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Best Halloween Festival Destinations, U.S. – 2025

Halloween October 1, 2025

Americans have a long heritage with Halloween festivities rooted in our Puritan colonial origins, our agricultural background, and the 19th Century gothic literature of Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathanial Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and...

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Trick ’r Treat (2007) — Halloween Movie Review

Film September 29, 2025

A couple returns home after a night of festivities. She hates Halloween, he’s a little more indulgent. But someone, or something, is watching. Halloween...

Halloween Horror Movie Releases, October, 2025

Movies September 24, 2025

October, 2025 offers several scary horror movies for the Halloween season. “Bone Lake”, October 3 “Bone Lake” is a psychological erotic horror movie that will be...

Tribute to Sir Martin Amis and Imposter’s Syndrome

Literature September 22, 2025

The first time I read about Sir Martin Amis (1949-2023, British) was in a 1991 GQ column pitting his then current novel, “Time’s Arrow”,...

Donald Hall Poetry

Poetry September 17, 2025

Donald Hall (1928- 2018) was one of the best and most popular American contemporary poets. He was a prolific writer of poetry, literature, biography,...

What Is the Wardenclyffe Tower?

Science September 15, 2025

The Wardenclyffe Tower, also known as Tesla Tower, was an experimental wireless transmission station designed and built in the early 1900s by none other...

Favorite Movies About Writers

Literature September 10, 2025

There have been many movies made about writers and poets. Often the films are sensationalized, focused on the character’s flaws, drug or alcohol use,...

Interview With Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull—A Curious Ruminant

Music September 8, 2025

Internationally recognized singer-songwriter, flautist, multi-instrumentalist, intellectual, raconteur, and Grammy Award-winner; Ian Anderson embodies all of these titles as front man for legendary British ensemble...

Favorite Mozart

Classical Music September 3, 2025

There is a reason why Mozart is universally loved worldwide – his music is beautiful perfection, it touches the soul and uplifts our spirits...

The Carbon Solution Illusion: Why Reforestation Stands Alone

Culture September 2, 2025

We live in an age where techno solutions are paraded as the antidotes to climate and environmental issues, both real and imaged. Politicians, billionaires,...

Best Upland Bird Hunting, U.S.

Travel August 27, 2025

My Dad and I went pheasant and quail hunting together during Autumn months on country farm fields in Michigan, sometimes with a local guide...

The House of Dior’s New Innovative Summer Fashions, 2025

Style August 25, 2025

Christian Dior Fashion Designs Dior has a classic style, elegant, graceful, and timeless. 2025 brings us a whole new era in designs, recently this...

Delta Blues to Chicago Blues

Music August 20, 2025

Theodore Roosevelt Taylor, Chester Arthur Burnett, McKinley Morganfield, Hound Dog Taylor, Howlin’ Wolf, and Muddy Waters. All from the great state of Mississippi and...