Archive for the ‘Opinion’ Category

Break out the heavy coats: Antarctica Empire of the Penguins opens today.

ORLANDO – Standing right below a massive glass screen that offers a close up view of penguins happily swimming, Jack Hanna said he was thrilled to have been given the opportunity to be at SeaWorld Orlando for the opening of the theme park’s newest attraction – one devoted to recreating a very special part of [...]

Freelining with Mike Freeman: The hopeless urge for premature spin.

Psst. Hey, did you hear? It’s already over. Yes, you know what I’m talking about. The presidential election is over …. no, not 2012, but 2016. It’s already been decided. If there’s one way to spot a die-hard political junkie, it’s to see how much spin they generate in the days following a presidential election. [...]

Freelining with Mike Freeman: Notorious Oscar snubs.

When the 85th annual Academy Award nominations got announced, the list presented an intriguing mix of the thoroughly predictable and “What the ….” startling. As the highly anticipated biggies like “Lincoln” and “Les Miserable” were revealed to be going up against one another for the Best Picture nod, a lot more attention has since been [...]

Review: “Roman Polanski: Masters of Cinema.”

Any book written about the film director Roman Polanski offers the writer two quite irresistible options. Unlike a lot of movie directors, who may be known for their films but barely register a blip on the society pages – did anyone really know much about the private life of Alfred Hitchcock, for example? – Polanski [...]

Freelining with Mike Freeman: The sorry state of job fairs.

It seems like every time I read about the state of the economy, it’s being viewed almost entirely through the prism of politics. Last Friday, the unemployment rate for December came out, showing that 155,000 jobs got created nationally, while the jobless rate held steady at 7.8 percent. For those who think this was a [...]

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