Airplanes are a versatile tool in the screenwriter’s arsenal: They get characters from place to place, they can…

This week’s question comes from reader Caleb Shively:

It’s always fascinating when you can experience something through the eyes of someone who really knows or cares a…

The women who dedicate themselves to the convent give up a lot for their lifetime of service; maybe that’s why their…

Airline travel: Can’t live with it, can’t live without, at least if you have long distances to travel and don’t feel…

Tomorrow, August 5, is a special day that may be missing from calendars in a gross oversight: It’s the 30th…

Hulu has decided to taunt us yet again with the great show Selfie was never quite allowed to become, with Karen…

“Once I open the vault,” Jerry Seinfeld once said, “it ceases to be a vault.” Such quandaries do not seem to be an…

A good celebrity cameo can be the highlight of a movie—but athletes don’t always make for the most engaging actors,…

Tom Bunn, an airline captain and licensed therapist who answered a series of illuminating questions about air travel…

Imitation is considered the sincerest form of flattery, but when it comes to parody, that’s a bit more hit-or-miss.…

Even fictional people have to eat. Sometimes food reveals what we should know about a character, sometimes it’s a…

There’s very little that’s soothing about transcontinental flight. Cramped seats, noisy passengers, the knowledge…