Opinion
Coffee Time: “HAPPY FATHER’S DAY TO ALL ‘REAL’ FATHERS”
Father’s Day has rolled around again. Hmmm…do I write about the importance of Dad in every kid’s life? Giving every daddy-loved adult who reads this the warm fuzzies as they relive …
Read MoreMovie Review: “Bad Boys: Ride or Die”
I’m not going to go into a lot of depth about the story in “Bad Boys: Ride or Die.” Miami detectives Mike Lowery (Will Smith) and Marcus Burnett …
Read MoreKara’s Sights & Bites: Chilled desserts are the only way to survive Summer ’24
First, the bad news: It’s hot. Even worse, the official start of summer is still days away. But things are not all gloom and doom. There are numerous recipes containing words like …
Read MoreCoffee Time: “DIVORCE IN YOUR REAR VIEW MIRROR”
You may have been racing to get out of your marriage. Couldn’t hardly wait until your signature was still wet on that divorce decree. Maybe. Maybe not. Instead, maybe you were one of those spouses who fought desperately to hold on to your marriage, but lost it anyway. But now, like it or not, a…
Read MoreMovie Review: “The Garfield Movie”
“Garfield and Friends,” based on comic strips by Jim Davis, was one of my favorite cartoons growing up. With all due respect to the show’s talented writers and other voice actors, …
Read MoreKara’s Sights & Bites: Worried about the economy? Make your own fast food/takeout favorites
Disclaimer: I’m a big supporter of restaurants. I enjoy visiting and writing about them, especially family-owned ones. And on occasion, I frequent fast food places. But as you’ve …
Read MoreCoffee Time: “LONE WOLF LARRY LIVED A LIE”
A heavy angry fist slammed down on the desk. To say the least, anyone near that room would have definitely understood that things were not going well with the owner of that fist. Wouldn’t have …
Read MoreMovie Review: “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga”
2015’s “Mad Max: Fury Road” was one of the most critically-lauded action movies not just of its year, not just of its decade, but of all time. I will forever curse “Pitch Perfect 2” for opening the same weekend and doing better at the box office, thus keeping me from reviewing…
Read MoreKara’s Sights and Bites: Dine al fresco whenever the mood strikes…and the weather allows
Memorial Day marked the official start of summer and that means it’s time to enjoy the great outdoors. An easy way to do that is to dine al fresco, or outdoors, as often as possible. By that I mean, as long as our tepid Mississippi weather allows you to eat a meal beside the pool,…
Read MoreMovie Review: IF”
My biggest complaint about writer/director/star John Krasinski’s new movie “IF”… is that it’s a movie. What I mean is that Krasinski clearly has some broad ideas for worldbuilding and there are many interesting characters in the mix, but the movie has to rush so much to stay within the “movie” format of a two-hour runtime…
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