Lunchtime at the Silver Creek Corral

This was never an issue in the original run of “Doctor Who” — the on-screen mating of the Doctor (newly announced Doctor #11 Matt Smith) and Rose Tyler. From “Secret Diary of a Call Girl”  [more...]

Heard tonight on CBC’s As It Happens: The Avon and Somerset Constabulary in the UK has posted actual calls to 999 (the British equivalent to 991) as a primer on when not to call the emergency number. Among the  [more...]

I was laughing and crying at the same time last night when Marc Shaiman and his partner Scott Wittmann won the Tony award for “Hairspray.” Their exuberance at winning was more than matched by their display  [more...]