aftermath--The Cultural Divide: Nov. 8, 2004
Religion Comes to the Voting Booth: Oct. 27, 2004
Bush vs. Kerry--The Final Showdown: Oct. 19, 2004
Bush vs. Kerry, The Rematch: Oct. 11, 2004
Bush vs. Kerry, Round One: Oct. 4, 2004
Should Edwards Be Unleashed?: Sept. 20, 2004
Chuck's Convention Report Cards: Sept. 6, 2004
Here We Go Again!: Aug. 23, 2004
Cherchez le Fone?: June 28, 2004
The Great Bisby Brainstorm: May 10, 2004
London Rolls Out A Welcome Mat: May 3, 2004
The Great Veep Dilemma: April 5, 2004
Ride the Pink Elephant: March 15, 2004
Lucky, Lucky Republicans: March 1, 2004
Beware Martian Saboteurs!: Feb. 2, 2004
How About Some Original Ideas for Hollywood?: Jan. 19, 2004
Literary Deal of the Century: Jan. 5, 2004
Yasir Arafat, Fashion Trendsetter?: Dec. 8, 2003
Governator One--Rise of the New Machine?: Nov. 17, 2003
Trouble Ahead for Ah-Nold and George: Oct. 20, 2003
How To Understand the Recall: Oct. 6, 2003
Welcome to Banishment Island: Sept. 29, 2003
A Sea Change in U.S. Politics: Sept. 15, 2003
How We Look From Mars: Sept. 1, 2003
A Spirited Defense of A Golden State: Aug. 18, 2003
If It's Good Enough for the Boys....: Aug. 4, 2003
The Lesson of California's Recall Earthquake: July 28, 2003
The Twister Heading for Gray Davis: July 21, 2003
McFadden Goes to Russia, Part 3: July 14, 2003
McFadden Goes to Russia, Part 2: July 7, 2003
McFadden Goes to Russia: June 30, 2003
SARS--Look for the Silver Lining: May 19, 2003
In Politics, Pictures Count: May 19, 2003
The Phantom Veep Stalks Again: May 19, 2003
Bill Bennett's 'Book of Hyposcrisy': May 12, 2003
A Toast to the Ultimate Flack: April 21, 2003
Bye, Bye Concorde!: April 21, 2003
Pig Bladder Diplomacy: April 14, 2003
Darn That Republican Guard: April 7, 2003
Shock and Awe For Us All: March 31, 2003
War is Riveting!: March 24, 2003
Testament of An Oscar Slacker: March 17, 2003
The Fundamentalist Things Apply: March 10, 2003
It's All About Control: March 3, 2003
In Defense of France: Feb. 24, 2003
So You Want MORE Reality Shows?: Feb. 17, 2003
Hatred at First Sight: Feb. 3, 2003
WITHDRAW!: Jan. 27, 2003
Rules Are Made To Be Broken: Jan. 13, 2003

Callie--A Woman's Best Friend: Jan. 6, 2003
Here Come the Seven Dwarfs: Dec. 30, 2002
Trent, We Hardly Knew Ye...: Dec. 30, 2002
TV News: It Pays To Be Ignorant: Dec. 2, 2002
Come Again?: Nov. 25, 2002
Greasepaint Comes to Washington: Nov. 11, 2002

The Bracing Breeze of Sexual Scandal: Nov. 4, 2002
Saddamskedaddle: Oct. 14, 2002
Meathead vs. The Terminator: Sept. 30, 2002
Pres. Bush: Bigfoot of Diplomacy: Sept. 23, 2002
Here's to Negative Campaigning: Sept. 16, 2002
The Real Scoop on Amadeus: Aug. 26, 2002
Sex Isn't Selling Products Anymore?: Aug. 5, 2002

Disney Means Security!: July 28, 2002
Coming Clean--Corporate Style: July 21, 2002
Frankensteins & Their Little Monsters: July 14, 2002
The Consequences of Narrow Vision: July 7, 2002
Liars, Liars, Pants on Fire: June 30, 2002
The Patriotism Sweepstakes: June 23, 2002
Cell Phones or Hell Phones?: June 16, 2002
Beware Storm Clouds: June 9, 2002
A Movie Actor's Digital Dream (or nightmare?): June 2, 2002

My Wife, the Hairdo Guinea Pig: May 26, 2002
The Al-Joe Dialogues: May 19, 2002
The Joy of Being James Garner: May 12, 2002
Disinterested in Proper English?: May 5, 2002
Day of the Writer?: April 28, 2002
Ouch! It's His Real Opinion!: April 21, 2002
Impractical at Any Speed: April 14, 2002
Dudley Moore: March 31, 2002
Dark Days for Religion: March 31, 2002
Terror Comes in Color Schemes: March 24, 2002
Smile When You Say That...if You Still Can!: March 10, 2002
Hollywood's Blowing Smoke Again!: March 3, 2002
Is it True What They Say About...?:Feb. 24, 2002
The Myth of Full Disclosure: Feb. 17. 2002
Graft Ain't What It Used To Be in Washington: Feb. 10, 2002
This Just In: Money Does Buy Happiness!: Feb. 3, 2002
Our Enemies Need A History Lesson!: Jan. 27, 2002
Osama for President?: Jan. 20, 2002
Safe and Sane Pretzels?: Jan. 20, 2002
Is A Dumpster Dick Cheney's Manifest Destiny?: Jan. 13, 2002
Are You Ready for Warlord Chic?: Jan. 13, 2002

Gore's Whiskers: Reconsidered: Jan. 6, 2002
Don Rumsfeld, Alpha Male?: Dec. 30, 2001
God's Good News About Flat Earth: Dec. 23, 2001
Americans Love/Hate A Free Press: Dec. 16, 2001
Hollywood's Afghan War Project: Dec. 9, 2001
Bad Day for the Big Guy Upstairs: Dec. 2, 2001
I Love JAG: Nov. 22, 2001
A Yankee Tourist in China, Part 2: Nov. 18, 2001
A Yankee Tourist in China, Part 1: Nov. 11, 2001
Reflecting on Terror 4: Oct. 21, 2001
Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes: Oct. 14, 2001
Reflecting on Terror 2: Sept. 30, 2001
Reflecting on Terror 3: Sept. 30, 2001
Reflecting on Terror 1: Sept. 30, 2001
Check Our Guns? Isn't This Still America?: Sept. 9, 2001
The Menace of Familiar Voices: Sept. 2, 2001
All Hail the NEW Al Gore!: Aug. 26, 2001
Why is Public Education Wearing A Dunce Cap?: Aug. 19, 2001
Wake Up Call for Philip Morris?: Aug. 12, 2001
Why Do Republicans Have More Nightmares?: Aug. 5, 2001
Yikes! Our Daughter's Going to be An Intern in Congress: July 22, 2001
Welcome to the Negative News Era: July 8, 2001
With Women, Sizes Count: July 1, 2001
The Curious Case of Mr. David Manning: June 17, 2001
The House That Tom Built: June 10, 2001
Real Men Burn GAS!: May 27, 2001
In The Time of the Great Darkness: May 13, 2001
Governor Arnie: April 22, 2001
George W. on 'General Hospital'?: April 8, 2001
 Season of the Hick!: April 8, 2001
 Mr. Bush: Man of Changes: March 25, 2001
Are Men Wittier Than Women?: Feb. 11, 2001
Portrait of the Artist As A Teenage Sci-Fi Geek: Feb. 4, 2001
When they turn you off....Get it on!: Jan. 28, 2001
What's in A Word?: Jan. 21, 2001
 Doin' the Confirmation Conga!: Jan. 14, 2001
Pres. Bush & 'The West Wing': Dec. 24, 2000
Ins & Outs of the Bush-Gore Administration(s): Dec. 3, 2000
Our Fashion Statement: Take Nothing Seriously!: Nov. 20, 2000
Forecast for the Morning After the Election: Nov. 2, 2000
Do We Want A President... Or A Beer-Drinking Buddy?: Oct. 25, 2000
Understanding the Reporter Americanus: Oct. 16, 2000
Season of the Swing Voter: Oct. 6, 2000
In the Land of Open Mikes: Sept. 29, 2000
Radio Spots Before Our Eyes: Sept. 22, 2000
How To Be A Master Debater: Sept. 4, 2000
Me & My Miata vs. the Mazda Corporate Nannies: Aug. 29, 2000
William Powell: Aug. 22, 2000
How About A 'Survivor' TV Spectacle for 2004 Conventions?: Aug. 14, 2000
Was Ronald Reagan Always the Same Behind the Mask?: July 25, 2000

 PATRICK McFADDEN

 

The People We Most Want To See Less of in 2005 (with staff): Jan. 10, 2005
Starved For Soundbites: Aug. 30, 2004
Missile Defense!: Aug. 23, 2004
Nader as The Raider: March 15, 2004
Cam-Pain--This Time It's Really Gonna Hurt: March 1, 2004
Behold the Nut-Nibbling Nightmare!: Dec. 8, 2003
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: Oct. 26, 2003
It's G.I. George!: Aug. 25, 2003
The Woes of An Expatriate Californian: Aug. 18, 2003
An All-Time Office Blunder: Aug. 11, 2003
Saddam's Body Double: March 24, 2003
Dwight vs. Washington: March 24, 2003
France No Longer Counts: Feb. 24, 2003
Dog Bites Man; Man Shoots Himself?: Feb. 10, 2003
How Can I Go Wrong?: Dec. 2, 2002
Redeem Your Pennies From Heaven: Nov. 25, 2002
This May Be My Scariest Halloween: Oct. 28, 2002
The Many Faces of Tomorrow's Lawyers: Oct. 7, 2002
Reality TV--Isn't it Swell?: Aug. 5, 2002
Taking Care of Business: July 21, 2002
Mucho Macho Amok!: July 7, 2002

 RON MILLER

 

"The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane": June 29, 2009
When White Boy Singing Groups Ruled: June 8, 2009
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: May 29, 2009
My Ultimate List of Collectible Horror Films: May 18, 2009
The Long Lost Luis Bunuel Version of 'The Sound of Music': May 11, 2009
Hello, Manny! So Long, Ricky!: May 4, 2009
"Wallander": May 4, 2009
"Harper's Island": April 20, 2009
Remakes Are Us: April 13, 2009
Revolution For the Home Video Market: April 6, 2009
Joe Gores' "Spade & Archer": April 6, 2009
Robert B. Parker's "Night and Day": March 30, 2009
"The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency": March 23, 2009
"Silks": March. 16, 2009
Adjusting To Our Economic Meltdown: March 9, 2009
"The Clairvoyant": March 2, 2009
Oscarcast 2009: Feb. 23, 2009
"A Darker Domain": Feb. 23, 2009
One Magic Night with "How Green Was My Valley": Feb. 16, 2009
Dead Certain: Feb. 16, 2009
"King of the Zombies": Feb. 9, 2009

