At 11 a.m. on the 11th day of the 11th month, make a toast to Armistice Day, the official end of World War I, a war the United States fought in for less time than President Obama and the 111th Congress have kept the fighting going in Afghanistan and Iraq. Armistice Day is a better [...]

On second thought, maybe the Beatles didn’t kill the Broadway musical. For half a century, theater folk have cursed rock and roll—including a certain diabolical quartet from Liverpool—for driving show tunes from American hearts and turntables: out went The Sound of Music, in came the sound of acid trips and fornication. [...]

On March 23, the Associated Press published a story dealing with sexual abuse within the Roman Catholic Church to little fanfare. It noted that allegations of sexual abuse involving the Catholic Church in the United States dropped in 2009, and that most of the alleged offenders “are dead, no longer in the [...]

I’m hoping you’re familiar with one of my all-time favorite movies, Father of the Bride, with Steve Martin.  I’ve watched it over and over and loved it for different reasons at different times of my life — for the gorgeous dress when I was a kid, for the groom when I was in highschool, [...]