By Michael Miner Roger Simon’s New House “I’d like to think my column had a fair amount of reporting in it,” Roger Simon was saying, “but it’s the first time in a long time that I’ve been a beat reporter. It’s an exciting challenge–as we say.” Not only that, it’s a steady job. Simon, whose […]
Tag: Vol. 27 No. 14
Issue of Jan. 8 – 14, 1998
Posted inArts & Culture
Fools
Fools, TinFish Theatre. The themes of comedy may be as universal as those of tragedy, but they’re often so tied to a particular time and place as to be incomprehensible elsewhere. Yet Neil Simon in this “comic fable” of a village (obviously the famous Chelm of Jewish folklore) liberated from the curse of cluelessness by […]
Posted inNews & Politics
Wonders of the World
The best movies of 1997 weren’t the stuff of Hollywood fairy tales.
Posted inNews & Politics
Death of a Salesman
porter.qxd Dear Editor: My family really enjoyed the listing for my father, LeRoy Klowden (inventor of the self-service shoe department), in your year-end “Little Deaths” section [December 26]. Sam Walton once acknowledged that the merchandising ideas he gave him were essential to the early success of Wal-Mart. He was a man of many accomplishments and […]