It’s Giving Tuesday, not that you didn’t already know that. If your inbox and alerts are configured like mine, you’ve probably received well over a dozen emails and texts pointing you to noble causes and reminding you that while you’ve recently been in the midst of spending for you and your immediate loved ones over … Read more
How apropos–or perhaps ironic–that over a holiday weekend where I’m told people were spending time with family members (not in my case, mind you) that the breaking news alerts that popped up most frequently involved politicians and their respective family members. Perhaps the noisiest was the one that happened yesterday that CNN’s duo of Marshall … Read more
In slightly more normal times a Group of Five conference tournament for a secondary women’s sport would be wholly unworthy of any sort of spotlight. The Mountain West Conference women’s volleyball tournament final that was held yesterday wasn’t even worthy of a tile on ESPN+, and the report from a local beat writer, Kevin Lytle … Read more
The joke I used to try to tell in order to determine how generationally disparate people were was to ask them to describe Paul McCartney. No matter how they’d respond, I’d always quip “We would have been in trouble if I would have had to remind you that he was in band before WINGS. We … Read more
There’s plenty one could say about Patrick Soon-Shiong that I’ll allow would be accurate observations. Rich? Heck, yes. Has made billions in biotech and doesn’t shy away from defending how it can save the world. Civic-minded? Gotta give him that; at least he was willing to step up and bail out the Los Angeles TIMES … Read more
I hope you had a better week that I have had. It began with a surprising convergence of recurring auto payments and annual subscriptions that even after I got last week’s paycheck left me overdrawn. That often happens to me around the 30th or so of a month; this time it was the 25th. … Read more
As if #GLICKED wasn’t enough to momentarily revive the theatrical industry, along comes Disney with the first of its holiday contributions to kickstart it further. Today a much-anticipated sequel to MOANA debuts across America just in time to give those who aren’t stuck on kitchen prep a place to safely go hide and lose themselves … Read more
You’d be hard pressed to find a performer who has been as resilient and as popular over the past four decades and change as Ted Danson. No, he never did quite below the theatrical breakout his phenomenal early success as a breakout sitcom performer might have foreshadowed; he’s not and will never be John Travolta. … Read more
I’m sometimes accused by those who seem to not look past the first sentence of a musing of being somewhat misognyistic and male-biased. Far from it. I’ve been blessed through my career with the presence of some truly talented and inspiring female colleagues, subordinates and superiors. That’s all the more reason that when I encounter … Read more
Yet another connection to my past has passed away, and this one came out of nowhere. Although he was of an advanced age, there was little indication from anywhere that we were going to see the news that broke last night, and in my particular social media algorithm was right up there with the passing … Read more