AMARILLO, Tex."Out on the western edge of town, right before you hit the empty prairie that runs all the way to Albuquerque, there's a big, sprawling clothing store in the Cavender's chain where they have about five long racks of "Concealed-Carry Vests and Jackets." People here value ...
PALM BEACH, Fla."Now that President-elect Trump has promised to supercharge the economy, vanquish China as a trade competitor, and make us all billionaires, you might be a little confused. You"ve never been a billionaire. You don"t know where to start. I"m here to help. First of ...
BURLINGTON, Vt."Okay, the next person who tells me he's gluten-free is gonna get kicked in the gluten. There's a restaurant here trying to sell me gluten-free enchiladas. I mean, really? STOP IT. PLEASE. ENOUGH. There's no such thing as gluten-free enchiladas. If it doesn"t have gluten ...
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BERKELEY, Calif."Berkeley is, of course, the birthplace of the Free Speech Movement, and I happened to be here the day after the election, so I got to witness the very first protest in what would become a virtual national epidemic over the next five days. But it was not the spiritual ...
CHICAGO"The death of an actor, especially a character actor, is always a profound event, because at that moment all those years spent in shabby makeup rooms pop into sharp relief, revealing rivulets of love, hate, half-love, friendship, mock friendship, commerce, broken dreams, and forgotten ...
PALM BEACH, Fla."Maybe you missed this little item, but last month Obama shut down 130 colleges in a single day. That's one-three-oh campuses in 38 states that failed to open for the fall semester even though everybody was already enrolled. Correct me if I"m wrong, but I don"t think ...
NEW YORK"Editors all over America are dealing with the thorniest ethical question of the Presidential campaign: "What is our policy on pussy?" Forty years ago, when newsrooms were still smoke-filled dens of vice and carnal excess, the answer would have been shouted from the deep ...
NEW YORK"My friend Herschell Gordon Lewis, best known as the inventor of the slasher film, died last week in Florida at the officially announced age of 90, but knowing his prickly attitude about his age and the fact that he always looked 50, I wouldn"t be surprised if the real number was ...
NEW YORK"If you study Method acting at one of the great New York studios that grew out of the Stanislavsky system, the first thing they teach you is that acting is not about speaking, it's about reacting. "Always watch the actor who is not speaking," the great Freddie Kareman used to ...
NEW YORK"I"m gonna explain this Pat McCrory thing to you. As his world crumbles around him, Pat McCrory keeps doubling down on the "Keep Our Public Bathrooms Safe" issue. Surely the man knows he's losing. So you may be wondering: Is he insane? Doesn"t he have some lobe in ...