Tracing Perry Mason: Feb. 2, 2009
Last Count--Ingemar Johansson: Feb. 2, 2009
John Updike and the Angst of Suburban Life: Feb. 2, 2009
Shane Mosley, Miracle Worker: Jan. 26, 2009
"Murder By the Clock": Jan. 26, 2009
Patrick McGoohan: Jan. 19, 2009
The Elegant Ricardo Montalban: Jan. 19, 2009
He Who Must Be Reverred: Jan. 19, 2009
"The Price of Butcher's Meat": Jan. 19, 2009
"The Mysterious Doctor": Jan. 12, 2009
P.D. James' "The Private Patient": Jan. 5, 2009
The Passing Parade--2008: Jan. 5, 2009
"The Nanny Express": Jan. 5, 2009
"A Kiss At Midnight": Dec. 22, 2008
Ghosts of Christmases Past: Dec. 22, 2008
Heavyweight Curse Upon Us: Dec. 15, 2008
John Sturges--Up Close: Dec. 15, 2008
Major Horror: Dec. 15, 2008
The Golden Glow is Gone: Dec. 8, 2008
"Rough Weather": Dec. 8, 2008
The Phenomenon of 'Twilight': Dec. 8, 2008
"Front of the Class": Dec. 1, 2008
"The Christmas Choir": Dec. 1, 2008
The Changing Face of Mystery: Dec. 1, 2008
Writing For Millions: Dec. 1, 2008
"Fashion in Film": Nov. 24, 2008
"Moonlight & Mistletoe": Nov. 24, 2008
"Hangover Square": Nov. 24, 2008
"The Unseen Alistair Cooke": Nov. 17, 2008
"An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving": Nov. 17, 2008
"The 'Oldies But Goodies' Killer": Nov. 17, 2008
How Legends Are Made: Nov. 10, 2008
"Accidental Friendship": Nov. 10, 2008
An American Dream Comes True: Nov. 10, 2008
"Primal Fear": Oct. 27, 2008
Imported Horrors of the 21st Century: Oct. 27, 2008
Methuselah Whups the Champ Bigtime: Oct. 20, 2008
Will 'CSI' Survive the Changes?: Oct. 13, 2008
An Open Letter to John McCain: Oct. 13, 2008
"The Last Enemy": Oct. 6, 2008
Flirting With the Enemy: Oct. 6, 2008
Mike Hammer's Last Case?: Oct. 6, 2008
A Paul Newman Primer: Sept. 29, 2008
Talk About Drama!: Sept. 29, 2008
60 Years Is Enough!: Sept. 22, 2008
"Fringe": Sept. 22, 2008
Backstage at the Emmys: Sept. 15, 2008
HBO's "True Blood": Sept. 15, 2008
"Terminator--The Sarah Connor Chronicles": Sept. 15, 2008
Now the Real Fun Begins: Sept. 8, 2008
Who Stole the Real John McCain?: Sept. 1, 2008
Dear Chelsea, I Love You: Sept. 1, 2008
"The Furies": Sept. 1, 2008
China Gold, USA Mold: Aug. 25, 2008
Claude Lelouch's "Roman de Gare": Aug. 25, 2008
Ben Bova's "Mars Life": Aug. 25, 2008
"Vicky Cristina Barcelona": Aug. 18, 2008
"Dear Prudence": Aug. 18, 2008
Farewell Inspector Lynley: Aug. 11, 2008
Loving the Olympics: Aug. 11, 2008
Three Olympic Boxing Immortals: Aug. 4, 2008
The Most Unforgettable U.S. Olympic Boxers: Aug. 4, 2008
Cotto vs. Margarito--A Ring Classic: July 28, 2008
I Found It At The Movies: July 21, 2008
Jonathan Kellerman's "Compulsion": July 14, 2008
Ruth Rendell's "Not in the Flesh": July 7, 2008
Every Writer Has A Book Inside: July 7, 2008
The Last Days of "Foyle's War": June 30, 2008
"Read You Like A Book": June 30, 2008
"A Gunfighter's Pledge": June 30, 2008
The Elegant Majesty of Cyd Charisse: June 23, 2008
Revisiting A RadioThriller on TV: June 23, 2008
Elizabeth George's "Careless in Red": June 16, 2008
Return of Inspector Lewis: June 9, 2008
Radio's Greatest Gumshoes: May 26, 2008
"FINAL APPROACH": May 19, 2008
"SHARK SWARM": May 19, 2008
"IRON MAN": May 12, 2008
The Strange Story of Pier 23: May 12, 2008
Golden Boy Returns: May 5, 2008
The Complete Film Credits of Bernard Herrmann: May 5, 2008
Ten Movies You Can't Imagine Without Their Music: May 5, 2008
"The Gracie Allen Murder Case": April 21, 2008
Larger Than Life--Charlton Heston: April 7, 2008
A Fresh Taste of 'Wire in the Blood': April 7, 2008
Jules Dassin--Out of the Darkness: April 7, 2008
Henry Hathaway's 'Kiss of Death': March 31, 2008
Richard Widmark--Icon of Noir: March 31, 2008
Patrick Quentin's 'Black Widow': March 31, 2008
The Dark Side of Being Batman: March 24, 2008
Minette Walters' 'The Chameleon's Shadow': March 17, 2008
Sara Paretsky Breaks Through To The "Other Side": March 10, 2008
Let's Have A Clinton-Obama Merger!: March 10, 2008
Robert Parker's "Stranger in Paradise": March 3, 2008
"V--The Second Generation": March 3, 2008
Reviewing Oscarcast '08: Feb. 25, 2008
Two Dark Thrillers Critics Fumbled: Feb. 25, 2008
Forecasting the Oscars: Feb. 18, 2008
"Rocky": Feb. 18, 2008
"Juno": Feb. 18, 2008
"Michael Clayton": Feb. 18, 2008
"Atonement": Feb. 18, 2008
The Dark, Dark World of Sweeney Todd: Feb. 18, 2008
Drowning in A Party Caucus: Feb. 11, 2008
Why the 'Dream Ticket' Would Work: Feb. 4, 2008
What's New in Dark Video?: Feb. 4, 2008
Laura Crum's 'Chasing Cans': Jan. 28, 2008

Will the Real Dexter Please Stand Up?: Jan. 21, 2008
They Also Left Us: Jan. 14, 2008
Saluting Curtis Harrington: Jan. 14, 2008
Robert B. Parker's "Now and Then": Jan. 7, 2008
Ron's Darkest Christmas List: Dec. 17, 2007
The Remarkable Transformation of Meg Tilly: Dec. 10, 2007
The Search For Famous People: Dec. 3, 2007
"The Note": Dec. 3, 2007
"No Country For Old Men": Dec. 3, 2007
The Hollywood Memorabilia Items I Want Most: Dec. 3, 2007
Some Thoughts About A Man Named Nachman: Nov. 26, 2007
My Favorite American Mystery Authors: Nov. 26, 2007
The Boom Years?: Nov. 26, 2007
The Indestructible Ernest Borgnine: Nov. 19, 2007
The Legacy of Norman Mailer: Nov. 12, 2007
The Majesty of 'American Gangster': Nov. 12, 2007
The Last Hank Crosses Over: Nov. 12, 2007
Emergency Measures For TV Land: Nov. 12, 2007
TCM's Marvelous Month of Mystery: Nov. 5, 2007
Your All-Night Festival of Horror: Oct. 29, 2007
"Robodeer!": Oct. 29, 2007
Robert Liparulo's 'Deadfall': Oct. 22, 2007
Ten Mysteries That Ought To Be 'Born Again': Oct. 15, 2007
Three Voyages Into Darkness: Oct. 3, 2007
"The Brave One": Sept. 17, 2007
3:10 To Yuma: Sept. 17, 2007
Jane Wyman--An Appreciation: Sept. 17, 2007
Some Horror Remakes That Worked: Sept. 3, 2007
Remaking 'Halloween': Sept. 3, 2007
"Vow of Vengeance": Sept. 3, 2007
The Late, Great Bob Ligon: Aug. 20, 2007
Cornell Woolrich's 'Waltz into Darkness': Aug. 20, 2007

Thomas Perry's "Silence": Aug. 6, 2007
Ingmar Bergman--A Giant Falls: Aug. 6, 2007
'Evening' Goes Gently Into the Night: Aug. 6, 2007
"Cagney & Lacey"--The Inside Stuff: Aug. 6, 2007
King vs. Poe: July 30, 2007
The Complex 'Die Hard' Screen Saga: July 30, 2007
Old Blood, New Blood and Lots of Blood: July 16, 2007
Martin Cruz Smith's "Stalin's Ghost": July 16, 2007
Two Classic Mystery Series: July 9, 2007
"La Vie en Rose": July 9, 2007
Tami Hoag's 'The Alibi Man': July 2, 2007
Our Mysteries Through Foreign Eyes: June 25, 2007
A Star is Born? No. 1--Doris Day: June 25, 2007
Nancy Drew--The New Movie: June 18, 2007
Reliving A Boyhood Dream: June 18, 2007
My Dad's Secret Passion: June 11, 2007
'Foyle's War' Forever!: June 11, 2007
The Joys of Schlock Horror Movies: June 4, 2007
"You've Got A Friend": June 4, 2007
"Marco Polo": May 28, 2007
The Return of 'Jericho': May 28, 2007
War in the Movies: May 28, 2007
Ship of Fools--The Next Generation, Part Two: May 28, 2007
Ship of Fools--The Next Generation, Part One: May 21, 2007
"PANDEMIC": May 21, 2007
Ruth Rendell's 'The Water's Lovely': May 21, 2007
John Mortimer's 'Rumpole & the Reign of Terror': May 14, 2007
Val McDermid's 'The Grave Tattoo': May 14, 2007
Whatever Happened to 'Dark Corridors--The TV Show'?: April 23, 2007
The Great 'B' Western Quiz: April 23, 2007
Raised on 'B' Westerns: April 23, 2007
A Peek into the Future of Hercule Poirot: April 16, 2007
Arlo Polishes the Legacy: April 9, 2007
The Movies' New Dark Avenger: April 2, 2007
Hollywood's Mixed-Up Mysteries: March 26, 2007
With Heroes Like These, Who Needs Villains?: March 19, 2007
Ladies in Retirement: March 19, 2007
Hooray For Un-Buried Treasures: March 12, 2007
Robert B. Parker's "High Profile": March 6, 2007
The Oscars--What Went Down?: Feb. 26, 2007
Saluting Ian Richardson: Feb. 26, 2007
'Doc' Severinsen's Last Tour: Feb. 26, 2007
"Ghost Rider": Feb. 26, 2007
2007 Oscar Trivia Test: Feb. 19, 2007
Previewing the 2006 Oscars: Feb. 19, 2007
"The Departed": Feb. 19, 2007
Best 1940: Feb. 19, 2007
Best 27-28: Feb. 19, 2007
"Babel": Feb. 19, 2007
Farewell Frankie Laine: Feb. 19, 2007
Count Dracula Comes to...PBS?: Feb. 5, 2007
The Sally Lockhart Mysteries--The Ruby in the Smoke: Jan. 22, 2007
Joseph Wambaugh's 'Hollywood Station': Jan. 15, 2007
Robert B. Parker's "Hundred Dollar Baby": Jan. 8, 2007
Rocky Balboa--Anerican Movie Icon: Jan. 8, 2007
'Hannibal Rising': Jan. 8, 2007
They Left Us in 2006: Jan. 1, 2007
Mystery Highlights of 2006: Dec. 18, 2006
The Best TV Christmas Gifts They Don't Make: Dec. 18, 2006
Going On 8: Dec. 4, 2006
Poe and the Real Marie Roget: Dec. 4, 2006
Laurie R. King's 'The Art of Detection': Nov. 20, 2006
Salute To A Villain--Jack Palance: Nov. 13, 2006
Minette Walters' 'The Devil's Feather': Nov, 13, 2006
The Return of Dick Francis: Oct. 30, 2006
RandaRanda: Oct. 30, 2006
Five Frightful Females: Oct. 23, 2006
How Dark is the Future of Mystery?: Oct. 16, 2006
"Final Days of Planet Earth": Oct. 9, 2006
My Unsensational Debut As A Community Activist: Oct. 2, 2006
The Return of Two Noir Classics: Oct. 2, 2006
Here Comes 'The Killer' One More Time: Oct. 2, 2006
'The Black Dahlia': Sept. 25, 2006
Reunions R Us: Sept. 25, 2006
Glenn Ford--A Complex Man: Sept. 4, 2006
The Dark Masters of Dark Corridors: Sept. 4, 2006
Movies Like No Others: Sept. 4, 2006
The Legacy of Tod Slaughter: Aug. 28, 2006
The Mystery of Buddy: Aug. 21, 2006
Five Screen Heavies Who Lightened Up: Aug. 14, 2006
"The Night Listener": Aug. 7, 2006
It Was Easy!--The Legacy of Mickey Spillane: July 31, 2006
Can A Sidekick Be A Star?: July 3, 2006
The Movies' Very First Superman: July 3, 2006
Aaron Spelling's Biggest Hit Shows: June 26, 2006
Aaron Spelling--Smiling All the Way: June 26, 2006
Michael Collins' 'The Secret Life of E. Robert Pendleton': June 26, 2006
The Best TV Westerns On DVD: June 19, 2006
"Desolation Canyon": June 19, 2006
Women in the Saddle--The Best of the Best: June 19, 2006
Western Movies--A Golden Dozen: June 19, 2006
'The 4400'--My New Addiction: June 12, 2006
Laura Crum's 'Moonblind': June 5, 2006
My Summer on the Rock-O-Plane: June 5, 2006
The Things We Do This Summer: June 5, 2006
Where Do You Start With Noir?: May 29, 2006
Why I Didn't Serve My Country in the Military: May 29, 2006
Ron's Mystery News: May 22, 2006
'The Curse of King Tut's Tomb': May 22, 2006
'The Da Vinci Code'--The Movie: May 22, 2006
Why Do It Again?: May 10, 2006
The New Season of 'Mystery!': April 20, 2006
'In From the Night': April 20, 2006
"My Family and Other Animals": April 3, 2006
"Basic Instinct 2": April 3, 2006
Rita Mae Brown's 'Sourpuss': March 27, 2006
We're Losing Our Oscar Icons: March 20, 2006
Your 2006 Mystery Test: March 13, 2006
The 2006 Oscar Telecast: March 6, 2006
If A Superhero Marries...:March 6, 2006
My All-New Family of Superheroes: March 6, 2006
The Superheroes You're Glad You're Not: March 6, 2006
Our Favorite Comic Book Heroes: March 6, 2006
The Year Oscar Ignored Hollywood: Feb. 27, 2006
"Munich": Feb. 27, 2006
"Brokeback Mountain": Feb. 27, 2006
How Oscar Got So Light On His Feet: Feb. 27, 2006
How TV Botched Two Classic Mysteries: Feb. 27, 2006
Clyde W. Ford's 'Precious Cargo': Feb. 20, 2006
"Capote": Feb. 20, 2006
"American Gothic" DVD SET: Feb. 13, 2006
"CRASH": Feb. 13, 2006
Ruth Rendell's '13 Steps Down': Feb. 6, 2006
King of the Cop Shows: Jan. 30, 2006
'Falling in Love with the Girl Next Door': Jan. 30, 2006
PBS' 'Bleak House': Jan. 23, 2006
'The Water is Wide': Jan. 23, 2006
'Hidden Places': Jan. 23, 2006
Whatever Happened To...Instrumental Pop Music Stars?: Jan. 16, 2006
TV's All-Time Best Thriller--"24": Jan. 9, 2006
"School Days": Jan. 9, 2006
"The Ice Harvest": Jan. 2, 2006
The Passing Parade--2005: Jan. 2, 2006
My House on the Green: Jan. 2, 2006
The Old and New 'King Kong': Dec. 19, 2005
Let's Update Our Christmas Carols: Dec. 19, 2005

