“Whiskey Tango Foxtrot,” playing in theaters now, is a middling mess. I wanted to love it: another triumph for the fabulous Tina Fey! But the movie aimed somewhere between serious and comic and just felt odd. It was never…
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When the sliding glass doors open at Target, I stride in. I get what I need. I check out and leave, fighting the feeling that always sneaks in the door with me. Target has everything I need except my daughters. Some…
Vanderbilt does it again, bringing serious star power to Nashville through its Chancellor’s Lecture Series! The lecture is free and open to the public, and you might want to arrive on the early side this Wednesday evening, March 23d, to meet Julian Barnes, often described…
Most of what you need to know about love can be learned from Sheila E’s “The Glamorous Life.” You can do a line of cocaine or click here for a serious high. Be careful, you’ll want to watch every single performance of…
Today’s regular Bacon contributor throws Harry Potter under the bus and stakes out a daring claim about J.K. Rowling’s work. Due to the highly controversial nature of these remarks, he or she has chosen to write under a pseudonym. I’ll send…
This month, my couples book club read The Sympathizer, by Viet Thanh Nguyen, and I suppose you could call it a spy novel of the tortured soul variety. It’s the story of a communist mole for the North Vietnamese who finds himself – in a…
Be Frank With Me – out a few weeks ago and already gaining a legion of enthusiastic fans – tells the story of a single mother, her exceptional (and exceptionally difficult) son, and the babysitter who is plunked into their lives. They…
Love story, tightly plotted thriller, heartbreak hotel: you’ll be sweating bullets and may shed a few tears while reading Ariel Lawhon’s new novel, Flight of Dreams. Lawhon imagines what might have happened on the final, doomed journey of the Hindenburg before it exploded in May of 1937,…
A poem can make you pause; a poem can make you laugh, or cry; a poem can encourage you loudly or brightly – or ever so quietly – to seize the day. I love this one by Arne Weingart… * …