Michael Kelly is, as always, dead on in his June 5 column. It becomes harder and harder to express just how depressing the Church Scandal is—or rather it’s handling by the very people we depend upon to preserve the institution. As Kelly points out, the bishop’s new policy “is, ultimately and still, a shameful refusal… Continue reading

It’s always fun to see how the summer box office gets going. The surprise hit, Spiderman, continues to outpace Attack of the Clones in terms of its final tally. The surprise bomb of the season so far is Jerry Bruckheimer’s Bad Company (although it looked awful just from the previews.) Box Office Mojo has the… Continue reading

Today Apple released a public beta version of QuickTime 6. I have just spent a few hours playing with it, and the new MPEG-4 File Format is superb. Not only can you now author QuickTime movies that are fully viewable in Real Player, but once Real updates its codecs to allow MPEG-4, both media formats… Continue reading

The Red Sox took two out of three in the Bronx this weekend. You can tell from the Times and other papers that the Yankees still don’t want to take the Sox seriously, but the great Don Zimmer was more up front when he said the Sox “aren’t going to go away.” This delightful snippet… Continue reading