Six Years in Our Online 'Retirement Home': Dec. 5, 2005
P.D. James' 'The Lighthouse': Dec. 5, 2005
"I Love A Mystery": Nov.14, 2005
"The Reading Room": Nov. 14, 2005
Why Halloween Is My Night: Oct. 31, 2005
TV's All-Time Best Saturday Night: Oct. 31, 2005

Trick or Treat Horror Movie Test: Oct. 31, 2005
Ron's Very Dark Xmas List: Oct. 24, 2005
Sherlock Holmes & The Case of the Silk Stocking: Oct. 10, 2005
P.D. James' 'The Murder Room': Oct. 6, 2005
David Morrell, Master of the Thriller: Sept. 30, 2005
David Morrell on Rambo: Sept. 30, 2005
"Creepers": Sept. 30, 2005

Remembering Robert Wise: Sept. 28, 2005
"Murders in the Rue Morgue": Sept. 19, 2005
The Rising Tide of Anger: Sept. 5, 2005
'SUPERNOVA': Aug. 29. 2005
The Return of 'Foyle's War': Aug. 29, 2005
Sara Paretsky's 'Fire Sale': Aug. 22, 2005
"McBride" for the Defense: Aug. 8, 2005
Close-up: Steve Martini: Aug. 1, 2005
Here Comes SPENSER: July 25, 2005
The Brief Magic of 'Moonlighting': July 18, 2005
Heavyweight Champs As Movies?: July 4, 2005
Laurie R. King Speaks Out: July 4, 2005
The Val Lewton Collection--At Long Last!: June 27, 2005
"In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner": June 20, 2005
James M. Cain's 'Mildred Pierce': May 30, 2005
A Video Treasure Chest Finally Opens: May 30, 2005
Frederick Forsyth's 'ICON': May 23, 2005
4.50 From Paddington--Three Versions with Three Marples: May 16, 2005
Stuart McLean--King of Canadian Radio: May 16, 2005
Mystery Writers with Aliases: May 5, 2005
The First 'Elvis' Movie: May 2, 2005
The 10 Mystery Movies I'd Most Like To See: April 25, 2005
Ridley Pearson's 'Cut and Run': April 18, 2005
The New Miss Marple: April 11, 2005
'Blind Justice' and the Blind Detective Genre: April 4, 2005
The One and Only Clyde Beatty: March 28, 2005
PBS' 'Malice Aforethought': March 28, 2005
'The Sapphire Sea': March 28, 2005
Steven Bochco's 'Murder One' on DVD: March 21, 2005
The Triumphant Comeback of PBS' 'Mystery!': March 14, 2005
The Bizarre Legacy of Andy Sipowicz: March 7, 2005
The 2005 Oscar Telecast: Feb. 28, 2005
'The Kennel Murder Case': Feb. 28, 2005
'Home Sweet Homicide'-The Book & the Movie: Feb. 21, 2005
'Without Apology': Feb. 21, 2005
Picking the 2004 Oscar Winners: Feb. 21, 2005
Sports and the Oscars: Feb. 21, 2005
John D. MacDonald's 'The Executioners' and the Two 'Cape Fears'
My Secret Valentine Girl: Feb. 14, 2005
'The Maltese Falcon'--75 Years Later: Feb 7, 2005
My Happy Days with 'Happy Days': Jan. 31, 2005
CBS' 'The Magic of Ordinary Days': Jan. 24, 2005
The Late, Great Mr. Carson: Jan. 24, 2005
Ruth Rendell's 'The Rottweiler': Jan. 24, 2005
PBS' 'Island at War': Jan. 24, 2005
Jane Doe--Vanishing Act: Jan. 17, 2005
The DaVinci Code Special Illustrated Edition: Jan. 17, 2005
Hallmark's'Hall of Mystery': Jan. 10, 2005
Andrew Lloyd Webber's 'Phantom of the Opera'--The Movie: Jan. 10, 2005
The People We Most Want To See Less of in 2005 (with staff): Jan. 10, 2005

Ed McBain's 'HARK!': Jan. 3, 2005
The Passing Parade--2004: Dec. 20, 2004
David Suzuki, Superstar: Dec. 13, 2004
'Penguin Pool Murder': Dec. 13, 2004
Five Years Forward: Dec. 6, 2004
Living Without Dan Rather: Nov. 29, 2004
Those Unforgettable Mexican Warriors: Nov. 29, 2004
'The Case of the Weird Sisters' vs. 'The Three Weird Sisters': Nov. 29, 2004
'Love's Lovely Counterfeit' vs. 'Slightly Scarlet': Nov. 22, 2004
Beware Men Who Cook Thanksgiving Dinner: Nov. 22, 2004
PBS' 'Pollyanna': Nov. 22, 2004
'Back When We Were Grownups': Nov. 15, 2004
Know Your TV Detectives: Nov. 15, 2004
Now Comes the Darkness: Nov. 8, 2004
Faye and Jonathan Kellerman's 'Double Homicide': Nov. 8, 2004
PBS' 'Henry VIII': Nov. 8, 2004
'Mischief' vs. 'Don't Bother to Knock': Oct. 27, 2004
'Frankenstein'--The Monster That Just Won't Go Away: Oct. 19, 2004
"The Lost Prince": Oct. 11, 2004
"I Married A Dead Man": Oct. 11, 2004
My New Rules For Films Noir: Oct. 4, 2004
The Man From Greenpeace: Oct. 4, 2004
Will America Buy the New Dalgliesh?: Sept. 27, 2004
"Poe & Fanny": Sept. 20, 2004
Alien vs. Predator: Sept. 13, 2004

Frankenstein vs. The Mummy: Sept. 13, 2004
Look Who's Coming Back!: Sept. 13, 2004 (with Donna J. Plesh)
The Versatile Elmer Bernstein: Sept. 6, 2004
"After Dark, My Sweet": Sept. 6, 2004
Playing For the Ashes: Aug. 30, 2004
Sheriff David Reichert: Aug. 30, 2004
Michael Collins: Aug. 23, 2004
Jeffery Deaver: Aug. 16, 2004
Laura Crum's 'Forged': Aug. 9, 2004
How TV News Let Us Down: Aug. 2, 2004
The G-String Murders/Lady of Burlesque: Aug. 2, 2004
The Black Camel: July 26, 2004
Tami Hoag (2004): July 26, 2004
'Crossing the Meadow': July 5, 2004
The Squandered Legacy of Marlon Brando: July 5, 2004
The Amazing 'Fahrenheit 9/11': July 5, 2004
Foyle's War, Season Two: July 5, 2004
A Thief of Time: July 5, 2004
The Franchise Affair: July 5, 2004
A Shilling for Candles vs. Young & Innocent: June 28, 2004
Aubrey--Ex-Cheerleader, Part 5: June 28, 2004
Mystery! Newsbreak: June 14, 2004
Aubrey--Ex-Cheerleader, Part 4: June 14, 2004
The Late Irene Manning: June 7, 2004
Reagan's Great Screen Performances: June 7, 2004
Susan McBride's 'Blue Blood': June 7, 2004
'In A Lonely Place': June 7, 2004
Aubrey--Ex-Cheerleader, Part 3: June 7, 2004
The Passing of A Great Lady--Anna Lee: May 31, 2004
The Man Who Watched the Legends Die: May 31, 2004
'The Unsuspected': May 31, 2004
Aubrey--Ex-Cheerleader, Part 2: May 31, 2004
Meet Jack Frost: May 24, 2004
Death Penalty Offenses!: May 24, 2004
Aubrey--Ex-Cheerleader, Part 1: May 24, 2004
Roy Jones, Jr.--Kayoed!: May 17, 2004
Sherlock's Greatest Mysteries: May 10, 2004
My Mother's Eyes: May 3, 2004
Vitali Rules...Maybe!: May 3, 2004
Wimsey on the Screen: May 3, 2004
"Dardevil Dan & Molly Rainbow": April 26, 2004
"Plainsong": April 19, 2004
Facing the Chasm: April 19, 2004
A Century of Great Sci-Fi Films, Part Two: April 19, 2004
A Century of Great Sci-Fi Films, Part One: April 12, 2004
Vengeance of the Exposed Columnists: April 5, 2004
John Stanley's 'Nightmare in Blood'--The DVD: April 5, 2004
Robert B. Parker's "Bad Business": March 29, 2004
Secret Desires of the Columnists: March 29, 2004
V.I. Warshawski On Film: March 15, 2004
Resurrecting Rumpole: March 8, 2004
The Hatchet Man: March 8, 2004
Reviewing the Oscar Show--2004: March 1, 2004
"Blacklist": March 1, 2004
Black Images On A White Screen: March 1, 2004
Oscar's Favorite Mysteries: Feb. 16, 2004
Previewing the 2003 Oscars: Feb. 16, 2004
Going to Extremes!: Feb. 16, 2004
Oscar's 10 Most Underrated Winners: Feb. 16, 2004
A Mr. Moto Treasure Chest: Feb. 2, 2004
'Crazylegs'--Movie Star: Feb. 2, 2004
Television's Shameless Election Coverage: Feb. 2, 2004
"The Blackwater Lightship": Feb. 2, 2004
Pop Stars and the Movies: Jan. 19, 2004
Prime Suspect 6: The Last Witness: Jan. 19, 2004
One Last Salute: Jan. 5, 2004
The Coming of Snow...and the Relatives: Jan. 5, 2004
Year 5, Here We Come!: Dec. 8, 2003
P.D. James' 'The Murder Room': Dec. 8, 2003
'Timeline'--The Movie: Dec. 8, 2003
Penny Singleton--'Blondie' Forever: Nov. 17, 2003
'Dr. Renault's Secret': Nov. 17, 2003
PBS' 'Coyote Waits': Nov. 10, 2003
'Black Dahlia Avenger': Nov. 10, 2003
Jack Elam: Death of A Classic 'Bad Guy': Oct. 26, 2003
Memories of Frankenstein: Oct. 26, 2003
Clint Eastwood's 'Mystic River': Oct. 20, 2003
Steven Bochco's 'Death By Hollywood': Oct. 20, 2003
Who Are These Hollywood People Anyway?: Oct. 20, 2003
'Goodbye, Mr.Chips': Oct. 13, 2003
The Man Who Laughs: Oct. 6, 2003
Legendary Elia Kazan: Oct. 6, 2003
'Warrior Queen': Oct. 6, 2003
Paul Newman in 'Our Town': Sept. 29, 2003
Men in Jeopardy?: Sept. 29, 2003
The 55th Annual Emmy Awards: Sept. 22, 2003
Minette Walters' 'Fox Evil': Sept. 22, 2003
The Mystery of Johnny Cash: Sept. 15, 2003
The Surprising Career of John Ritter: Sept. 15, 2003
The Dark Legacy of Charles Bronson: Sept. 15, 2003
Curse of The Shadow: Sept. 8, 2003
'Swimming Pool': Sept. 1, 2003
The Joys & Pain of 'R.J. Syndrome' (with Patricia J. Geister): Sept. 1, 2003
'Freddy vs. Jason': Aug. 25, 2003
Kevin Costner's 'Open Range': Aug. 25, 2003
Elizabeth George On Television: Aug. 25, 2003
All Hail Queen Elizabeth: Aug. 18, 2003
Talking Mit Der Terminator: Aug. 18, 2003
Hard Luck for Mystery Writers: Aug. 11, 2003
'Seabiscuit'--Another View: Aug. 4, 2003
The Return of Hetty Wainthropp: Aug. 4, 2003
Dennis Lehane's 'Shutter Island': July 28, 2003
Radio Mystery Movies: July 21, 2003
The Many Lives of Buddy Ebsen: July 14, 2003
My Guilty Pleasure is--Charlie Chan: July 14, 2003
The Original Thrill of CinemaScope: July 7, 2003
Katharine Hepburn--Queen of the Silver Screen: June 30, 2003
The Way It's Supposed To Be: June 30, 2003
Gregory Peck: June 23, 2003
Inside The House of Seven Gables: June 23, 2003
Happy Father's Day, Pop!: June 9, 2003

