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Les Triplettes de Belleville
Les Triplettes de Belleville (2003, Sony Pictures, directed by Sylvain Chomet, PG-13) Also known as The Triplets of...
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Orlando Baroque Orchestra - Da Capo
The good news is, there's a new orchestra in town: The Orlando Baroque Orchestra . Some area musicians observed Central...
Nanosurf - The Gekko Walks
Nanosurf —the company that put an atomic force microscope on Mars and good Swiss bread on Janet's table—has a cool...
Pap Smears a Thing of the Past?
Most of you can stop reading right now. The Pap smear is not a subject of general interest, but I spent five years working in a...
The Merchant of Venice
The Merchant of Venice (2004, Sony Pictures, directed by Michael Radford, R) Not since Kenneth Branagh's Henry V and...
Further Thoughts on "It Happened in Italy"
I have three further reflections on what I learned from It Happened in Italy , which didn't fit nicely into my review . The...
Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra Concert - Itzhak Perlman
Carl Maria von Weber: Ruler of the Spirits, J.109, op. 26, E-flat major Schubert: Symphony No. 9 D.944 in C...
Food, Inc.
Food, Inc. (2008, Magnolia Home Entertainment, directed by Robert Kenner, PG ) I first heard about Food, Inc. seven months...
It Happened in Italy
It Happened in Italy: Untold Stories of How the People of Italy Defied the Horrors of the Holocaust , by Elizabeth Bettina...
Learning the Presidents of the United States
Blame me, my parents, or my schools as you see fit, but after half a century as an American citizen, 13 years of public education, and a...
Terrorism - Signal, Noise, Courage
The Occasional CEO is one of my favorite non-family blogs, not only because Eric Schultz is a good writer, but also because he is a...
Advice to My 33-Year-Old Self
Jennifer at Conversion Diary is turning 33, and asked her readers what they would say to their 33-year-old selves if they could...
Hooray for Good Repairmen!
If you haven't received a call from us lately, it's not only because I don't like to use the telephone. Shortly before...
Freezing Florida
Apparently Florida has been having its longest streak of cold weather ever , worse than that in the mid-1980s, which (along with...
The Reviewer's Point of View
One who makes a practice of passing written judgement on books would do well to reveal at least some of the background and prejudices...
A Little Princess
A Little Princess , by Frances Hodgson Burnett (Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1965) I picked this book up to...
New Year's Resolution #1 - Read More Books
New Year's resolutions are, I guess, a secular version of Lent, though without Easter to look forward to. I've never given much...
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (Jonathan Cape, 2003) As with Born to Run , I picked...
Christopher McDougall : Running :: Ina May Gaskin :...
Born to Run , by Christopher McDougall (Knopf, New York, 2009) A book about running? Not my thing. On my...
Phoebe's Quilt
UPDATE: The Second Edition of Phoebe's Quilt , corrected and expanded, is now available . My sister-in-law found...
New Record Set at Pittsburgh's Cathedral of Learning
You read it here first: Steven Perezluha, who this summer rode his bicycle from Florida to Alaska and back , has blown away the...
Quick Update
The trouble with being a reasonably regular poster is that people start to worry when you get too busy to write. When someone in...
Congratulations, I'm Getting Old
First, our daughter turns 30. Then over Thanksgiving I had the privilege of taking my first nephew-driven car ride (and a great...
On Giving and Receiving Advice
John C. Wright is a science fiction writer, but his essay, On Writer's Block struck me for its wider applicability in his...
A Tale of Two Museums
The Franklin Insitute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania I don't remember my first visit to the Franklin Institute; I believe...