TV Eye Takes a Little Break
TV Eye takes a three week break from its daily television listings for travel. It's up to you to navigate the next few weeks of broadcast and streaming across so…
Remembering Bob Barker, 1923-2023
Sad to hear of the passing of Bob Barker, the daytime television icon, who died Saturday at 99. It was a long, great life and many of the tributes so…
TV Eye Takes a Little Break
For the first time in more than a year, this column takes a break. Not because of the pandemic or any number of worldwide crises, but because it's vacation time.…
Report from a Cruise to Alaska
That grand expanse of land taking up the northeast chunk of land of North America, frozen half the time, stretching out almost to touch Russia, is still evolving. There were…
Requiem for My Laptop
A quick farewell to my laptop, which died twice in recent weeks. First the hard drive fried, in the word of the technicians, and was replaced. And then it faltered…
Report from The Beach
Things didn’t look good from the beginning, when we needed a jump start even to inaugurate the trip to the Outer Banks. The Prius battery was so iffy that we…
Report from Blizzard Central
Two feet of snow is a lot. But it seems in my long life I've seen a few snowstorms like that. After a day of unexpected beauty, when nature makes…
The Triumph of ‘The Beach’
The last official beach day of the summer is also the last day for "The Beach," the terrifically popular installation at the National Building Museum by Snarkitecture, which I'm so…
Under the Spell of Slow TV in Norway
Took a last minute trip to Norway last week and though we spent our time in and around Oslo, it would seem like we saw the whole country. We stayed…
Notes on a Cruise
It was not my idea to go on a cruise. Instead, it was a generous offer from my mother-in-law, who was dedicating her winter to two halves of the same…