The Blood 'n Guts Championship of the World: June 9, 2003
The Comic Legacy of Bob Hope: May 19, 2003
Robert Stack: May 19, 2003
The Coming Mystery! Summer: May 19, 2003
Laura Crum's 'Hayburner': May 12, 2003
Karen Morley and the Hollywood Blacklist: May 5, 2003
The Dark Flood to Video: May 5, 2003
An Evening with Marvin Hamlisch: May 5, 2003
Tamara's Wedding: April 21, 2003
My Secret Craving For Olivia: April 14, 2003
Ten Classic Silent Movie Horrors: April 14, 2003
The Jury: April 7, 2003
Laurie King's Next Step: April 7, 2003
Reviewing the Oscar Show: March 24, 2003
War Isn't 'Neat' Anymore: March 24, 2003
2003 Oscar Preview: March 17, 2003
Chicago vs. Oscar's Past Musical Winners: March 17, 2003
The Roads Not Taken: March 17, 2003
Oscar's Darkest Corridors: March 17, 2003
Best Picture Trivia Test: March 17, 2003
The Ring: March 10, 2003
Why Not Try A Mystery Convention?: March 3, 2003
My Top 10 Reasons to Keep Loving France: Feb. 24, 2003
One Hour Photo: Feb. 24, 2003
On Writing: I Write, Therefore I Am: Feb. 17, 2003

Thomas Perry's Dead Aim: Feb. 17, 2003
Linda Fairstein: Feb. 10, 2003
The TV Romances I'd Most Like To See: Feb. 10, 2003
Columbo Makes TV History: Feb. 3, 2003
How To Be A TV Series Collector: Feb. 3, 2003
In Memory of...Richard Crenna: Jan. 27, 2003
Brush with Fate: Jan. 27, 2003
Foyle's War: Jan. 27, 2003
Meet the New Sherlock Holmes: Jan. 13, 2003
Fond Farewells: 2002: Jan. 6, 2003
Will the Real Charlie Chan Please Stand Up?: Jan. 6, 2003
A Man's Best Friend: Dec. 30, 2002
My Dark Christmas Gift List: Dec. 16, 2002
A Gangster Cap for Clifford: Dec. 16, 2002
Roone Arledge: Force of Nature: Dec. 6, 2002
Where Do We Go From Here?: Dec. 2, 2002
The Resurrectionists: Dec. 2, 2002
The Locket: Dec. 2, 2002
The Decline and Fall of Our Thanksgiving Dinners: Nov. 25, 2002
Skinwalkers: Nov. 18, 2002
Horror Writers and the Movies: Nov. 11, 2002
Remaking Hitchcock: Nov. 4, 2002
The Most-Feared Trick-or-Treater in Halloween History: Oct. 28, 2002
JASON X: Oct. 21, 2002
Overdue for Recognition: Oct. 14, 2002
Famous Monsters I've Known: Oct. 7, 2002
J.A. Jance: Sept. 30, 2002
Ruth Rendell's 'Simisola': Sept. 23, 2002
Blood Work: Sept. 16, 2002
Leading Us Straight to Hell?: Sept. 9, 2002
Jolson Sings...Again?: Sept. 2, 2002
My Secret Life As A Bareback Rider: Aug. 26, 2002
The Survivors Club: Aug. 26, 2002
A Great Deliverance: Aug. 19, 2002
Joyous Joan Baez: Aug. 19, 2002
Bourne Again!: Nov. 12, 2002
Is the 'Slasher' Era Finally Over?: Aug. 5, 2002
Farewell Horace Rumpole: July 28, 2002
Dying For A Change: July 28, 2002

Remarkable Rosemary Clooney: July 23, 2002
Remembering Rod Steiger: July 21, 2002
John Frankenheimer: July 14, 2002
Murder Rooms: July 14, 2002
Just For Laughs: July 7, 2002
Into Each Life Some Hair Must Fall: July 7, 2002
Mystery of the Missing Videos: June 30, 2002
Gone For Good: June 23, 2002
The Two Mr. Ripleys: June 16, 2002
Tyson's Final Bow?: June 9, 2002
The Curve of the World: June 9, 2002
The Summer of Mystery!: June 9, 2002
Tain't Funny, McGee!: June 2, 2002
Earl Emerson Heats Up: June 2, 2002
Widow's Walk: May 26, 2002
Exit Lew Archer; Enter Lew Harper?: May 19, 2002

Mothers: May 12, 2002
Too Dead To Swing: May 12, 2002
PBS' The Road From Coorain: May 12, 2002
CBS' 'Little John': May 5, 2002
Nevada Barr's 'Hunting Season': May 5, 2002
My Own Loaner Kid: April 28, 2002
Robert Urich: April 21, 2002
Adam and Eve and Pinch Me: April 21, 2002
Effie vs. The Maniac: April 14, 2002
The Late, Great Billy Wilder: March 31, 2002
Murder of A Sleeping Beauty: March 31, 2002
The Way We Live Now: March 31, 2002
Uncle Miltie Plays Heaven: March 31, 2002
The Oscar Show 2002: March 25, 2002
Anne Perry: March 24, 2002
Et tu, Oscar?: March 17, 2002
"A Beautiful Mind": March 17, 2002
"Moulin Rouge": March 17, 2002
The 2002 Oscar Trivia Exam: March 17, 2002
"In the Bedroom": March 17, 2002
"Unforgiven": March 17, 2002
Oscars for Westerns?: March 17, 2002
The Return of Jane Tennison: March 10, 2002
Dashiell Hammett & The Three Falcons: March 3, 2002
In Memory of John Thaw: Feb. 24, 2002
Look Who's Coming to 'Mystery!': Feb. 24, 2002
Thompson Meets Tavernier: Feb. 17, 2002
Death of An Outlaw: Feb. 17, 2002
Broads in Boxing: Feb. 17, 2002
Addicted to the Manly Art of Self-Defense: Feb. 17, 2002

TV & Mystery Writers: A Love-Hate Relationship: Feb. 10, 2002
Say Goodnight, Mr. King: Feb. 3, 2002
"Bertie & Elizabeth": Feb. 3, 2002
Element of Surprise: Jan. 27, 2002
My Sister's Keeper: Jan. 20, 2002
Justice is My Destiny: Jan. 13, 2002
The Murder of Stephen Lawrence: Jan. 13, 2002
Mystery News: January, 2002: Jan. 6, 2002
The Best Columns of Year Two: Dec. 30, 2001
The Big Sleep: Dec. 30, 2001
Effie and the Christmas Indian: Dec. 23, 2001
Meet Lieutenant Hilderbrand: Dec. 23, 2001
The 39 Steps: Dec. 16, 2001
Strangers On A Train: Dec. 9, 2001
The Ten Best TV Shows of 2011: Dec. 2, 2001
Killing the Shadows: Nov. 22, 2001
Goodbye Dear Scotty: Nov. 22, 2001
My Uncle Silas: Nov. 18, 2001
The Thin Man: Nov. 18, 2001
In Love & War: Nov. 11, 2001
Today the Turtles, Tomorrow the World?: Nov. 11, 2001
Braggarts Get Stomped!: Nov. 11, 2001
The Surgeon: Nov. 11, 2001
I Was A Teenage Caveman!: Nov. 4, 2001
Black Delta Night: Oct. 28, 2001
Minette Walters: Oct. 21, 2001
Dear Ray, We'll Never Forget You: Oct. 21, 2001
Survive This, You Suckers!: Oct. 14, 2001
The Ponder Heart: Oct. 14, 2001
Breakaway: Oct. 14, 2001
Dorothy McGuire: Oct. 7, 2001
P.D. James: A Celebration: Oct. 7, 2001
Reflecting on Terror: Sept. 30, 2001
Overkill: Sept. 2, 2001
More Dinosaurs and Talking Apes?: Aug. 19, 2001
PBS' 'Mystery!': The Season of Darkness: Aug. 12, 2001

It's Time For Detective Dream Teams: Aug. 5, 2001
Where the Deer & the Jack Rabbits Roam: July 29, 2001
What's So Funny About Horror?: July 8, 2001
The House We Lived In: July 8, 2001
Salute to Jack Lemmon: July 1, 2001
I Was A Monster Boy: June 24, 2001
Talking Heads 2: Miss Fozzard Finds Her Feet: June 24, 2001
Potshot: June 17, 2001
Encore: The Tough Guy I'll Never Forget: June 17, 2001
1st To Die: June 10, 2001
Anthony Quinn: June 10, 2001
The Thrilla in Vanilla: June 3, 2001
The Dark Legacy of Robert Blake: May 27, 2001
The Festering Future of Network Television: May 27, 2001
Mothers from Hell!: May 13, 2001
Folly: May 6, 2001
Laura: How the Famous Film Obscures the Classic Novel: April 27, 2001
Michael Ritchie: April 22, 2001
The Man Who is Nero Wolfe: April 22, 2001
The Old Settler: April 22, 2001
Ten Favorite Mystery Movies You Probably Never Saw: April 15, 2001
Confessions of A Matinee Idler: April 15, 2001
Anthony Dexter: April 8, 2001
"When Billie Beat Bobby": April 8, 2001
My Days at Monkey Ward: April 1, 2001
What If Dick Francis Really Means It This Time?: March 25, 2001
South Pacific: March 25, 2001
Kathie Lee--Diva of Drama: March 11, 2001
Armed & Dangerous: March 4, 2001
Amy and Isabelle: Feb. 25, 2001
Charles Trenet: Feb. 25, 2001
The Long, Long Reign of Columbo: Feb. 25, 2001
My Dinner with Hannibal: Feb. 18, 2001 
Episode Three: Monster Vs. Monster: Feb. 18, 2001
Episode Two: Programmed To Kill!: Feb. 11, 2001
Episode One: Distress Call From the Far Frontier: Feb. 4, 2001
Kate Flora: Feb. 11, 2001
Hooked in the Dawn of the Sci-Fi Age: Feb. 4, 2001
Alternate Worlds: Feb. 4, 2001
The Uncertain Future of PBS' 'Mystery': Jan. 28, 2001
"The Flamingo Rising": Jan. 28, 2001
If Dorothy L. Sayers Came Again...: Jan. 21, 2001 
Jackie Chan,Cartoon Hero?: Jan. 14, 2001
Pop Stars: Jan. 7, 2001
The Pest Control Man's Vacation: Dec. 31, 2000
Farewell, Dr. Bramwell!: Dec. 31, 2000
My Favorite Christmas Cards: Dec. 24, 2000
'The American': Dec. 24, 2000
Marie Windsor: Dec. 17, 2000
Black Christmas: Dec. 17, 2000
SHOU: Dec. 10, 2000
Jane Goes To the Movies: Dec. 3, 2000
The Runaway: Dec. 3, 2000
 
