For Halloween I present a short and shuddery tale by master storyteller Richard Matheson. Matheson, born in 1926, died this year, and in his...

A Tourism Department photo of the alien landscape of Goblin Valley. Y ou might have seen the YouTube video showing some jerks destroyin...

Y esterday I completed the second half of a ritual I have performed each year since 1975. I climb a ladder to the roof of my suburban split-...

Years ago I found the first edition of a 1941 anthology, The Other Worlds , in a Salvation Army thrift store in California. It reprints s...

Anthony Hopkins binge-watched the five seasons of Breaking Bad , and wrote star Bryan Cranston an e-mail to tell him what he thought of t...

The Walking Dead is back for its fourth season. It began its new story arc last Sunday night, attracting a huge viewing audience, and for...

On a December day in 1966 I heard that Walt Disney had died. I thought it was the end of an era, that the Disney entertainment empire wou...

Tea party: more Benedict Arnold than Paul Revere . It’s hard not to look upon the dysfunctional mess that is Congress in 2013 as being ...

I am fascinated by this article about the filming of the movie Trader Horn from the June 1968 issue of American Heritage magazine. The mov...

As a former Mormon I found the 2012 “Mormon moment” interesting. I thought it would provide political enemies of Mitt Romney an opportunity ...

I was 16 and my brother 13 when the Beatles appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show in February 1964. We were the perfect ages to be infected by Be...

I watch Breaking Bad in a very specific way. I record it on my DVR on Sunday night, along with its sister program, Talking Bad . Sally is n...

Today I read that Sulustiano Sanchez-Blazquez of New York died at age 112. He was the oldest man in the world, or at least the oldest man wh...