Month: August 2025

The forecast wasn’t exactly a complicated one, but Nik Bonitto nailed it all the same. He did the equivalent of putting your finger in your mouth briefly and then holding it up…

All photos courtesy of the author. The middle of nowhere, a hole-in-the-wall, flyover counties—even the U.S. Census Bureau defines rurality as a type of absence: “all areas not classified as urban.” An…

Pittsburgh is home to the “Immaculate Reception,” but there were no miracle endings for the Rockies on Friday night. The Pirates blanked them 9-0 at PNC Park, pounding starting right-hander Antonio Senzatela,…

Photograph by David Blakeman. It was about an hour before rider check-in when I realized I didn’t have a cup. This was a problem because my old buddy Joshua was fond of…

Alex Palczewski knows the saying’s a bit crude. The message behind it, though, is critical to his process. The third-year Broncos offensive lineman spent six years at the University of Illinois, and…

Photograph courtesy of Devon Brody. Friday, May 2, 4 P.M. It’s been a while since I visited the household that my Sim shares with Rian, the Sim I made for my partner,…

Yapi hour came right on time. Facing an uphill battle for a playoff berth with nine games to go, Colorado Rapids forward Darren Yapi put his team on his back. With his…

Sean Combs in 2010. Photograph by John Seb Barber, via Wikimedia Commons. Licensed under CC BY 2.0. A Great Villain Is a Great American Prisons are American tourist attractions, and criminals who…

LOS ANGELES — Loni Anderson, who played a struggling radio station’s empowered receptionist on the hit TV comedy “WKRP in Cincinnati,” died Sunday, just days before her 80th birthday. Anderson died at…

Mozarowsky in Beatriz (1976), directed by Gonzalo Suárez. For centuries, philosophers, theologians, and poets have pursued the meaning of life. Is there one, and, if so, what is it? Spirituality? Religion? Ask…