When I was a poor twentysomething writer in Chicago in the ’90s, I didn’t go to church. I instead worshipped, every…
In 1982, 18 students at Garfield High School in East Los Angeles passed the Advanced Placement Calculus test, which was…
There are certain milestones in a parent’s life. Introducing your child to solid food. Moving them from the crib to the…
When I was a kid, my favorite toy was a portable record player, which kicked off my lifelong love of music (and vinyl).…
Does anyone who saw The Secret Of NIMH as a child not associate it with being creepy? Much like The Last Unicorn,…
Now that she’s nearing the end of fourth grade, my daughter has become one of those bespectacled, bookworm types who…
I hate Austin Powers. I don’t mean Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery, a movie I saw shortly after it debuted…
There was always something that irked me about My Girl. Even as a 10-year-old, I found the 1991 film’s 11-year-old…
I was excited to try the original Tomb Raider again for this feature, but I didn’t enjoy it nearly as much as I thought…
“It was a small town by a small river and a small lake in a small northern part of a Midwest state.” The opening line…
In 1992, the second season of Salute Your Shorts debuted and I felt betrayed. Michael (Erik MacArthur), the angel-faced…
Like most kids, I was drawn to Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith’s The Stinky Cheese Man And Other Fairly Stupid Tales by its…
Usually when I tell a fellow Doctor Who fan that my first real foray into the fandom was the 1996 TV movie, I get a…
When I was in fifth grade, my school’s teachers went on strike for a couple of months. Rather than send all us kids…
Growing up in a house where reading ruled supreme, finding time to squeeze in the all-American activity of TV watching…
The story is part of family lore, so the fine details are buried in the sands of time. But I know this: It was…
It says something impressive and worrying when a young Helen Hunt, wearing a coonskin cap while playing a teenage…
When I reviewed Mark Leyner’s Gone With The Mind earlier this year, there was an interesting theme that kept popping up…
Growing up, I loved Lynne Reid Banks’ The Indian In The Cupboard series, because of what I viewed as its analytical…
Who’s ready for some dick jokes? Spaceballs is remembered as a silly send-up of Star Wars, Mel Brooks’ goofball ode to…