Eat This, Not That, by David Zinczenko

David Zinczenko is the editor-in-chief of Men’s Health magazine. I first noticed his “Eat This, Not That” column in the Yahoo.com Health section. One of the major shortcomings of any diet, according to Zinczenko, is that people do not have much control over how their food is prepared when they eat out at a restaurant.  [...]

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Classical 2009

One of my favorite CDs, Classical 2009 features a variety of pieces performed by some of the biggest names in the classical and classical crossover performing world. If you are a new listener to classical music– or if you are like me and you enjoy discovering new music– you are sure to find something you [...]

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1,001 Things They Won’t Tell You: An Insider’s Guide to Spending, Saving and Living Wisely, by Jonathan Dahl

1,001 Things They Won’t Tell You dishes out the inside scoop on harmful, hidden business practices, and provides ways for consumers to protect themselves. The book comprises one hundred of the “10 Things They Won’t Tell You” articles from Smart Money magazine–now updated, expanded, and arranged into eleven categories such as “your money,” “goods [...]

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Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)

Tomorrow Never Dies  is one of my favorite James Bond films, with plenty of suspense to keep you on the edge of your seat.  Media tycoon Elliot Carver (Jonathan Pryce) has positioned his satellites to provoke a war between Great Britain and China– and his media empire is primed to reap huge financial rewards by [...]

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24

24 is one of the most exciting television shows I’ve ever seen.  It is all about a federal agent named Jack Bauer and the federal agency he works for, CTU– the Counter-Terrorism Unit. They must thwart plots involving various nuclear or biological weapons that pose a serious threat to people in the United States.
The unique format draws [...]

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Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987)

I was sad to hear that the legendary movie producer/director John Hughes passed away last month. He was most famous for his teen movies of the 1980s, including The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, but his best comic movie by far is Planes, Trains and Automobiles. It is the travel misadventure movie of [...]

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From Baghdad, With Love, by Lieutenant Colonel Jay Kopelman with Melinda Roth

I was thoroughly surprised by this heartwarming animal story set in the most unlikely of places, Fallujah, during the most intense time of the Iraq War in 2004.  Lt. Col. Jay Kopelman and the members of the First Battalion, Third Marines, known as the “Lava Dogs,”  stumble upon a puppy while clearing a house in [...]

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The Encyclopedia of Guilty Pleasures: 1001 Things You Hate to Love, by Sam Stall, Lou Harry, and Julia Spalding

Warning:  Once you  start reading this book, you will not be able to stop. You will be chuckling and laughing out loud, so reading it in the  library might not be a good idea.  This is a great collection of pop-cultural icons that we love to hate, or hate to love, including junk food (Cracker [...]

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Dogtown: New Beginnings and Dogtown: Second Chances

Anyone interested in dogs or animals in general won’t want to miss these collections of episodes of the show Dogtown, which ran originally on the National Geographic Channel.  Dogtown is a large dog-rescue facility that is a part of the Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in the beautiful canyon country of southern Utah. It has cared [...]

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The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

Anyone who enjoys a good sci-fi flick won’t want to miss this classic from the Fifties.  It has a great story about flying saucers, a giant robot and a beautiful woman (what more could you want?).  But it has lots of other stellar qualities that raise it well above the campy outer-space movies that [...]

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