I don't know when I'll be leaving this earth, or where I'm going to be buried* but I do know what I want it to say on my tombstone: Not to be ghoulish, but in the spirit of Halloween, and in mournful acknowledgement that Atlanta's awesome 8 month...

Another icon of Boomer TV falls -- Soupy Sales, nee Milton Supman of Franklinton, NC.  More than the pie-in-the-face that was his trademark, there was nobody quite as secretly subversive as Soupy on kid's TV until Pee Wee Herman came along. Like Pee...

I've just finished a big sprawling mess of a 720 page novel -- which I loved -- called Great Neck, by Jay Cantor. The novel follows a group of friends from 6th grade forward through the Civil Rights Movement, Black Power, feminism and the radical left....

According to the Wall Street Journal, one of the biggest, most high-profile deals of the commercial real-estate boom is in danger of imminent default. New York's Stuvyesant Town, where so many baby boomers like me were born and raised, and which was...