The 2026 NCAA Basketball tourney brings first-day shockers and Cinderellas. Who will hit the Big Dance floor this year? Joe Karbousky predicts.
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Proudly American in Milan
Journalist Susie Rom paints a lovely portrait of Milan, and its recent Winter Olympics, from the POV of a Media Production student at the U of Florida.
Advice from the oracle’s mouth
Annals of Advice: Uncle Pat Agonistes is the “Oracle of the Ferry Building.” He is a fixture of some renown [...]
Olympic melodies moved me
With the Paralympic Winter Games in full swing and the Olympics just concluded, I should be writing about ski jumping, [...]
Review: Cultish
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell explores the linguistic capacities and repercussions of cult group ideologies through a [...]
The rule of rogues
Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor. [...]
Epstein and bunga-bunga world
Am I alone in remembering that Italy already gave us a preview of the Epstein scandal? Remember former Italian Prime [...]
Film: “Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere”
Dramatizing the life of famous musicians has become a Hollywood staple. Biopics about Ray Charles (2004), Freddie Mercury (2018), Elton [...]
Loulou remembers
We're on the third floor here in Rome and I think I have vertigo. Mama held me up to the [...]
Why Minnesota?
The unspoken question lurking beneath the raging conflict over ICE in Minnesota is this: Why here and not somewhere else? [...]
The denial of death
Mortality and death were not acceptable topics of discussion in the household of my elementary-school years. Had Bosch or Bruegel [...]
Film: “Marty Supreme”
Could this film have been 98 minutes instead of 150? Yes. Was it incredibly overstimulating? Yes. Seeing it in the [...]