OPINION | PHILIP MARTIN: Baseball tonight
Want your faith in American restored? Go to a minor league baseball game.
Want your faith in American restored? Go to a minor league baseball game.
Doc's truck always wanted to go the other way -- south down Arch Street rather than north up Broadway -- when he got the text from George to meet for lunch at …
Keith O'Brien's "Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose and the Last Glory Days of Baseball," is in bookstores now. While the last part of the subhead …
Researching the character of Tom Ripley, the banal antihero at the heart of Netflix series "Ripley," suggests a thought experiment. How many murderers will you…
The news release for T Bone Burnett's "The Other Side," out today on Verve Forecast records, says it is his first solo album in nearly 20 years. As I count it,…
In 1955, Patricia Highsmith unleashed the character Tom Ripley on the world.
I try to be judicious when rerunning old columns; not only because imposter syndrome requires me to try to provide value for my paycheck, but because, as slow …
I'm agnostic about the hiring of John Calipari as the next University of Arkansas men's basketball coach. I hope it works out. Calipari seems as capable as any…
Can you imagine your grandparents as children? Maybe you've looked at photographs or saturated Super 8 reels; certainly you have seen some of the movies around…
The pretext of Netflix series "Unlocked: A Jail Experiment" is that it is a look inside a bold experiment in American correctional science undertaken by Pulask…
Ben Hogan missed the cut in the 1957 Masters, which was the first Masters tournament to have a cut. It was the first cut he'd missed since 1939.
"It never occurred to me that one man could start to play with the faith of 50 million people--with the singlemindedness of a burglar blowing a safe."
About 15 years ago, I considered writing a piece about gun shows.
Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
A Blu-ray of Jean-Pierre Jeunet's "Amélie" arrived the other day; the film has been re-released by Sony in a steelbook edition in advance of its 23rd anniversa…
"This is a question too difficult for a mathematician. It should be asked of a philosopher."
We're watching "Manhunt," the Apple TV historical drama based on James L. Swanson's 2006 book "Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer."
EL DORADO -- All Darrin Riley really knew was that Michael Fitzgerald loved movies.
There is a story, perhaps too deliciously ironic to be true, that holds that when Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer chief Louis B. Mayer told Irving Thalberg he was planning…
University of Arkansas at Little Rock professor and prolific writer Frank Thurmond's just published first novel "Lottie Deno: A Novel of the Civil War and the …
"When he looks back, the critic sees a eunuch's shadow. Who would be a critic if he could be a writer? Who would hammer out the subtlest insight into Dostoevsk…
It is midday Thursday, and the news has been confirmed that Bryan Malinowski, executive director of Bill and Hillary National Airport/Adams Field, who was shot…
In our Western folklore, Lottie Deno is a lady gambler, the "Queen of the Pasteboards," "Mystic Maud" and "The Angel of San Antonio."
"The 'Vous" is one of my favorite documentaries to have come out over the past couple of years.
The backstory of Shreveport-based, El Dorado-reared and Canadian-born Alexander Jeffery's affecting, sometimes funny and ultimately life-affirming documentary …
I'll make an exception, if you want to save my life,
Denis Villeneuve's "Dune" movies are set about 18,000 years into the future -- that's what my friend who's really into the Frank Hebert universe tells me. (Tho…
Behavior is not hard-wired, not a genetic program that runs independent of our will. It is a process, an ongoing dialogue between our environment and that part…
In his 2008 book "Outliers," Malcolm Gladwell writes that "10,000 hours [of practice] is the magic number of greatness." He argues that if you spend 10,000 hou…
Three artists arrive in Los Angeles: a famous poet, a renowned painter of murals and an Academy Award-winning director. Each of them finds themselves stirred b…
While "The Regime" might not feel as naturalistic as Iannucci's political satires. There is a hint of Wes Anderson in the wistful symmetry of its set design, b…
I live in an affluent neighborhood bordered by a poor neighborhood that's not far from where any number of unhoused people sleep rough. You might imagine what …
There's a truck I sometimes see in the neighborhood, late model, white, nondescript but for its bumper stickers which identify the driver as a man of strong, r…
Tommy Orange's "Wandering Stars" brings back characters from his first book and reaches back to the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864.
Kyle Gass had an idea that might have made the 2006 cult stoner rock 'n' roll epic "Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny" even better.
I have an interesting relationship with Alexander Payne's 2004 film "Sideways," which I recently screened for my LifeQuest class. A few years before the movie …
Around 9 p.m. Feb. 27, 1933, pedestrians near the Reichstag, Germany's parliamentary building in Berlin, heard the sound of glass breaking. About 20 minutes la…
"All literature is gossip"
"Though a better likeness of him were shown to us, we should reject it; for the only idea that we now have of George Washington is associated with Stuart's Was…
A couple of Saturday mornings ago, after I got home from running some errands, Karen asked me if I'd heard Scott Simon's essay on NPR that morning.
Not too long ago, I was introduced to an adolescent relative of a friend as "the guy who writes the movie reviews -- and other stuff -- for the newspaper." The…
I have seen all the Oscar-nominated short films, which will hit theaters Friday... This is the only theatrical opportunity for audiences to see all the shorts …
Dan Bern is playing Fayetteville on Sunday, at the Folk School on the Square. Columnist and editor Phil Martin will be opening for Bern with short set of his o…
Around 30 years ago there was a school of thought that humankind had arrived at, in Francis Fukuyama's notable phrase, "the end of history." With the ascendanc…