I’d be remiss if I didn’t offer a parting bow to “Downton Abbey,” which ended its six-season run last week with a two-hour episode that left all the main characters (all 20 of them) accounted for and, in almost every instance, happily sent off into the sunset of television paradise.  (The finale had run on […]

Jerry Montoya’s “Love and Baseball” is the kind of small play that B Street Theatre offers in the more intimate of its two stages, and that’s where it is being performed this month.  As a one-act, two-character play with limited action and not a lot of storyline, it works very well.  Simply stated, it’s a […]

Those of one party focus on policy; those of the other consist primarily of ad hominem attacks, lately emphasizing anatomical deficiencies.  This difference in the character and quality of the debates epitomizes the character and quality of the two political parties in this presidential election year.  And while the Republicans are far more entertaining, the […]

Now that the Motion Picture Academy has handed out its Oscars to the performances and films judged the best of the year, it’s my turn to put out my choices. I make no bones about my general disapproval of the Academy Awards ceremony and the choices that often defy logic, and this year’s telecast was […]