Pop Culture Lunch Box

We woke up pretty tired and decided to make Day 2 in Puerto Rico our lazy day.  We ate free breakfast at the hotel then headed for the ...

I was interviewed by Amtrak for its fine blog, and the article, about what to do if you ride the train into Washington D.C., was just pub...

The family has just returned from our spring-break trip to Puerto Rico . And I'll recap it here over the next several days. If you ...

Being a reader of lots of classics and most recently a somber tale of laborious life in North Korea , it's necessary to break it u...

The filmmakers at Disney have always been brilliant, but they outdid themselves with 2007's Ratatouille , which I thought I had see...

Matthew McConaughey may have seemed a bit of an egotistical jerk lately, but if Dallas Buyers Club is an indication, his actin...

Here's my take on one of my favorite John Lennon solo songs, "Woman" from 1980's tragically concluding Double Fantasy....

My six-year-old Jackson and I have started our regular movie adventures recently with The Lego Movie and Mr. Peabody and Sherman . So it ...

If you’ve ever heard the phrase, “an albatross around one’s neck,” which pertains to certain levels of guilt, then you’ve been touched by...

The Orphan Master’s Son is the best new novel I’ve read in a few years. Its disorienting series of flashbacks and flash-forwards is ...