Dear Marilyn, I have an issue with a close friend. He is in the Navy. He was recently deployed, and will be gone for a year. We have known each other since […]
Dear Mari: Should she wait a year for him?
“Henry IV” has modern parallels at SOC
By Thom deMartino An embattled, bombastic, newly-minted leader, facing revolt from within and without, as some his earliest and truest supporters turn on him, in a conflict threatening to blossom into civil […]
“Wind River” a mystery with a difference
By Jim Tortolano Most murder mysteries in movies seem to occur in urban areas with lots of chases down grungy alleys and under the glare of artificial light, often with a pretty […]
Retorts: Wielding words as weapons
The events in Charlottesville, Virginia are still fresh in our minds and emotions are running high. A fear of rising escalation of anger, of steeper polarization seems to be taking hold. […]
Dear Mari: Should you do it yourself?
Dear Marilyn, I would like some advice. Do you think it is best to do things yourself, or to pay others to do them for you? For example, when the oil in […]
MM Coach: Rams, Bolts are starting slow
Week One of the NFL pre-season is in the books and neither “local” team had a very impressive 2017 debut. The Rams won a sloppy 13-10 game over the Dallas Cowboys and […]
Good look at a great movie: “Casablanca”
By Jim Tortolano When I was teaching a college mass communications course just a few years ago, I used to show my students a 1942 black-and-white dinosaur of a film they claimed […]
Retorts: It’s one year for the OC Tribune
“Journalism,” Matthew Arnold said, “is literature in a hurry.” I can remember in my youth scrambling to write articles to meet some impending daily deadline, peering desperately at increasingly obscure notes, feeling […]
Caught in the middle of divorced folks
Dear Marilyn, My parents have been divorced for almost eleven years. Neither one of them has been dating anyone else since that time. Recently, however, my mom has met a guy and has […]
“Dark Tower” film isn’t the book, but …
By Jim Tortolano If you read the Stephen King novel “The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger” you may be disappointed in the new film “The Dark Tower,” but only in the sense that […]
