Performance Art: Boston style:Jay Fitzgerald beats me to this beauty. If you can stand the crappy camera work–no wait, just turn around from your screen and listen to the beer-soaked caterwauling. The guy’s blood-alcohol must be 40%…. It should be beyond belief. But it’s not. Because it’s Boston.

Well, this is a shock: A survey released last week found one reason America doesn’t top the list: Baby Boomers are generally miserable compared to other generations. Further, a public opinion poll released by the Pew Research Center in April found that 81 percent of Americans say they believe the country is on the “wrong… Continue reading

With the 4th of July weekend up ahead and a nice long summer for lovers of books on the beach (or books on ipod as you jog), I’ve decided on a weekly basis to beat the drums for my one contribution to the beach reading genre. Think about adding it to your list. I’m up… Continue reading

Since it’s Friday and the looming end of the work week naturally brings on thoughts of what beverages I’d like to concoct when I get home, have I mentioned that Richard John Neuhaus is my kind of priest? Note the cigar in addition to the cordial.

Anthony Lane dismembers Angelina Collagen’s Jolie’s new movie, Wanted. Is it me, or is she starting to resemble those mannequins that famed Italian horror film director Mario Bava put to such good use in his classics, Black Sunday and Black Sabbath?