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The Seattle band Floating Bridge released the song "Don't Mean a Thing" in 1969.  I loved it back then, when I was 15 years ...

After hours of watching the Republican and Democratic party conventions, I have a question. Many questions, actually.   Some candidates...

The plot of Unfriended   (available on HBO Go) is easy to grasp, but this film is unconventional to say the least. It takes place entirely...

By John Grisham Doubleday, 368 pp.  ISBN:   978-0-385-53714-8 John Grisham is a novel-writing machine, having pumped out some 29 boo...

According to this story in The New Yorker , there is a culture of treasure hunting in southwest Poland. With good reason: they keep finding ...

This 1990 film directed by Ken Loach takes on a complex political issue: the role of the British in Northern Ireland in the 1980s. There are...

Selected items from the Watlington Hoard Probably buried over 1,000 years ago, this coin hoard was discovered in a farmer's field i...

305 pp, Reagan Arthur/Little Brown, 2012 ISBN 978-0-316-20323-4 (Kindle edition) This is a novel about high school cheerleaders. But don...

Proving once again that you can find just about anything you desire on the internet, someone has created a blog about the London Transport...

Go Naked in the World (1961) With that title, and these actors, this sounds like a joke. But it’s not.  Link:  Go Naked in the Wo...

Scanning 865 channels of DirecTV for New Year's Eve entertainment, I came upon pop singer Jessie J performing her smash hit Bang Bang . ...

Once at full capacity, the  Keystone XL oil pipeline    would have delivered over 300 million barrels of Canadian oil to the U.S. annually. ...

The Moody Blues Deram SML 711 UK 1968 Spurred on by a lousy treatment in this Wikipedia article , I offer my interpretation of th...

Today we launch our new proprietary stock picking system: Barron’s Buffett Barometer, or  B-Cubed ( B 3 for ease of reference). At its he...

I am weary of reading about Warren Buffett in Barron’s. This week the magazine mentioned him twice. A couple of weeks ago, his company Berk...

To: The Editor  Las Vegas Review-Journal   Sir:  I wish your comics page included my favorite features: Rex Morgan M.D . and Judge Par...

I blanched when I read this quote from journalist David Roberts, which appeared in  Bill  McKibben's  Power to the People: Why the Rise ...

Life became more difficult recently when a phrase from an old British TV advertisement popped into my mind, interrupting my train of thought...

Archaeologists recently found about 300 Roman coins buried on the grounds of a school in Reading, England. These intrepid explorers c ame up...

This hoard was concealed in a secret compartment in a chest of drawers. How long had the treasure been hidden there? That's anyone's...