Anyone who owned a home during the last ten years remembers one thing very well: The avalanche of junk mail assaulting us with spectacular offers to take advantage of rising home equity. If nothing else, these crooks should be contributing cash to support landfills and recycling systems, not to mention planting a few billion trees!
“You were positively loathsome,” theatre-goers said as they shook James J Patterson’s hand while exiting the Al Lefcowitz Theatre at The Writer’s Center, in Bethesda, Md, after viewing a staged reading of the new play Anna Nicole, by Grace Cavalieri. See a brief review and pictures here! I was able to deflect attention away from
Every spring, Oxford University puts on a literary festival like no other, and the legendary Blackwell’s Book Shop, lead by the incomparable Rita Ricketts, sponsors a Fringe Festival to coincide with it. This year, James J Patterson read from his forthcoming book of essays and fiction, Bermuda Shorts, a little story called, “Something Out of Nothing.”
Republicans have become like mean little Boy Scouts gone wrong. They no longer wish to help granny cross the street, they won’t share their dessert, and they refuse to sit with the foreign kid at school. Now, like mean little brats, they openly decree that if they can’t play Captain, they want to sink the
Rose Solari, Poet Extraordinaire, inspired by the recent NHL All-Star Game, has unearthed a terrific piece she once did for the legendary SportsFan Magazine! It’s called, “How the New Age Movement Drove Me to the National Hockey League!” Enjoy!
January 29th is the 273rd birthday of the man who gave our country the name, “The United States of America.” In the 1820’s, more than a decade after his ignominious death, admirers of Thomas Paine began a tradition of meeting in pubs around the world on his birthday to raise a glass to the man