Be Glad You're Not A Doctor on ER!: Dec. 1, 2000

Curt Siodmak Is Immortal!: Nov. 22, 2000
'Red Planet': Nov. 16, 2000
The Val Lewton Legacy: Nov. 9, 2000
Steve Allen: Nov. 7, 2000
What's A Nice Girl Like You...Big Hairy Paw Like That?: Oct.31, 2000
My Five Favorite TV Horrors: Oct. 31, 2000
 The Five Worst TV Horrors: Oct. 31, 2000
Lorie Ham: Oct. 26, 2000
Cora Unashamed: Oct. 24, 2000
Sheen vs. Locklear: Oct. 17, 2000
When Our Heroes Go Bad!: Oct. 12, 2000
Eastwood...without A Net: Oct.10, 2000
Richard Farnsworth: Oct. 9, 2000
Cuco Sanchez: Oct. 9, 2000
Tami Hoag: Oct. 5, 2000
Debate No. 1: Oct. 4, 2000
Gilmore Girls: Oct. 3, 2000
Felicity Hairdo Report: Sept. 30, 2000
Val McDermid: Sept. 28, 2000
Andromeda: Sept. 26, 2000
Dale Furutani: Sept. 21, 2000
James Schmerer: Sept. 14, 2000
Robert B. Parker: Sept. 7, 2000
Why TV Cheats Mystery Fans: Aug. 31, 2000
Hollow Man: Aug. 17, 2000
Jessica Speart: Aug. 17, 2000
Laura Crum: Aug. 10, 2000
Nancy Davis, Movie Star: July 27, 2000
Here Today,Where Tomorrow?: July 18, 2000
Guilty Pleasures: July 10, 2000
When TV Moppets Grow Up: June 27, 2000
Susan McBride: June 22, 2000
Marilyn Wooley: June 15, 2000
Exiles on Main Street: June 8, 2000
They're doing the TV show all wrong!: June 6, 2000
My Times With BOB HOPE: May 25, 2000
The Dark Origins of Sherlock Holmes: May 16, 2000
This Can Happen To You, Too…if You Watch TV Too Long!: May 9, 2000
Was "Dial M for Murder" the Best 3-D Film?: April 27, 2000
If I Ran Hollywood: April 18, 2000
Bomba of Hollywood: March 29, 2000
Welcome to My "Antique Road Show": March 14, 2000
HITCHCOCK: Did He Really Treat Actors Like Cattle?: March 9, 2000
They're Not Playing Our Songs And Now We Know Why: Feb. 23, 2000
Trial By Fire: Feb. 17, 2000
The Horror Movie Market Crash of 1946: Feb. 9-10, 2000
Whatever Happened to "Make Out" Music?": Dec. 6, 1999

 ANDY MURCIA

 

I Was A Hotel Dick, Pt. 6: June 1, 2009
Some TV Ads I'd Like To Nuke Into Oblivion: May 18, 2009
Justice Finally Calls For Phil Spector: April 20, 2009
The Anti-Diet Book Diet: April 13, 2009
Senseless Slaughter: March 23, 2009
"Cash Only?": March 23, 2009
Good Day, Mr. Harvey: March 9, 2009
I Was A Hotel Dick, Pt. 5: Feb. 23, 2009
Memories of A Champ--Jose Torres: Feb. 2, 2009
I Was A Hotel Dick, Pt. 4: Feb. 2, 2009
I Was A Hotel Dick, Pt. 3: Jan. 26, 2009
I Was A Hotel Dick, Pt. 2: Jan. 12, 2009
I Was A Hotel Dick: Dec. 22, 2008
An Ex-Cop's Warning To All 'Cycle Sissies': Dec. 1, 2008
The Bum Rap: Oct. 27, 2008
Breast Cancer Memories: Oct. 13, 2008
Beware the 'Big Wink' at Election Time: Oct. 13, 2008
Death of A Cop: Sept. 1, 2008
My Best Buddy: May 12, 2008
Trouble (D) Man: April 7, 2008
Prostitution 101: March 24, 2008
The Depressing Shame of Eliot Spitzer: March 17, 2008
Chicago Style Steppin': Dec. 17, 2007
Gangster College #9: Frank Lucas: Dec. 3, 2007
Farewell to Robert Goulet (with Ann Jillian): Nov. 19, 2007
Latimore is Back Atcha: Nov. 19, 2007
Be Careful in Public Toilets: Oct. 4, 2007
John Davidson, Star-Maker?: Sept. 17, 2007
Gangster College #8--"Lucky" Luciano: Sept. 3, 2007
Memories of Merv (with Ann Jillian): Aug. 20, 2007
This Old Body!: July 30, 2007
Papa's Weapons of Mass Destruction: June 11, 2007
The New Face of 'Cool'?: May 21, 2007
Warming Up A Cold Case: Feb. 26, 2007
Remembering Barbara McNair (with Ann Jillian): Feb. 19, 2007
Our Special Night at the Golden Globes: Jan. 22, 2007
The He-She Syndrome: Jan. 1, 2007
My Nasty E-Mail Adventure with Capt.Cucumber: Dec 18, 2006
Krazy Kramer: Dec. 3, 2006
They Call These Slobs Heavyweight Contenders?: Sept. 4, 2006
It's A New Day in Hollywood: July 3, 2006
Remembering Aaron Spelling (with Ann Jillian): July 3, 2006
"Raging Bull": April 3, 2006
Luther Vandross--The Melody Lingers On: March 13, 2006
Remembering 'Baby' Jessica (with Ann Jillian): Feb. 6, 2006
Chicago Crime--Unvarnished Truth: Jan. 9, 2006
How My Dad Put A Cork in Madam Sherry: Dec. 5, 2005
Andy's New Weapons of Mass Destruction: Nov. 14, 2005
Why I Dislike Halloween: Oct. 31, 2005
Memories of Tammi: Oct. 24, 2005
The Spittin' Image of Baseball: Sept. 19, 2005
BIG RED: Aug. 29, 2005
Andy's Armed Robbery Institute for Dopey Bastards: Aug. 22, 2005
Inspired By Lance: Aug. 1, 2005
The Big Chest Caper: July 15, 2005
Be Careful How You Answer the Phone!: July 4, 2005
Keeping Ann's Name Off the Streets: June 20, 2005
Gangster College No. 7: May 6, 2005
Andy's Bruschetta: April 4, 2005
Hey There, Sammy!: March 28, 2005
Rape and Money: March 7, 2005
Las Vegas? Don't Go There!: Feb. 14, 2005
Johnny Carson & Me (with Ann Jillian): Jan. 24, 2005
The Summer of Martin Luther King: Jan. 17, 2005
The People We Most Want To See Less of in 2005 (with staff): Jan. 10, 2005
Santa Is A Crook!:Dec. 20, 2004
'Homicide: On View': Dec. 6, 2004

The Last Straw For Reality TV?: Nov. 29, 2004
A Boy and His Turkey Dinner: Nov. 22, 2004
My Son, the Lawyer: Nov. 8, 2004
The Cops, The Midget and Malodorous Mona: Oct. 19, 2004
SOULYWOOD: Oct. 4, 2004
Beware of Park Creeps!: Sept. 20, 2004
Pier People: May 17, 2004
A Little Barber Shop Nap: March 1, 2004
'The French Connection': Feb. 16, 2004
Ann Miller Was Funny!: Feb. 2, 2004 (with Ann Jillian)
Our Party's Thoughtful Predictions: Jan. 5, 2004
"Have A Heart Attack? No, Thanks, Just Had One!": Dec. 8, 2003
Character Really Does Count: Dec. 8, 2003
The End of the Affair: Oct. 26, 2003
My Pal, The Coffee Queen: Oct. 13, 2003
Bless You, Donald O'Connor (with Ann Jillian): Oct. 6, 2003
The Real 'Exit Wounds': Sept. 8, 2003
'S.W.A.T.': Aug. 25, 2003
Good Night, Mr. Hines: Aug. 18, 2003
The Book Tour From Hell: July 21, 2003
Barry White--Let the Music Play: July 7, 2003
Where Did Loyalty Go?: June 30, 2003
Gangster 'College'--Part 5: June 9, 2003
Gangster 'College'--Part 4: May 19, 2003
Gangster 'College'--Part 3: May 12, 2003
Twelfth of Never: Mom's Day for Ann: May 5, 2003
Gangster 'College'--Part 2: April 21, 2003
Gangster 'College,' Part 1: April 14, 2003
My Four Big Sisters: March 31, 2003
60 Minutes of Fun!: March 31, 2003
The FIRST Picture Show: March 17, 2003
They Call Me MISTER Bagel Maven: March 10, 2003
Stop the Suicide!: March 3, 2003
'Killer' Eateries: Feb. 24, 2003
The Canary Who Couldn't Fly: Feb. 17, 2003
The Lana Clarkson Murder: Feb. 10, 2003

The Bookie Raid: Feb. 3, 2003
In Memory of...Nell Carter: Jan. 27, 2003
Yes, I'm Addicted to Food: Jan. 13, 2003
A Missing Christmas Bell: Dec. 16, 2002
Stroll with Me Down Storefront Row: Dec. 2, 2002
A Citizen Like You Caught the Murderers: Oct. 28, 2002
The Lady in Red: Oct. 21, 2002
Dream House!: Sept. 16, 2002
You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling?: Sept. 9, 2002
The Dead Don't Dance: Sept. 2, 2002
Some Thoughts About An FBI 'Whistle-blower': Aug. 5, 2002
Police Brutality?: July 21, 2002

Sitamore & Rinehart: July 14. 2002
A Good Man: June 23, 2002
Andy's Road Rage Remedies: June 16, 2002
I'm Proud of My Catholic Church: May 19, 2002
The Pimping Field: April 28, 2002
Blake's No Flake: April 21, 2002
Guilt by Association: April 14, 2002
The Girl From 'On the Waterfront': March 17, 2002
Staying Alive with 'Killer': March 10, 2002
Bright Lights, Big City (with Gina Gallo): March 3, 2002
My Secret Love: Feb. 24, 2002
Broads in Boxing: Feb. 17, 2002
Murcia's Law: Boxing's in My Blood: Feb. 17, 2002
Murcia's Law: Our Tragic Valentine: Feb. 10, 2002
Murcia's Law: Anatomy of A Shooting: Feb. 3, 2002
Murcia's Law: Puccini & Me: Jan. 20, 2002
Murcia's Law: Imperfect Samaritan: Jan. 6, 2002
Spaghetti for Santa: Dec. 23, 2001

 GERALD NACHMAN

 

Pop Star Dies! Media Flips!: June 29, 2009
The DayAfter 'Tomorrow'--Part Three: June 29, 2009
The Day After 'Tomorrow'--Part Two: June 15, 2009
The Day After 'Tomorrow'--Part One: June 8, 2009

