Author Archives: Kevin

My summer reading list

Following in the footsteps of President Obama, I’ve decided to release my own summer reading list. Or at least, the cream of the crop; I won’t bore you with the whole roster. “The Given Day,” Dennis Lehane: I was kind … Continue reading

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The L-word

We’ve all grossly mangled song lyrics, right? Of course we have. My friend Patrick spent years believing ELO’s “Evil Woman” was actually called “He Is A Woman,”while my mother-in-law went the other way, translating Aerosmith’s “Dude (Looks Like A Lady)” … Continue reading

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Re-start your engines!

So Rise of the Planet of the Apes did pretty well this weekend, nabbing the No. 1 slot at the box office and raking in an estimated $54 million as of this writing. I haven’t seen it yet, but I … Continue reading

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Less than meets the eye: Why the Transformers movies are the work of the devil

I am a child of the ’80s, and thus a fan of ’80s toys, comics and cartoons. I was a huge G.I. Joe geek well past the age when I should have been embarrassed to be caught admiring the latest … Continue reading

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Just do it

When you’re in your early forties (what’s that? I don’t look it? Oh, thanks! You’re so sweet) and you end up spending a couple of weeks sleeping in the same house you grew up in, and you encounter people you … Continue reading

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How I spent my spring break

Dear readers: Forgive the long gap between posts: It’s been a really eventful couple of months, with lots of things to write about but, conversely, no time to write about it. Okay, that’s not technically true: as a newly minted … Continue reading

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Saying goodbye

A little bit of housekeeping today: Since there’s no digital copy of it elsewhere on the Internet, posted below is my very last column as Editor in Chief of The Sunday Paper, which ran in its current and final issue, … Continue reading

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Ch-ch-changes

Change is in the air: I woke up this morning without anywhere to be, unemployed for the first time in almost seven years. I got up and got dressed, just as I always do, had breakfast, grabbed the morning paper, … Continue reading

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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame gets it right

I don’t usually pay much attention to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The whole idea just seems absurd, frankly. When I was a teenager staring up at pictures of KISS, Def Leppard and Judas Priest, I never once … Continue reading

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A life lesson learned over beignets

We’re programmed to rage against the dying of the light. You can see it in the older man quietly appreciating a lithe young woman old enough to be his granddaughter because his primal coding to procreate doesn’t come with an … Continue reading

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