The current exhibition at the Kimbell Art Museum in Ft. Worth is one of the better shows of the Impressionists that I have seen in a while. The paintings in The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago are being shown at the Kimbell while the Art Institute is going through some renovations.…
I am no Batman aficionado, having seen only two of the movies, but I thought The Dark Knight was a good film, but not the phenomenal movie many have professed it to be (I liked Iron Man better). I didn’t see Batman Begins, so I was not used to the Christian Bale Bruce Wayne and…
I was supposed to be at my second visit to “Chick Lit” last night, where the topic of discussion was to be Kabul Beauty School by Deborah Rodriguez. But instead I was at home reading the rest of the book from the third chapter. I finished it at about 11:15 pm! A busy weekend hindered…
Cavalcade is Walter Satterthwait‘s third mystery featuring the two Pinkerton detectives, Phil Beaumont and Jane Turner, following Escapade and Masquerade. With the Paris case solved, Phil and Jane head to Germany in 1923. Why Germany? It seems someone took a pot shot at a rising politician, Adolf Hitler, when he was in Berlin for a…
I watched America’s Most Wanted last night. John Walsh’s show has now led to a total of 1,021 captures. As he noted on the show, yesterday was also the 100th anniversary of the FBI. Like many government agencies, the FBI has been good at times and not so good at other times. This year is…
When it’s 100 degrees in Dallas, you just want to look at something cool and colorful from somewhere else. How about these from Italy? From near Siena . . . From Assisi . . . From San Gimingano . . . OK, back to Texas!!
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