Even if you've never seen 'It's A Wonderful Life,' you're sure to appreciate Steve Murray's stage adaptation. ...more

November 27, 2009

How delightfully fitting that a Southerner, Mississippi's Eudora Welty, is so inextricably linked to the simple phrase "sense of place." ...more

March 1, 2009

Throughout history, people have been oppressed to the point of desperation. Once the pain of enduring any longer becomes severe enough, a backlash begins to brew. ...more

February 12, 2009

It was the night before Christmas and all through the house, the television sets were filled with memories of holidays past. ...more

December 24, 2008

Turn on your television this holiday season and chances are the movie "It's A Wonderful Life" will be playing on some channel. ...more

December 24, 2007

I don't much care for films that celebrate "small-town values." I always feel judged, even personally attacked, by these movies. When the restless Jenny in "Forrest Gump" leaves town and ends up an ex-junkie dying of AIDS, I read it as a threat to any woman who doesn't stay put and marry the town idiot. ...more

December 24, 2007