Among my favorite lathe projects is a lamp. They’re not difficult, but I recommend proficiency in using a skew chisel. Turning a lamp is basically turning a spindle. I may incur the wrath of bowl turners, but I believe spindle turning requires a different skill set, and I’ll let it go at ...
“Preacher’s Hell,” and “The Last Ride of the Dirty Creek Gang,” by William W. Johnstone & J.A. Johnstone. Publication date: Feb. 24, 2026. William W. Johnstone hasn’t let being dead stop him from cranking out books. The man was a juggernaut of the mass market paperback scene in ...
"How to Make a Killing," starring Glen Powell as a working-class man who sets out to murderously reclaim his inheritance, has a clear inspiration: the great Ealing black comedy "Kind Hearts and Coronets." In that sublimely wicked 1949 film, Alec Guinness played all eight of the relatives that ...
Stella and Gerry might not have a bad marriage, but they don't have especially healthy one either. In the new film "Midwinter Break," out Friday, these two Irish empty nesters beautifully portrayed by Lesley Manville and Ciarán Hinds have become the embodiment of the words "alone together" in ...
“But, sometimes, bad stuff just happens.” *** In the not-too-distant-future of 2091, life persists. It waivers … but it persists. Despite the steady decline of the environment, the ever-roiling dysfunction of human politics, the tug of war of control, huMANity has dug his heels in and, ...
VIENNA — An expert in belly dance and its instruction will present two workshops on Sunday in Vienna. Sharp Shimmy and the Whole She-Bang and Combos Opulent will be presented by Joanna Abel of Pittsburgh from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and 1-2:30 p.m., respectively, at Fitness with Phyllis, ...
