If anyone ever asked me what minerals can be found in granite, I could tell them the answer: quartz, mica, and feldspar. Sadly, however, no...

As a fan of the classic TV era, I’m always excited by those times when life imitates art. One of them happened a few weeks ago in Somerset,...

Nights like this were the reason videocassette recorders were invented. Those magnificent machines were still $1,000 or more back then but w...

Occasionally the classic TV era generates multiple headlines decades after its departure. Usually that mean obituaries, and there were thre...

I've been watching The Twilight Zone for as long as I’ve been watching television. But as I wrote here back in March, I’ve never owned...

Made-for-TV movies, like variety shows,  were a staple of network programming throughout the 1970s, as evidenced here by both NBC and ABC o...

About 30 years ago a book came out entitled War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches . It was a collection of stories by different authors, all...