Rabbit At Rest: Feb. 3, 2009
Yes, He Can, But Can I?: Feb. 2, 2009
Good Shoemanship: Dec. 22, 2008
Cliches in Action: Dec. 15, 2008
The Fascination Sweepstakes of 2008--A Critical Study: Dec. 8, 2008
Waiting For Obama: Dec. 8, 2008
Words For the Unwise: Dec. 1, 2008
The Bridge To Anywhere: Oct. 28, 2008
Welcome To Palin County: Oct. 27, 2008
Depressed? Who, Me?: Oct. 27, 2008
A Day at the Sarah Palin Rumor Mill: Sept. 22, 2008
Sarah, We Hardly Know Ye...But What the Heck!: Sept. 8, 2008
Lincoln at Gettysburg: Sept. 1, 2008
Convention-al Wisdom: Sept. 1, 2008
All the News Fit To Skimp: Aug. 4, 2008
American Satire's Last Gasp: July 21, 2008
Not Been There, Done Nothing; July 14, 2008
Death Of A Newsman: June 23, 2008
Beige Like Me: June 16, 2008
The Rascally Columnists of San Francisco: June 16, 2008
Enter and Sign In, Please!: April 7, 2008
A Belated Auld Lang Syne: Jan. 21, 2008
Life Is A Cabaret, But It's Closing Time (afterword): Nov. 26, 2007
Autumn in New York: Nov. 26, 2007
Limbo Revisited (Part 34): Nov. 19, 2007
Seriously Writing (Part 33): Nov. 12, 2007
Behind the Cover (Part 32): Oct. 29, 2007
One Knight in Shining Armor at My Service (Part 31): Oct. 22, 2007
That Old Gang O' Mine (Part 30): Oct. 15, 2007
End of the Trail (Part 29): Oct. 3, 2007
Remembrances of Flings Past (Part 28): Oct. 1, 2007
How Long Has This Been Going On? (Not Very): Sept. 17, 2007
Bravos and Boos For Mr. ShowBiz (Part 27): Sept. 17, 2007
Single...with No Children (Part 26): Sept. 3, 2007
All the President's Mutts: Sept. 3, 2007
Almost A Broadway Baby (Part 25): Aug. 20, 2007
Nachman Finally Goes Hollywood (Part 24): Aug. 6, 2007
"Quirks" (Part 23): July 30, 2007
Little Man About Town (Part 22): July 16, 2007
You Can Go Home Again--and Again and Again (Part 21): July 16, 2007
From Pigs to Blogs (Part 20): July 9, 2007
On the Road Again (Part 19): July 2, 2007
A Few Forgotten American Idols: July 2, 2007
A Negative Force in Fashion?: June 25, 2007
With Sadie At Sardi's (Part 18): June 25, 2007
Discovering America (Part 17): June 18, 2007
The Sopranos--The Movie: June 18, 2007
Father's Day 1953 (Part 16): June 11, 2007
Media Ring Around the Rosie: June 11, 2007
Book Marks (Part 15): June 4, 2007
Agents of Doom (Part 14): May 28, 2007
Down the Syndicate Drain (Part 13): May 21, 2007
Sowing My Wild Cheerios (Part 12): May 14, 2007
A Columnist Conspiracy (Part 11): Oct. 23, 2007
Small Frog in A Big Pond (Part 10): Oct. 23, 2007
Take Me Back to Manhattan (Part 9): Oct. 23, 2007
Who Was That Ho I Saw You With?: April 16, 2007
A-Junketing We Will Go! (Part 8): April 16, 2007
My Years As A Journalistic Starlet in Oakland (Part 7): April 9, 2007
Portrait of the Journalist As A Young Rube--Part 6: April 2, 2007
Portrait of the Journalist As A Young Rube--Part 5: March 26, 2007
Portrait of the Journalist As A Young Rube--Part 4: March 19, 2007
Who, Me, President? Etc.: March 12, 2007
A View From the Brooklyn Bridge--Part Three: March 12, 2007
A View From the Brooklyn Bridge--Part Two: March 5, 2007
A View From the Brooklyn Bridge--Part One: Feb. 26, 2007
"The Queen": Feb. 19, 2007
I Blab, Therefore I Am: Jan. 29, 2007
Art Buchwald & The Art of Humor: Jan. 22, 2007
Signs of Les Times: Jan. 15, 2007
Hollywoodese Spoken Here: Jan. 1, 2007
Right Here on Our Stage Tonight--Ed Sullivan!: Dec. 18, 2006
The Cocktail Party--A Survival Manual: Dec. 4, 2006
All Aboard For Library Heaven: Oct. 23, 2006
Eat Your Heart Out, Michelin Man!: Oct. 9, 2006
Late-Breaking Interplanetary News: Sept. 4, 2006
Who Let the Dog Books Out?: Aug. 28, 2006
American Mythology: Aug. 14, 2006
Dumb-De-Dumb-Dumb: Aug. 7, 2006
My Date with Miss Right: July 3, 2006
The Swift Demise of Dan Rather: June 26, 2006
Your Drowsy Broadway Chaparone: June 19, 2006
Deadline Approaches For the Press: May 10, 2006
Baseball's Great Hot Dog Scandal: April 20, 2006
Whatever Happened to Russell Baker?: April 3, 2006
Anchors Away: March 27, 2006
Our Favorite Comic Book Heroes: March 6, 2006
The All-Time Jerrys: Feb. 27, 2006
Sitting Duck: Feb. 20, 2006
Famous Rejection Slips: Jan. 30, 2006
Designed For Disaster: Jan. 9, 2006
My Whack at Golf: Jan. 2, 2006
Single Bells, Single Bells, Single All the Way: Dec. 19, 2005
May I Show You the Door...?: Dec. 5, 2005
All Hail, Blue and White!: Nov. 14, 2005
Back To Unreality: Sept. 5, 2005
The Crazy Giraffes of Omaha: Aug. 15, 2005
The Fonda Syndrome: May 16, 2005
Beauty and the Best: May 2, 2005
The Celebrity Life: April 11, 2005
Very Advanced English 101: April 4, 2005
Broadway, Gimme A Break, Will Ya?: March 14, 2005

Ya Gotta Know the Territory--True Believer's Guide/Musicals: March 7, 2005
Death of A Playwright: Feb. 21, 2005
Words From the Would-Be Wise: Feb. 7, 2005
One Last Time Around the Block: Jan. 31, 2005
Wherrrrre's Johnny?: Jan. 27, 2005
Tell the Home Run Goodbye!: Jan. 10, 2005
The People We Most Want To See Less of in 2005 (with staff): Jan. 10, 2005
Food Fight: Jan. 3, 2005
Don't Date Yourself: Dec. 13, 2004
I'm A Member of the Liberal Minority: Nov. 15, 2004
Hot To Read A Newspaper: Aug. 30, 2004

God Loves Good Guys With Guns: July 5, 2004
Saint Ronnie: June 14, 2004
News For Incoming Martians: May 31, 2004
The Guy I Left Behind: May 17, 2004
Confessions of A Book Tour Slut: April 19, 2004
Paar For the Course: Feb. 2, 2004
DEAD--The Prequel: Feb. 2, 2004
My Life Upon the Wicked Stage: Jan. 19, 2004
Lenny's Garbled Legacy: Jan. 5, 2004
GOD Makes A Nice Comeback: Dec. 8, 2003
Return with Us...to Those Thrilling Formats of Yesteryear!: Sept. 1, 2003
Tomorrow's Gay Divorcees: Aug. 25, 2003
Bang-bang, We're Dead: March 24, 2003
Another Heartfelt Saga: March 10, 2003
Eureka! Classics Finally Out on DVD: Feb. 24, 2003
In Memory of...Two Mighty Pens: Jan. 27, 2003
Leaving An Impression: Jan. 13, 2003
On Writing: Inklings of A Career in Writing: Dec. 16, 2002
Latest Government Scare Tactics Unveiled: Dec. 2, 2002
Merchants of Grief: Sept. 9, 2002
Backstage: Sept. 2, 2002
A Comic Force of Nature: March 31, 2002
Beware Those Graven Images!: March 17, 2002
Here Come the Broadway Bio-Stars: Updated Jan. 13, 2002
Broadway's All-New Dark Age: Updated Dec. 16, 2001
"The Producers" Let Me Down: Dec. 2, 2001

Reflecting on Terror: Sept. 30, 2001
Take Me Out of the Ball Game!: May 13, 2001
"Klaatu, Borada, Nachman!": Feb. 4, 2001
Gerald Nachman's JAZZ!: Jan. 28, 2001
Gimme A B! Gimme A U! Gimme An S! Gimme An H!: Jan. 7, 2001
The Critics: Love 'em or Leave 'em: Nov. 1, 2000
Who's Laughing Anyway?: Sept. 27, 2000
Pop Go the Hollywood Weasels!: Sept. 13, 2000
O Where,O Where Have Those Pin-Up Girls Gone?: Aug. 23, 2000
Guilty Pleasures: July 11, 2000
Surviving Television's Latest Trend: June 28, 2000
So Many Opinions... So Little Time!: June 14, 2000
Our New (Silent) Movie Stars: April 26, 2000
Muzak, Muzak, Everywhere…And Not A Note I Like!: April 19, 2000
Crossdressing For Success: April 5, 2000
Let's Really Hear It For . . . Just About Anybody!: March 15, 2000
Shakespeare You Da Man! Feb. 16, 2000
Broadway Enters A New "Dark Age": Jan. 26, 2000
Now That Hollywood Is Thinking Small: Jan. 21, 2000
Babylon: The Director's Cut: Jan. 19, 2000
Best of the New Books Hot Off the Millennium Press: Jan. 12, 2000
If God Did TV Talk Shows: Dec. 3, 1999
Lamenting Lost Showtunes of Deservedly Obscure Composers: Dec. 1, 1999

 ANDREW PENNER

 

Acute Performance Failure: Nov. 26, 2007
The Perfect Storm: Dec. 5, 2005
Golfing in the Canadian Prairies...in January: Dec. 8, 2003
Golf and Bingo Are Relatives: April 21, 2003
Golf Goes to the Movies: Feb. 10, 2003
A Pox Upon Cheating Golfers: Nov. 4, 2002
Negative Self-Talk on the Golf Course: Sept. 30, 2002
Are You An Avid Golfer?: Sept. 16, 2002
Rejoice, Hacker!: June 30, 2002

Bass Ackwards: April 14, 2002
Golf Partners from Hell: Dec. 30, 2001
How to Stay Fit for Golf This Winter: Nov. 4, 2001

 LYNN PERRIER

 

 

2009

A Kiss From Mom To Keep You Safe: Jan. 12, 2009

2008
It Came Upon A Midnight Bagel: Dec. 22, 2008

Fluffy, Security Cat: Sept. 1, 2008
I'd Rather Have A Cat Than A Bat!: July 28, 2008
So Near and Yet So Far: July 21, 2008
The Spirit of A Cat: July 7, 2008

2001
Change Your Name

Rhapsody With the Perfect Mate
Seems I'm On A First Name Basis With Practically Everybody
What Will the Minister Think?

I Bonded With A Whale
Love is Where You Find It
Feeding Finicky Felines
My Afternoon with Al Pacino
Cat Symphony No. 1 in ME Flat
They Wouldn't Let Me Have An Elephant, So...

