Families have been ranching on the lush green pastures of Point Reyes, a peninsula that juts into the Pacific Ocean about 30 miles north of San Francisco, since before California was a state. But no more. Thanks to a lawsuit filed by environmental extremists, and a settlement agreed to by the Biden administration, the land […]
In Top Gun: Maverick, Tom Cruise’s character must train a team of hotshot pilots to take out a facility in an unnamed country with snow-covered mountains. Were they training for a mission in Switzerland? Hollywood was so wary of having any villains identified in this one that pilots from the generic foreign adversary were literally […]
Marcus Freeman coaches the Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team. Last Thursday, he guided his team to a thrilling victory in the college football Orange Bowl over Penn State University. After the game, Freeman and his team celebrated and received the traditional Orange Bowl trophy. During the trophy ceremony, Freeman was interviewed by sportscaster Molly […]
Released Nov. 24, 1956, the movie Giant was a blockbuster hit. It earned $35 million in ticket sales during its original studio release as well as $12 million in rentals in the United States and Canada alone. It won several Academy Awards including best motion picture, best director, and best actor. James Dean, the star, […]
The most classic golf movies — think Caddyshack, Happy Gilmore, or Tin Cup — all play off the same tension, which is that golf culture, quite apart from the mechanics of the actual game, is fundamentally stuffy. The joke of all of those movies is to envision the preposterous, nearly unimaginable reality of golf that’s […]
People have lost their homes and family members. Rebuilding will take time and resources. Yet, the crisis is largely out of the news. No, it’s not the Los Angeles fires. We’re talking about the aftermath of Hurricane Helene in North Carolina. Hurricane Helene hit North Carolina in September, and residents have been picking up the […]
It is hard not to view the latest film by Robert Eggers (The Witch, The Northman) as intentionally correcting the perplexity Timothy Garton Ash writes about in his Stasi-haunted memoir, The File: “If only I had met, on this search, a single clearly evil person.” Being so understanding that one cannot understand so much as […]
Among all creatures with the capacity to be cartoonified, the canine can express the most while saying the least. That Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Porky Pig speak with such verbosity is arguably a sign of the relative inexpressiveness of rabbits, ducks, and pigs. By contrast, the great animated dogs can communicate empathy, amusement, contempt, […]
A popular New Yorker cartoon published around the time of the first Trump election features an angry-looking man on a plane saying, “These smug pilots have lost touch with regular passengers like us. Who thinks I should fly the plane?” Drawing the obvious analogy between the plane and the country, the cartoon is in fact […]
President Biden on Friday announced he would commute the sentences of nearly 2,500 people convicted of non-violent drug offenses as one of his last major moves just days before leaving office. Biden said the individuals receiving commutations are “serving disproportionately long sentences compared to the sentences they would receive today under current law, policy, and...