TV Review: “Tiger King”

Mar 30, 2020 | Television

Like you, I’ve been hungry to find streaming video shows worth binge-watching while we’re sheltering at home. This weekend, I found a doozy on Netflix. “Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness” is a documentary about people who owned exotic...

My Nate ‘n Al Story

Mar 30, 2020 | Blog

When I read that the famed Hollywood delicatessen Nate ‘n Al has closed, I remembered a story about the only time I went there. Fifteen or twenty years ago, I called my friend Jon Macks — longtime writer for “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” and...

Out For A Walk

Mar 29, 2020 | Blog

While out walking this afternoon, Martha and I noticed lots of people similarly enjoying the sunshine — walking dogs, riding bikes, doing lawn work, or something (anything!) that got the kids out of the house. We ran into a couple of friends and spent several...

POTD: What The World Needs Now

Mar 29, 2020 | Picture of the Day

On a flight home from her truncated college semester at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee College, senior composition major Shelbie Rassler had an idea — get her peers who are sheltering at home to each record a piece of her arrangement of the Burt...

POTD: The Dinner Feeder

Mar 28, 2020 | Movies, Picture of the Day

This Picture Of The Day comes from Joseph Herscher, who creates clever machines in his Brooklyn apartment to solve everyday problems with Rube-Goldberg-like designs. His latest is a device that feeds him dinner… The whole thing reminds me of this scene in...

Thanks, Teachers!

Mar 27, 2020 | Blog

When our daughter was two years old, we sent her to a “cooperative” pre-school. That word in quotes meant parents were called upon to come in and help out in the classroom on occasion. There was a schedule set up to have either a mom or dad act essentially...