 DONNA J. PLESH

 

Three Doses of Geunine Reality: June 15, 2009
Nobody Asked Me, But...: June 8, 2009
On the Bubble: May 11, 2009
"Southland": April 6, 2009
The Return of "Cupid": March 23, 2009
"Better Off Ted": March 9, 2009
"Ashes To Ashes": March 2, 2009
What Shows Do People Really Watch?: Feb. 16, 2009
"China Beach": Dec. 1, 2008
A Ricky Gervais Letdown: Nov. 10, 2008
Exotic Expeditions--A Week of Them: Nov. 10, 2008
"Life on Mars"--U.S. Version: Oct. 6, 2008
"The Amazing Race": Sept. 15, 2008
"The Mentalist": Sept. 8, 2008
"The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle": Sept. 1, 2008
"The Locator": Aug. 25, 2008
"Gavin & Stacey": Aug. 18, 2008
Young and Naughty...Again!: Aug. 4, 2008
The Plight of BBC America: July 28, 2008
A Cornucopia From Cable: July 21, 2008
"Entertainment Tonight" Revisited: July 7, 2008
The Summer of Reality...Gone Wild!: June 23, 2008
Come Aboard PBS' "Carrier": April 21, 2008
"Return to the Amazon": March 31, 2008
HBO's "John Adams": March 10, 2008
Hello, TV 2008!: Jan. 7, 2008
The 2007 Fall TV Season: Sept. 17, 2007
TV's Upcoming Goodies: May 28, 2007
Rekindling the Fever for 'Lost': April 2, 2007
'Robin Hood': Feb. 26, 2007
The Librarian--Return to King Solomon's Mines: Dec. 4, 2006
Two New Sitcoms: Nov. 20, 2006
Has 'Lost' Lost Its Way?: Nov. 13, 2006
The Return of 'Meerkat Manor': Sept. 25, 2006
Some Special NotesAbout the Fall TV Season: Aug. 28, 2006
The New TV Shows: Aug. 28, 2006
"Vanished": Aug. 21, 2006
"Broken Trail": June 19, 2006
Helen Mirren as 'Elizabeth I': April 20, 2006
Another Cousteau, Another Odyssey: March 27, 2006
Biff! Boom! BAM! It's NBC's 'Heist': March 20, 2006
TV's Basket of Goodies: Feb. 13, 2006
Saturday Night is the Loneliest TV Night of the Week: Oct. 31, 2005
Three Fall TV Creepers: Sept. 12, 2005
"Everybody Hates Chris": Sept. 12, 2005
"My Name is Earl": Sept. 12, 2005
'SUPERNATURAL': Sept. 5, 2005
HBO's 'ROME': Aug. 22, 2005
'The Comeback': May 30, 2005
'EMPIRE FALLS': May 23, 2005
CBS' 'ELVIS' Miniseries: May 2, 2005
"The Night Detective": Jan. 31, 2005
'The Life & Death of Peter Sellers': Dec. 6, 2004
'Murder in Suburbia' & 'Waking the Dead': Nov. 15, 2004
"Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars": Oct. 11, 2004
Austin Stevens, Snakemaster!: Oct. 4, 2004
'Lost': Sept. 13, 2004
Look Who's Coming Back!: Sept. 13, 2004 (with Ron Miller)
'Jack & Bobby'--The Real Deal: Sept. 6, 2004
Alone at Last: 'Joey': Sept. 6, 2004
'Messiah': July 26, 2004
"The Amazing Race 5": June 28, 2004
Look Out! New TV Season Coming: June 7, 2004
Helen Mirren and Her Jane: April 5, 2004
Welcome to 'Deadwood': March 8, 2004
The Reality of TV Today: March 1, 2004
'Trust' Isn't Catching: Feb. 16, 2004
PBS Remembers the Alamo: Jan. 19, 2004
Jonathan Creek--Black Canary: Dec. 21, 2003
Television Does December: Dec. 8, 2003
The Fall TV Season...So Far: Nov. 10, 2003
Fox's ' 'Arrested Development': Oct. 20, 2003
Goodbye, 'EastEnders': Oct. 13, 2003
ABC's 'Karen Sisco': Sept. 29, 2003
NBC's 'Coupling': Sept. 22, 2003
CBS' 'Hope and Faith': Sept. 22, 2003
CBS' 'Two and A Half Men': Sept. 15, 2003
CBS' 'Joan of Arcadia': Sept. 15, 2003
CBS' 'The Brotherhood of Poland, New Hampshire': Sept. 15, 2003
HBO's 'Carnivale': Sept. 8, 2003
Dead Gorgeous: July 7, 2003
The Talented Mr. Monk: June 30, 2003
Two Winners From England: June 16, 2003

'Keen Eddie': June 9, 2003
Upfronts and Personal: April 21, 2003
Time To Depart!: Feb. 17, 2003

My Guilty TV Pleasures: Feb. 10, 2003
Some Reasons to Still Watch Television: Jan. 13, 2003
News=Promos at 'Entertainment Tonight': June 9, 2002
Where Have You Gone, My 'Pasadena'?: Feb. 10, 2002

Will There Ever Be Another 'Moonlighting'?: Dec. 9, 2001
'Friends" & A Sexy British Cousin: Oct. 7, 2001

 FERRIS ROBINSON

 

Saying Goodbye to Ruth: Aug. 21, 2006
Safety First--The Ferris School of Slow Drivin': July 31, 2006
A Boy Goes Camping: June 26, 2006


 TED SIELAFF

 

Ted's Progress Report: May 22, 2006
Change of Strategy: April 20, 2006
Climbing Another Mountain: April 3, 2006
When Phones Were Scarce: March 26, 2006
Making Yourself Happy: Jan. 16, 2006

About Those Walkers: Dec. 5, 2005
A Low-Tech Opportunity: Oct. 24, 2005
Swedes in America, Part Two: Oct. 4, 2005
Swedes in America: Sept. 12, 2005
A Visit to the Carter Center: May 30, 2005
Fun!: May 3, 2005
Bad Psychology=Bad Management: March 21, 2005
Amateur Investor Meets S&P: Jan. 27, 2005


 JOHN STANLEY


The Man Behind 'Why We Fight': Jan. 30, 2006
The Duke's DVD Avalanche: Dec. 5, 2005
Samuel Fuller's Dream: Dec. 6, 2004
The Horrors of Making A Low-Budget Horror Movie: April 19, 2004
Remembering A Buddy Named Ebsen: July 14, 2003

Uncle Miltie in Motion: March 31, 2002
In the Early Days of Cosby: Dec. 2, 2001
The Point Men: Oct. 7, 2001
SAGA of the SANDPAPER KID: April 27, 2001
A Memory of Stanley Kramer: Feb. 25, 2001
Shadow of the Vampire: Feb. 11, 2001
Left Behind by 'Left Behind': Feb. 4, 2001
Finding Forrester: Jan. 21, 2001
"Thirteen Days": Jan. 14, 2001
Wes Craven Presents Dracula 2000: Jan. 7, 2000
"Unbreakable": Dec. 10, 2000
"Proof of Life": Dec. 10, 2000
"The 6th Day": Nov. 30, 2000
Book Of Shadows: Blair Witch 2: Oct. 31, 2000
My  Five Favorite Horror/Sci-Fi Movies: Oct. 31, 2000
The Five Worst Horror/Sci-Fi Movies: Oct. 31, 2000
Urban Legend: Final Cut: Oct. 19, 2000
Dirty Harry & My Son: Oct. 13, 2000
Some Inside Stories About Clint Eastwood: Oct. 13, 2000
The Exorcist: Sept. 28, 2000
The Composer From The Black Lagoon: Sept. 7, 2000
Max Steiner, Part 2: Sept. 1, 2000
Preserving Steiner: Sept. 1, 2000
Max Steiner: Aug. 25, 2000
The Best Scores of Max Steiner: Aug. 25, 2000
Adventures in Sound: Aug. 18, 2000
What Lies Beneath: Aug. 11, 2000
A Saddle for Nancy: July 28, 2000
America's Forgotten Action Hero: 'Brass' Bancroft: July 26, 2000
'X-MEN': July 21, 2000
Guilty Pleasures: July 14, 2000
An obsession with a place called Iwo Jima: July 7, 2000
This Remake Deserves the Shaft!: June 23, 2000
'Picnic' The Sexiest Movie Alive In 1955!: June 16, 2000
Enduring the Latest Spinoff is a "Mission Impossible": June 9, 2000
'Frequency': June 2, 2000
My Lunch at Home with Bob Hope: May 29, 2000
A Salute to Those About to Die From Director Ridley Scott: May 19, 2000
Sinking to New Depths In the "Dive, Dive!" Movie Genre: May 12, 2000
Do You Remember 3-D Comic Books?: May 5, 2000
My Golden Summer of 3-D: April 28, 2000
Final Destination: April 14, 2000
Film Composer George Duning: April 7, 2000
De Palma Loses "Face" With "Mission to Mars": March 17, 2000
Dimitri Tiomkin: The Composer Living in My Head: March 3, 2000
Dick Powell's Journey Into Darkness, Part I: Feb. 24, 2000
Dick Powell's Journey Into Darkness, Part II: Feb. 25, 2000
Reliving His Wars With Samuel Fuller: Feb. 18, 2000
An Open Letter to Wes Craven: Feb. 11, 2000
Being John Malkovich: Feb. 8, 2000
Supernova: Jan. 28, 2000
Gig for a Gigolo: Jan. 14, 2000
Galaxy Quest: Jan. 7, 2000

 ROBERT TAYLOR

 

2007
Dreaming of Escape: Oct. 15, 2007

2006
Are You Ready For the Maze Craze?: Aug. 7, 2006

The Upside of Being Scared Speechless: April 20, 2006
The Great French Car-Torching Debate (with Michael Johnson): Dec. 5, 2005
Will the Royals Go On Forever?: Feb. 21, 2005
Johnson-Taylor III (with Michael Johnson): Jan. 24, 2005
Sri Lankans Don't Cry: Jan. 17, 2005
The People We Most Want To See Less of in 2005 (with staff): Jan. 10, 2005
Europe Roots For Kerry: Oct. 27, 2004
The Dating Agency Juggernaut: Sept. 27, 2004
England's Awash in Ads From Hell: Aug. 9, 2004
The Day I Became Middle-Aged: May 17, 2004
England Won't Bow!: April 5, 2004
Doing Two Things at Once: March 8, 2004
Saddam's Last Laugh?: Feb. 2, 2004
Both Sides Now (with Michael Johnson): Dec. 8, 2003
David Blane--Latest Yank We Love to Hate: Oct. 26, 2003
The Culture of A Million Victims: Sept. 29, 2003

Blimey! We've Never Had It So Hot!: Aug. 18, 2003
The THUD Heard Round Sri Lanka: July 28, 2003
Going It Alone: June 30, 2003
Come to Finland: June 9, 2003
Has My Country Gone Brain Dead?: April 21, 2003
Guilty Confessions of A Fledgling Writer: March 31, 2003
London Tackles Traffic Congestion: March 3, 2003
Why Can't They Be More Like Us?: Feb. 10, 2003 (with Michael Johnson)
Happiness Doesn't Come Easy for Brits: Feb. 3, 2003
Thar May Be Dragons: Jan. 13, 2003
Saluting the Aussies with Beer: Dec. 2, 2002
No SAD Songs for Him: Nov. 11, 2002

The British Male...Under Siege: Oct. 14, 2002

 AUDREY YEAGER
-MOORE

 

