Was that Tim Russert on Meet the Press yesterday Instead of the usual offering of gotcha questions and decades-old quotes all designed to put the interviewer s prey into a meltdown Russert asked thoughtful persistent questions of Sen Barack Obama and even gave him sufficient time to answer

I have just returned from seeing the rock group Rush perform a more than three-hour concert in Concord California thus marking at least the dozenth time maybe closer to 15th or 20th that I ve seen them live since my first Rush show around 1986 After spending the evening with so many for wh

Nobody likes paying the exorbitant price at the pump and both John McCain and Hillary Clinton are trying to cash-in politically on Americans cash-out experience when they fill up They have proposed a tax holiday from the federal gas tax for the summer Clinton offers a windfall profits tax on oi

This week on our podcast the playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis author of the The Last Days of Judas Iscariot discusses his new play The Little Flower of East Orange Guirgis talks about moments of grace in his life and the writers who have inspired him Listen here Little Flower starri

Yes Virginia there is a Republican candidate Amidst all the press coverage of Barack Obama s crazy pastor and Hillary Clinton s craven gas tax holiday you can be forgiven for forgetting that John McCain is running for president too But his campaign is taking shape and doing so in ways that

Up until maybe ten years ago it didn t occur to me what kind of bleeding the woman with the hemorrhage told of in Mark 5 and Luke 8 was actually experiencing My unexamined mental image was of a woman with drops of blood oozing from random pores who somehow did not bleed to death Then I heard