The Grandstander

I am going to skew really old here by noting the death this week of singer Patty Andrews at the age of 94.  Before the great "girls gro...

Okay, this post is nothing more than a bold and unabashed commercial for one of my volunteer activities, the John Heinz History Center.  ...

As it did two weeks ago at the Golden Globe Awards, Ben Affleck's "Argo" was the big winner at the Screen Actors Guild Awar...

We went and saw the movie "Hyde Park on Hudson" this afternoon.  The movie stars Bill Murray - yep, Bill Murray of Saturday Nig...

The Quest for the Best Hamburger in Pittsburgh took me to the BZ Bar and Grill on the North Shore yesterday afternoon.  This is the newly op...

The newest Sports Illustrated  arrived today (John and Jim Harbaugh on the cover), and so far, it is proving to be an good issue, and I h...

So, let me tell you what Marilyn and I have been doing over the last five days. We spent much of that time - more than is probably goo...