I recall as a young child sitting with my four older sisters and big brother in front of t...
Wayward Pines, Idaho: A place where once-original ideas are recycled for the umpteenth t...
Thirty years ago, this writer was granted an assignment to review a B. B. King concert at ...
Somewhere in what seems another lifetime, I once toiled in the agency business in the Moto...
“This film has been carbon off-set.” Thus conclude the credits of the documentary Merc...
Happy birthday to the perpetual adolescent brat! The moody, cranky, destructive little p...
The inestimable Larry Kaufmann recently made the case in this space that Bob Dylan’s Bri...
Watching the previews before the show’s debut, your writer predicted CBS’ reboot of th...
Hang out in front of a television set for as long as this writer has, and you can honestly...
It seems no one is clean in the ABC Network’s Thursday night serialized drama American ...
If there’s one defining characteristic of Vince Gilligan’s television series, it’s...
What’re you gonna do when Spock’s on hiatus? If you’re Zachary Quinto—who plays th...
The news this week has been, for worse and better, more about those who read it on-air t...
(Editor’s note: To commemorate the 60th anniversary of the publication of Russell Kirk�...
Seamus Heaney, perhaps the greatest Irish poet – and certainly the Irish poet receiving ...
My first job after graduating from college was in Detroit. Prior to graduation, my high-sc...
Few things make your writer more elated than unwrapping a new compact disc, transferring o...
Any awards program longer than a David Lean film that simultaneously left this viewer long...
The moral high ground of environmentalism seemingly was ceded by free-market proponents ...
At long last one of my favorite 1970s pop groups has found its home in a box set. If, li...
It's too bad for film critics that they don't draw an hourly wage, what with the recent sp...
Promised Land's big reveal comes in the opening credits when Image Nation Abu Dhabi is li...
Your humble writer's parents used to employ the phrase, "the height of laziness," whenever...
It’s been 35 years or so since your writer was introduced to the glorious amalgamation o...
Hollywood director Steven Spielberg has carved a wide swathe through Hollywood. The guy'...
Steven Spielberg's Lincoln provocatively presents one of America's most beloved presiden...
I'm always on the lookout for books and poetry related to Michigan, and I chanced upon S...
The short list of best American film directors will forever include Elia Kazan, whose ci...
My full review of HBO's The Newsroom can be found at The Michigan View, but here's a snipp...
If you’re a culture vulture as I am, you don’t often associate Michigan with poetry, a...
My high school alma mater is a Catholic school, and it's been gathering some national atte...
When Dexter Gordon passed away in 1990, Detroit Free Press columnist Mitch Albom penned an...
I'm sitting out a Springsteen tour for the first time since 1978's Darkness on the Edge of...
