Buster Keaton goes to Boston
Opinion April 24, 2013 2 Comments
by Hugh Gilmore Karl Marx famously wrote that history repeats itself, first as tragedy, later as farce. Some events this week convinced me that both tragedy and farce are in the eye of the beholder. Labeling something as comedy doesn’t make it funny to its victims. This past week of terrible, terrible news began with [...]
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Jim’s 4 hours with today’s medical/industrial complex
Opinion April 19, 2013 1 Comment
by Jim Harris I checked in to the eye doctor’s office at 8 a.m., not seeing very well, feeling pretty old. The new office was a gleaming, sprawling complex, abuzz with activity. Patients were rolling in — literally. Many were leaning on wheeled walkers, propelled more by the inexorable pull of gravity than by any [...]
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Commentary: Saying goodbye on Prom Night
Opinion April 18, 2013 0 Comments
by Barbara Olson I am an embarrassment to my teenage son, who is my constant and cruelest critic. In his mind, he carries the horrific burden of owning a mother. More specifically, the burden of owning a mother who goes out in public amongst his peers. And talks. Anything the mother of a teenage boy [...]
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A trip through the surreal to see the Dali Museum
Opinion April 18, 2013 0 Comments
by Hugh Gilmore My wife and I hate flying and enjoy train rides, so last week we boarded Amtrak’s Silver Star and let it carry us down the eastern seaboard to Tampa, Fla. That’s a 24-hour-ride, made much easier by booking a sleeper for Jan and me and a “roomette” for our 26-year-old son, Andrew. [...]
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The Library: New media, same mission
Opinion April 17, 2013 0 Comments
by Pete Mazzaccaro I’ll bet you didn’t know this week was National Library Week. That’s right, our nation’s libraries – storehouses of everything from kids movies on VHS tapes to scholarly journals unavailable anywhere else – get their own week. Libraries? Who uses those anymore? Ten years ago, it seemed strange behavior to choose the [...]
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Is there a politician left who is NOT in favor of gay marriage?
Opinion April 12, 2013 0 Comments
by Jim Harris On April 1, our Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) announced that he is now totally in favor of gay dollars, er, votes, er, marriage. (And it was NOT an April Fool joke.) The race to embrace same-sex marriage has been an abrupt, unforeseen sea change in American public opinion. It has produced some [...]
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Hill resident teaches how to become a paid movie ‘extra’
Opinion April 12, 2013 0 Comments
by Lou Mancinelli Ever wonder how anyone becomes a paid “extra” in TV shows and movies? Wonder no more. Sandra Carr, a Chestnut Hill resident, will teach “Getting Paid as a TV Extra,” Saturday, May 18, 10 a.m. to noon, and Saturday, June 8, noon to 2 p.m., on behalf of the Mt. Airy Learning [...]
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