the spastic starfish

Anyone who has ever been to the opera knows that it can be funny. Some of the plots are so far-fetched, it's ridiculous. My favorites ar...

Happy 2013. I know I've been MIA for a while, but I'm going to try and be better about posting here this year.  It's hard to fig...

I am totally unathletic. Do you see that tree stump over there? It is more athletic than I am. When I was a kid, I took gymnastics classes a...

So... when I was in New York last month, I saw Ms. Patti LuPone at 54 Below. More on this later, I promise. When we arrived at the club, the...

Like Midnight in Paris but without what's-his-name-Wilson and all of the French people. It doesn't have the same whimsical spirit ...

Not as much fun as I'd been led to believe. Rather a disappointment.

Went to see Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter last night. It was...well, yeah. Don't get me wrong - I read the book, and I enjoyed it v...

When I was in New York, as I mentioned, I went shopping. I love shopping. But I tried to go places that I can't go to here in Chicago. I...

So I was in New York a few weeks ago - the first time I've been back since that ill-fated trip I took a few years ago in November (okay,...

so if you're on an empty street and you hear the tapping of high heeled feet or you hear a heart like a phantom beat or the scream o...

Wasn't summer better when we were kids? School was over, so there was a feeling of accomplishment like, yes! I've finished my freshm...

Some of us have scheduled themselves two big back to back meetings tomorrow. Wouldn't it be nice to have some help? Maybe a cup of coffe...