A new meaning for the word Headquarters

Pixar will have a movie coming out next year. Now that I know about “Inside Out,” you bet I missed this company’s animation. In today’s edition of my weekly Film News blog for the Syracuse New Times site, I talk about the Cinema Blend story that reveals much about that movie. An important term is…

Take it to the (snow) bank

The plow came through our Syracuse city neighborhood of Eastwood last night. I call that good news and bad news. Yes, we live at the foot of a rather sharp grade for an urban setting — remember my Syracuse half-marathon photos of runners careening down past our house the past two winters? — so that…

Collecting coats and gloves to help children in need

It’s become a regular mission for Syracuse hip-hop artists R Source and Tyler Walton. For the fourth year in a row, R R Source and Dutch Beetz have organized their Beat the Cole for the Kids campaign. The versatile entertainment veterans ask everybody to open their hearts and look in their closets for new warm…

Do you 2 have a tale about Horrible Bosses?

As I regrouped after watching the comedy “Horrible Bosses 2” for my film blog review for the Syracuse New Times site this morning, I thought again about the bosses of my lifetime. I didn’t have to go past my first job, junior year of high school on Long Island. My friend Jim had talked his…

On Dec. 7, I’m moved to think about numbers

Of course Dec. 7 means so much to many people. Pearl Harbor. Horror. Honor. War. Bravery. All of those emotions will forever be tied to the morning of Dec. 7, 1941, when the Japanese Air Force descended upon Honolulu and destroyed the U.S. ships in the Hawaiian base. My dear wife Karen and I toured…