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MUST-MISS TV: EDWIN PLAYS ALONG
When the previews of The Governor’s Wife first aired, my response was that it would be both unwatchable and unmissable, much like a train wreck. It was that way in viewing its debut on A&E. When the second 30-minute episode started right afterward, two train wrecks turned out to be too many. This is »
THE HIPPIE MENACE
The great catastrophe began on Sept. 28, 1968, when the television show The Mod Squad debuted on the ABC network. Before The Mod Squad, hippies were marginal creatures, who poured lighter fluid on electric guitars or stood on Atlanta street corners trying to sell copies of The Bird. But The Mod Squad spread the insidious »
FOREVER YOUNG: AMERICA’S OBSESSION WITH NEVER GROWING OLD
Today’s culture is so obsessed with looking and acting young it’s difficult to believe our founding fathers powdered their wigs gray in order to appear older and wiser. That’s right — being old was in. No more! From hair dyes to Botox to Viagra to wrinkle creams to a plethora of surgical procedures, the »
WENDY COLONNA’S MUSICAL AND PERSONAL ‘RESURRECTION’
By Brad Goins Wendy Colonna, one of the best known musicians of our area and of Austin as well, just came within a hair’s breadth of giving up music altogether. She was in the midst of a long, grueling tour, and discovered, as she never had before, what a toll touring can take on the »
SHOW TIME
Words can’t describe how good that felt. The first cool snap of the year just blew through, bringing much-needed relief from the uncomfortable tropical heat and pesky mosquitoes. It’s enough to get you up and moving. Now that this first front has cleared the way, successive Pacific fronts should be en route. These cool, »
LAME FASHION
Among the ensembles witnessed by a New York Times critic at the Paris Fashion Week this year were a hat with objects resembling steroid-enhanced stalks of peas; a shoe that appeared to sprout “twig-studs”; “a flexible cage covered in doughnuts of black satin”; and a pillow clutch with its own porthole. Recurring Themes »
GOVERNOR NEEDS NEW MEMBER ON BESE
he new president of the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry, Stephen Waguespack, officially stepped down from the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education before assuming his new role. He was an at-large member appointed by Gov. Bobby Jindal. “I really enjoyed it, and thought it was a very rewarding experience,” Waguespack said. Waguespack »
DEBT: GOING THROUGH THE ROOF
By the time you read this, Congress will likely have worked out a last minute compromise to raise the ceiling on the national debt. We’ve been down this road before; the debt ceiling has been raised 74 times since 1962. The most recent increase was in 2011, when an impasse between Republicans and Democrats »
OPERATION HOPE; HEATHER RYAN KELLEY AND MORE …
— Let’s all join in a big shout-out for Sulphur resident Brytanni MacNamara. MacNamara has started an organization called Operation Hope, which is designed to help stop human trafficking and slavery. This would be a newsworthy project regardless of who was doing it. But it becomes especially newsworthy when we learn that MacNamara is »
THE FORGIVENESS OF DEBORAH
Where are you Deborah? What was your story, little girl? Where are you now? _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ Deborah is on my mind, because I bullied her. I have this thing I call The Flinches. I’d be driving and my subconscious would send a bad memory to mind, »
