A discussion in a recent issue of Editor and Publisher referred to ‘verbal fossils,’ references to old television shows and characters that most of today’s readers just don’t recognize. Calling Tim Geithner án Eddie Haskell’ is fun for us oldsters but what about people who never saw an episode of […]
I am in a cafe in downtown Bethlehem and I am trying to discern the story behind a guy at the adjoining table. He is wearing a shirt with a neatly cut row of holes running across the back, as if each one was deliberately punched out, about an inch […]
The day is coming to a close, and I feel peaceful and relaxed as I sit here at the Wired Gallery and Cafe in Bethlehem, PA. It’s a college town that’s full of revitalized apartments, a huge new arts and housing complex to be built at the former steel works […]
I often read book reviews…much more than the actual books. I like the way people can digest and tighten up a message that is as long and sometimes boring in a 400 page book, but works in a newspaper column or even as a little blog. One I read the […]
One maxim that’s held true over the past one hundred years is that when you build more roads, the traffic quickly catches up and fills it up, proving that traffic congestion is not solved by more road building. Yet this year something has changed that’s never happened before. For the […]
I made up the name of a contest that my friends at Airport Parking Reservations are holding. It’s a chance to take out your camera even before the trip begins by being creative with shooting the parking lot, your parking driver, and the friendly people behind the counters. They’re giving […]
It’s a glorious day to sit on the back patio and what better to read than the weekend WSJ? Here I found out about the prophet Mohammed’s career as a pirate, and how today’s Somali pirates are carrying on a long Islamic tradition. Stephen Prothero writes that when Mohammed and […]
It was, as some people say, The Bomb! Love Bomb rocked out last night at the Route 63 Roadhouse, that funky music and dancing shack right next to State Highway 63 in Millers Falls. I didn’t know if I’d have much gas left after a few Northampton Pale Ales at […]
Frank Moro Jr. has left this green earth. I didn’t know anything about his illness, I just remember his smiling face, whenever I’d come in with car problems. Frank was one of the first and friendliest people I met when I moved to town in 1990. He ran Fisher’s Garage, […]
From local news from abc40, By Eric Fisher HOLYOKE, Mass. (abc40) — Technology is everywhere, but once you’re done with it, what do you do? In Massachusetts, computers are not allowed in landfills due to their toxic components. But a Holyoke company is offering a way for people to recycle […]
Hey DeWolf, don’t let the door hit you on the way out! Chris DeWolf was infamous, in my view, when he declared that he’d prefer a profit to 300 pageviews. He said he’d give up all of those eyeballs to just make a darn bit of money. And abandoning your […]
We discovered a cozy hideaway when we attended a Holyoke Chamber function below the Waterfront on Main St. in the city’s Springdale neighborhood last night. Both of us had been to the big bar upstairs before but never to their much cozier little bar called the Bungalow, located on a […]