December is National Pear Month, not just because we hear about them in a famous Christmas carol, but because most of the ...

Robertson’s gothic, bucolic burlesque is a parable as relevant as any in the Bible. In “The Weight,” a road-weary traveler ...

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Do you recall the Christmas song, “The Most Wonderful Day of the Year”? It is from the classic holiday special, “Rudolph the ...

A young woman is gingerly applying lipstick for her upcoming date, unaware of the horrible fate awaiting her. This may sound ...

Today, Friday the 13th remains a fixture in pop culture. For pop megastar Taylor Swift, the date is cause not for dread but celebration — she was born on Dec. 13, and turned 35 on Friday. She and her ...

How many roads must a man walk down to play Bob Dylan? Quite a few, at least, if you're Timothée Chalamet. Off and on for ...

Origins unknown, flimp debuted in John Camden Hotten’s The Slang Dictionary of 1873, a colloquial bible now online. The entry ...

Well into Advent, well into the run-up to Christmas, the lawns in town and the ranchers’ pastures that stretched across the prairie to the east were bare, uncovered in their winter poverty. Naked in ...

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Film fans are furious as Hollywood is reportedly lining up a remake of another iconic movie. It’s been 56 years since Chitty ...