Off-Center Views

Baseball's Flowers and Skunks     More than a third of the baseball season is over. A lot can happen over the next 90+ games and, if y...

  Ike Reilly has appeared on this blog before. He’s back with Because the Angels , a blue-collar album about blue-col...

  THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB (2020) By Richard Osman Viking Press, 400 pages ★★★★ ½        Richard Osman is a ga...

  DEAR COMMITTEE MEMBERS (2014) By Julie Schumacher Doubleday, 182 pages. ★★★★★       Who’s been keeping this a...

  Do you think the street upheavals of the 1960s were bad? You ain’t seen nothing yet. It is patently obvious that th...

  GILDA (1946) Directed by Charles Vidor Columbia Pictures, 110 minutes, Not Rated ★★★★★       Gilda is an Ame...

   The first known Juneteenth happened in 1866!   Today is Juneteenth, a long overdue holiday. Anyone who disagrees w...