I like Wesley Morris as a film critic, but I have no idea why he decided writing about Tom Brady's hair for Grantland was a good idea....
Over at the DG, my colleague Margaret Hartley writes about her recent trip to Las Vegas in her weekly column Greenpoint. Here's an...
As editor of a major business news publication in Birmingham, Ala., I do a lot of public speaking, mostly about the newspaper itself or...
Over at the DG, I review Primus' concert at the Palace Theatre in Albany last week. Here's an excerpt: Primus, I’m happy...
Am I the only person who's disturbed by all this talk of gutting the U.S. Postal Service? I love the post office! I can see where...
The band I saw tonight. Albany's answer to DeVotchKa and the Gogol Bordello?
On her blog Virgin Islands Traveller, my friend Susanna Henighan Potter writes about Alexander Hamilton's Caribbean roots, and her...
In my column this week at the DG, I write about my recent trip to New York City, and visiting the 9/11 Memorial and Park 51 - the...
Wilco is currently one of the greatest rock bands in the world, but detractors like to describe the band's music as "dad rock." I have...
Last week my co-worker passed out a "job list" from a local martial arts academy that was developed to motivate youngsters to complete...
Over at the DG, I make my week 4 NFL picks . Here's an excerpt: "BUFFALO BILLS at Cincinnati Bengals — Is it time to...
One of the weirder musical collaborations in history will be released to the wider world at the end of October, when the Lou...
I used to love "The X-Files." I haven't watched the show or thought about it all that much in recent years, but this week I found...
Seriously, this is amazing. Here's an excerpt: "Frank and Louie the cat was born with two faces, two mouths, two noses, three...
Today at work someone asked me I remembered the Red Sox collapse of 1978. "Not really," I said. "I was three-years-old." Then my...
After Opeth’s Mikael Akerfeldt recorded two demos for the Swedish band’s latest album, he came to a realization. Though the...
Chris Anderson has an interesting piece in the Washington Post about the "problem" of email overload. I put the word problem in...
Over at his visual arts blog, my DG colleague David Brickman writes about public art, specifically the controversy over an abstract...
I went to Iceland on vacation and loved it. Here are five cool things I saw. 5. The Blue Lagoon: Icelanders get most of their power...
Over at the DG, I review the new movie "The Guard." Here's an excerpt: “'The Guard'” is a trifle but, as trifles go,...
Salon has started a new series that I find rather interesting. The online publication is inviting readers to get in touch with "someone...
Over at Grantland, Malcolm Gladwell takes on NBA commissioner David Stern and his claim that the NBA is about to fall to economic...
Looks like health insurance costs are rising sharply. Question: Wasn't health reform supposed to prevent this sort of thing? I...
Generally, I'm a big proponent of listening to an album at least 2 or 3 times before deciding whether I really like it or not. Some...
Over the weekend, I had the chance to visit the 9/11 Memorial, which I wrote about today in my blog at the DG. Here's an excerpt:...