A big hit Although Derek Jeter doesn't want his house to be seen, Austin DeFraties' costume will definitely grab people's attention. He is dressed as the Yankees captain with a privacy fence. A Yankees cap and shirt and a $2 plastic fence, and you are sure to be a hit on Halloween. ...more

October 31, 2009

The image is seared into the culture of Christmas like stockings hanging from the mantel piece or boughs of holly stretched along staircases. ...more

November 22, 2008

BLINDNESS *½ The blind literally lead the blind - to hell and back - in the pretentious, preposterous allegory "Blindness." ...more

October 2, 2008

Florida's continuing revenue shortfall - projected to be in the billions of dollars this year and next - is unprecedented. The partisan dispute over it is anything but. ...more

September 22, 2008

As the U.S. struggles with immigration policy, Americans will get a chance to see their melting-pot nation through the prism of foreign-born athletes competing in USA uniforms at the Beijing Olympics. ...more

August 3, 2008

Summer reading doesn't have to be fluff - it just has to be good. And it probably should be something you won't mind being seen with poolside at the hotel, on the beach or aboard the plane. ...more

June 15, 2008

A study published last month by a University of Chicago sociologist concluded that senior citizens make for the happiest Americans, with more socially active seniors being the happiest of them. A Highlands Today reporter went out and told several seniors and one recently-retired baby boomer about the study. Then he asked whether they were content with their lives, and what they thought of the study. ...more

May 4, 2008

Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. argued for a society in which black and white children would hold hands and strive for a better country. ...more

January 14, 2008

Much of the joy of reading an author like Gabriel Garcia Marquez is allowing yourself to become engrossed in his florid phrasing and vivid descriptions, that he's taking you to a fully realized place, and that you're succumbing, gladly. ...more

November 15, 2007

There are only two more nights of NBC's "Green Week." Are you ready to hug a tree yet? ...more

November 8, 2007