There are certainly guilty pleasures in life, and Party of Five was one of mine at the tail end of college and right after. For those...

There are things to love about each of E.B. White's three classic children's novels. Charlotte's Web is an achingly poignant fable about...

Roger Zelazny is not mentioned as often as he should be when the topic of sci-fi/fantasy greats comes up. And yet he won six Hugos and...

Sometimes it's the bit players who are the most memorable. Ernie who? You remember him as the smug, curmudgeonly, absolutely hilarious...

You want a fun piece of geek sacrilege? I've never seen any of the Buffy TV show. Not a minute. I know, I'm missing out on one of the...

One of my favorite books when I was young was The Iceberg Hermit, by Arthur Roth. The protagonist first appears in The Surpassing...

Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends was a short-lived Saturday morning cartoon from 1981 to 1983, but had a huge impact on me. Much of my...

I admit to a certain feeling of kinship with Dan Brown, sharing a hometown, knowing his family, meeting him several times. Even if none...

There was a time when Chevy Chase was funny. Really funny. And if his early-80s run of Caddyshack, Spies Like Us, and Vacation was Hall...

James Clavell's weighty novel Noble House is the fourth entry in his sweeping Asian Saga (though the fifth in the timeline). A...

Yeah, I was an Archie comics guy. For all their insipid shallowness, they were a fun, quick read at a certain time in my life. Yes, they...

1776 has always been my favorite stage production. Stone and Edwards did a masterful job in adapting the epic story of how the rare...