A movie you should see: The Father and the Bear
Writer-director-actor John Putch grew up in two wildly different settings, simultaneously: rural south central Pennyslvania where I hail…
1962 The Year in Movies
The Oscars are notoriously wrong in hindsight. Studio politics, aesthetic trends, and cultural ephemera often trumped an honest…
Rediscovering Henry James
As a former lit major, I spent most of my twenties reading “the classics,” especially American novelists of…
Watercolors: Lake Michigan 2014
Working in small format reduces the urge to get bogged down in detail. These two are each 3″…
Around Town: Willard Hotel
Hotel lobbies remain one of the last great bastions of just…sitting, without having to buy a cup of…
