John Edwards Affair Love Child Scandal and/or Cover-up News: * Swingers in the Edwards’ Cover-up? * That Might Explain Rielle Hunter, Andrew and Cheri Young Living Arrangements * John Edwards as Rock Star * Rielle Hunter to Produce Hollywood Movie? * Movie Used as Money Conduit or Gag? * John Edwards Has the Best of [...]

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“Don’t look back, it won’t do any good / Don’t look ahead, you’ll just be misunderstood” So says Donavon Frankenreiter in the opening seconds of the first song (“Life, Love, & Laughter”) on his new album of Jack Johnson-lite surf music Pass It Around. It’s the kind of album that you want to love for the [...]

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The world of musical composition for films is all but dominated by men. But since scoring Privileged - a small BBC film starring a then-unknown Hugh Grant – in 1982, composer Rachel Portman has been steadily working her craft, and working her way into bigger – and better – films. In 1996 she became the first female [...]

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In distant or even not so distant future, the United States of America no longer exists. Instead, after some sort of ecological disaster, civilization collapsed and out of the chaos and the battle for survival, rose the nation of Panem, with a Capital and thirteen encircling districts. There was a time of peace and prosperity [...]

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Called “The Rock of Chickamauga” for holding the center of the Union line in that Civil War battle, and prevention a defeat from dissolving into a disastrous rout, George Henry Thomas was famous in his lifetime, worshipped and respected in equal parts by the officers and men that he commanded. He is still held in [...]

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“Stealing Trinity” by Ward Larsen Oceanview Publishing, Ipswich, Massachusets. ISBN: 978-1-933515-17-5 $24.95 Much more fun than a stump speech by a presidential candidate, Ward Larsen’s second thriller is set at the end of World War II and features another disturbingly sympathetic killer, Alexander Braun, a German-American sucked into the slaughter on the German side of [...]

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There you are, peacefully walking down the street, when suddenly a government paid busy body apprehends you, manhandles measures you in public, and orders you to attend weight watchers. Yes, it’s the UK National Health Service telling you how to live your life. We just walk up and speak to people. We will be looking [...]

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