Standing For Those Who Stood For Us: June 29, 2009
Are You Really, REALLY, Ready?: March 2, 2009
What A Character!: Dec. 1, 2008
Gosh, It's Almost Over!: Oct. 27, 2008
Oh, Sarah! Keep Smiling!: Oct. 16, 2008
A Norman Rockwell Election?: Sept. 15, 2008
How To Have A Gold Medal Brain: Aug. 11, 2008
Thank You, Mr. Jones: July 28, 2008
The Universal Soldier: June 16, 2008
Taking Issue With The Tissue: March 24, 2008
The Other Side of the Moon in Small Town America: Jan. 7,
Without A Song: Oct. 4, 2007
A Pause on the Way to Being 'Really Old': Sept. 3, 2007
Don't Monkey Around With My Rights!: Aug. 14, 2006
Bunnies in Jeopardy: April 3, 2006
In Love Again--With Cinderella Man: Feb. 13, 2006
Losing A Mother: Jan. 9, 2006
My Defense of Christmas: Dec. 19, 2005
Social Graces Not So Gracefu: Dec. 5, 2005
I Withdraw My Nomination: Oct. 31, 2005
Where Does Fat Go? Sept. 27, 2005
Elegance Defined: July 28, 2005
I Can't Get No Satisfaction: June 20, 2005
Offended to the Max!: March 28, 2005
This Pie Was A Lemon: Dec. 6, 2004
Old Glory is Still Glorious: Sept. 20, 2004
Two Books To 'Catch-Up' OnThis Summer: Aug. 2, 2004
Off On A Tangent: June 28, 2004
HELPLESS: May 17, 2004
My Debt to Martha: March 29, 2004
The Fire in My Kitchen: Feb. 16, 2004
Progress? Show Me!: Jan. 5, 2004
The Waiting Gift in the Orchard: Dec. 21, 2003
May We Always Dance: Dec. 8, 2003
The Best Candidate Has the Nicest Smile: Oct. 26, 2003
Three Sudden Blows to Our Popular Culture: Sept. 29, 2003
Deliver Us from Bum Service: Sept. 22, 2003
A Woman in Need of Rehab: Sept. 1, 2003
Watch Your Coattails!: July 28, 2003
The Miracle of the Wallet: July 14, 2003
Beware!!! Cut-Rate Vacations!!!: June 30, 2003
Doctor Jekyll and My Dad: June 9, 2003
The Analyst: May 19, 2003
Nesting Instincts of the American Female: April 21, 2003
If I Could Talk To An Iraqi Grandmother: April 7, 2003
She's in the Jailhouse Now!: March 31, 2003
Going to the Chair!: Feb. 24, 2003
On Writing: Writing and Why I Do It: Feb. 17, 2003
Not the Time for Violins: Jan. 27, 2003
No Line Through Her Name: Jan. 13, 2003
There'll Always Be A Christmas 'Up North': Dec. 16, 2002
Even Frogs Get the Blues When It Rains: Dec. 2, 2002
How OKAY Are You?: Nov. 18, 2002
Blame It on Ireland: Oct. 28, 2002
My Annual Most Embarrassing Moment: Oct. 7, 2002
Give Me A Door to Lock: Sept. 23, 2002
A Dark Harvest: Sept. 9, 2002
Gone With the Chicken: Sept. 2, 2002
Give Us A Little Smile, Kid!: Aug. 26, 2002
When America Stepped on the Gas: Aug. 5, 2002
When An Old Friend Lets You Down: July 7, 2002
The Shock of the 21st Century: June 16, 2002
Join the Blonde Nation?: June 2, 2002
Mother Joined A Biker Gang: May 12, 2002
Beasts Are Among Us: May 5, 2002
The Tears of Many Tomorrows: April 21, 2002
Judge Me Not! I'm A Fan!: March 3, 2002
When I Wasn't Looking: Feb. 3, 2002
Tattoo or Not Tattoo?: Jan. 20, 2002
The Orphanage: Jan. 6, 2002
Countdown to Christmas: Dec. 23, 2001
Two Years is Long Enough: Dec. 2, 2001
A Child's Anguish: Nov. 11, 2001
Reflecting on Terror 2: Oct. 21, 2001
Reflecting on Terror: Sept. 30, 2001
There's No Place Like Home: Sept. 9, 2001
When Dads Start Hating All Boys: Aug. 12, 2001
Not Exactly Peanuts & Crackerjacks: July 29, 2001
Girl Overboard HMS: July 8, 2001
Know-it-alls & Know Nothings: June 17, 2001
Umbrellanacht!: April 27, 2001
Was There Ever A Winter Like That One?: April 22, 2001
Abbott and Costello Meet the Grandkids: April 15, 2001
 White Coats Give Me the Blues: March 4, 2001
Daddy's Packard Was A Lady: Feb. 18, 2001
 Who Writes the Songs?: Feb. 11, 2001
One Short Black Hair: Feb. 4, 2001
A Homage To the Great American Handbag: Jan. 21, 2001
Black Holes & Stuff Like That: Jan. 14, 2001
Acts of Kindness: Dec. 24, 2000
In Celebration of Jane: Dec. 3, 2000
Mission Impossible at the Used Car Lot: Nov. 8, 2000
All That Glitters: Sept. 25, 2000
The Innocent Face of Tragedy: July 20, 2000
Tee For Whom?: July 5, 2000

 DAVID ZINMAN

 

The Little Tree That Wouldn't Give Up: March 9, 2009
Inside the Milk-Cancer Controversy: Feb. 23, 2009
Love Insurance For Sale: Feb. 9, 2009
Baseball Cards and Boyhood Dreams: Dec. 22, 2008
The Man With the Machine Gun Mouth: Oct. 13, 2008
Oscar's Legion of the Neglected: Feb. 18, 2008
Getting Involved: Jan. 21, 2008
The Festival Where Shaw Still is King: Oct. 5, 2007
Do Today's Germans Still Remember?: Jan. 29, 2007
Losing Your Partner in Life: Sept. 25, 2006
There's Life After The Last Picture Show: Feb. 27, 2006
The Haunted Rescue Mission: Dec. 5, 2005
The Day Huey Died: Sept. 21, 2005

The Foreign Flavor of College Sports: April 18, 2005
Dear Senator
: A Secret Daughter Speaks: Feb. 14, 2005

Who Exactly Does 'Who's Who' Think I Am?: Jan. 17, 2005
'Strom' On Stage: Dec. 6, 2004
The Samaritan Syndrome: Nov. 15, 2004
The Second Coming of Chautauqua: June 14, 2004
"My Greatest Shot": April 5, 2004
Cass Irvin--Myth Buster: March 29, 2004
Service, Anyone?: Jan. 5, 2004
The Ring: Dec. 8, 2003
A Paradise for Actors: Oct. 20, 2003
Strom Thurmond: July 7, 2003
Beyond the Blue Verizon: March 10, 2003
The Class That Stuck Together: Jan. 27, 2003
The Perfect Golf Shot: Sept. 2, 2002
A Duffer's Valiant Try for Valhalla: April 21, 2002
Epitaths Anyone?: March 24, 2002
A Teacher Learns: Feb. 10, 2002
The Night I Auditioned for 'Cabaret': Jan. 20, 2002
Why I Took My Hernia to Canada: Dec. 2, 2001
Reflecting on Terror: Sept. 30, 2001
Celebrating AVA: July 22, 2001
Words From A Loving Father: June 17, 2001
Eat the Runt: June 10, 2001

 

 Guest Columnists
listed in alphabetical order

 HARRY ADAIR
Lending A Helping Hand: Dec. 10, 2007

 JAMES BAWDEN
Remembering Fay Wray: Aug. 23, 2004
"All About Eve": Oscars2001
Audrey Totter--Hollywood's Favorite 'Bad Girl': March 7, 2000

  DON CHILDERS
In My Mind's Eye: Feb. 4, 2001

BOB DREWS
The Good Old Days: Sept. 1, 2003
My Favorite Hamburger Diner:
I Miss You!: Feb. 17, 2002
My Sister's Rabbit: Dec. 30, 2001
 

NATASHA JOHNSON
Outback with An American College Girl: Jan. 13, 2003

DAVID KIEFER
Teen Angst & Station Wagon Summers: July 28, 2002

RENEE LIZEE
Play Ball!: Oct. 14, 2002

CALLIE McFADDEN
 Callie's Case for the Defense: Jan. 6, 2003

 NORM MILLER
Confessions of A Little Brother: May 6, 2001

 RANDALL POE
Martha and the Press: , 2004
The Demonization of the CEO: Nov. 25, 2002


 FERRIS ROBINSON
A Boy Goes Camping: June 26, 2006

 LEO SELIGSON
In Search of the Real China: April 21, 2003

 JOHNNY SHEFFIELD
There's No Holding This Tiger!: April 15, 2001
Memoirs of A Jungle Boy
Memoirs of A Jungle Boy, Part 2

 GRACE W. THOMSON
Love: It's A Mystery: Feb. 10, 2003


OTHER GUEST COLUMNISTS HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO THIS SITE. BUT THEIR
COLUMNS ARE NO LONGER IN OUR ARCHIVES.

 

 A New Life in Paris
By Karen Sharpe

 

 KAREN SHARPE's 29-chapter book, "A New Life in Paris," has been
removed from the archive to make room for new columns. It may return at a future date. Anyone interested in corresponding with Ms. Sharpe about her book may do so through
TALKBACK.

  

 REPORTING THE NEWS
FROM A POLICE STATE

A Moscow Cold War Memoir

By MICHAEL JOHNSON

Michael Johnson, who covered the Cold War Soviet Union for the
Associated Press, tells what it was like to report the beginnings of
the collapse of the USSR under the tight rules of the Cold War.

Introduction: Sept. 9, 2001 

 Chapter 1: Going to Moscow: Sept. 9, 2001

 Chapter 2: People Passing Through: Sept. 30, 2001

 Chapter 3: In Custody: Sept. 30, 2001

 Chapter 4: The Colder War for Soviet Jews: Oct. 7, 2001

 Chapter 5: Desperately Seeking Solzhenitsyn: Oct. 14, 2001

 
DEER CRICK DIARIES
By Michael Johnson

 

Former AP foreign correspondent Michael Johnson was raised in the small
midwestern town of Delphi, Indiana. In this book of memoirs, he tells
what it was like to grow up the son of the local newspaper publisher--and
a member of a very colorful American family.

 Chapter 1: Delphi--She's Beautiful! Look Her Over: July 8, 2001

 Chapter 2: The Merry Pranksters of Delphi, Indiana: July 22, 2001
with an original Jim Hummel illustration

 Chapter 3: Farewell, My Church, Farewell!: July 29, 2001

 Chapter 4: No, We Were NOT Hicks!: Aug. 5, 2001


 Special Editions
& Theme Weeks
From time to time, columnists will write
a series of columns around a common theme for one-time special editions or running series.

A CENTURY OF HOPE
BOB HOPE 100th BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE

 RON MILLER: The Comic Legacy of Bob Hope: May 19, 2003

 ANN JILLIAN: Into the War Zone with Bob Hope: May 26, 2000

 JOHN STANLEY: My Lunch at Home with Bob Hope: May 29, 2000

ANDY MURCIA: A Good Man: June 23, 2002 

 RON MILLER: My Times With Bob Hope: May 25, 2000

 Jungle Week #1 & #2

 Ron Miller: Bomba of Hollywood: March 29, 2000
Ron Miller: Jane Goes To the Movies: Dec. 3, 2000

 Johnny Sheffield: Memoirs of A Jungle Boy
 Johnny Sheffield: Memoirs of A Jungle Boy, Part 2

 Audrey Yeager: In Celebration of Jane: Dec. 3, 2000

 Remembering 3-D

 Ron Miller: Was "Dial M for Murder" the Best 3-D Film?: April 27, 2000

 Ron Miller: Films of the 3-D Era

 John Stanley: My Golden Summer of 3-D: April 28, 2000

 John Stanley: Do You Remember 3-D Comic Books?: May 5, 2000

 Salute to Clint Eastwood

 Murry Frymer: Murry Slept Here: Oct. 9, 2000

 Ron Miller: Eastwood...without A Net: Oct.10, 2000

Ann Jillian: Close Encounters of the Clint Kind: Oct. 11, 2000

  John Stanley: Dirty Harry & My Son: Oct. 13, 2000

 John Stanley: Some Inside Stories About Clint Eastwood: Oct. 13, 2000

  Joanne MacDonnell: The Night I DIDN'T Party with Clint: Sept. 2, 2001

 Far, Far Out Week!
(Feb. 4-11, 2001)
A week of Sci-Fi columns

 Ron Miller's DOOM SURVIVOR: Part 1

 Ron Miller's DOOM SURVIVOR: Part 2

 Ron Miller's DOOM SURVIVOR: Part 3

 Ron Miller: Hooked in the Dawn of the Sci-Fi Age

 Ron Miller: Alternate Worlds

 Chuck McFadden: Portrait of the Artist As A Teenage Sci-Fi Geek

 Gerald Nachman: "Klaatu, Borada, Nachman!"

 Prof. Don Childers: In My Mind's Eye

John Stanley: Left Behind by 'Left Behind'

 Audrey Yeager: One Short Black Hair

 The SPOTLIGHT Series
Features profiles on individual columnists

MURRY FRYMER: Jan. 7, 2001
JOHN STANLEY: Jan. 14, 2001
GERALD NACHMAN: Jan. 28, 2001
JIM HUMMEL: Feb. 4, 2001
GINA GALLO: Feb. 18, 2001
STAN ISAACS: March 4, 2001
AUDREY YEAGER: April 22, 2001