by Bill Dal Cerro | Apr 2, 2022 | Uncategorized
So was the inevitable reply of Felix Unger from Neil Simon’s The Odd Couple when responding to yet another mess created by his roommate, Oscar Madison. And so is this my reply to the annual Academy Awards ceremony, which managed to be doubly insulting to...
by John Mancini | Mar 27, 2022 | Uncategorized
In his criminal invasion of Ukraine, it appears that Vladimir Putin has underestimated Ukrainian resistance and overestimated his own Russian military. History is full of such folly. Take a war, any war, and you will find this same hubris at work. The...
by Rosario Iaconis | Mar 21, 2022 | Uncategorized
“Beware the ides of March,” said the soothsayer to Julius Caesar. Like their ancient forebear, Italian-Americans should have heeded such an augury. For on March 14, 1972, The Godfather premiered at the Loew’s State Theatre in New York. On March 24, it would open...
by Bill Dal Cerro | Mar 21, 2022 | Uncategorized
As I go to press, I read that yet another COVID variant, currently spiking in Europe and Asia, may be headed our way: DA.2, aka “Deltacron.” We can only hope that, if it does come to pass, it doesn’t lead to a major surge. In the interim, however,...
by John Mancini | Mar 20, 2022 | Uncategorized
On March 20, 1800, Italian scientist Alessandro Volta reported that he had created the Battery – a device to generate electricity from a pile of dissimilar metal discs, some salt water, and wire. Two centuries later many people believe Volta’s invention will...
by Rosario Iaconis | Mar 19, 2022 | Uncategorized
St. Patrick’s Day is both a celebration of faith and a triumph of the human spirit. In addition to his theistic mission, St. Patrick brought the gifts of classical antiquity to the Emerald Isle, enduring privation and enslavement: “So I live among...
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