THE FATHER LIFE

It’s time for one more lullaby
So close your sleepy eyes
And drift away on silv’ry beams
‘Til morning wakes you from your dreams

Every week, a front-page article warns us about a terrible side effect of a different medication. This can be especially frightening if you’re a parent, and your child’s medicine is suddenly on high-alert. So, what should you do when one of your child’s pills is on the news?

14 days ago I dropped my wife and daughters off at the airport. They’ll return in another 40. It’s a heck of a long time to be home alone, but not without its perks. Last year my girls were gone for two months too, and I missed them more. This time around I think it’s [...]

As 2008 approaches its halfway point, signs of life and logic seem to pop out of every nook and cranny of our ever-changing pop culture. The times find our brightest artists embracing a number of musical styles, old and new, blurring the lines between genre definitions. The only sure thing: today’s music is alive and [...]

Starring: Robert Downey, Jr., Terrence Howard, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jeff Bridges, Shaun Toub, Allison McAtee, Stacy Stas
Directed by: Jon Favreau
Marvel has done it. They have made a super hero movie, complete with astounding special effects, that makes us both cheer and revere its complicated and flawed hero. As with the Spider Man franchise, the story of [...]

For me, the “cover issue” is a rather polarizing subject. While there are, of course, many tastefully-done covers in the history of pop, there are also an equal (if not greater) number that fall flat on their faces. I began thinking of the characteristics of both tasteful and shameful covers, trying to distill them into [...]