It's been a while since I've written about the Cotton Belt rail line, that dream of east-west mass transit through Richardson, conn...

IMDB The Martian (2015): Too far-fetched for serious drama, but mostly fun in a sciency, good way. Spoiler alert: of course he's save...

IMDB Room (2015): Woman and son locked in backyard shed for years. Horrific premise, delicately treated. Faithful to novel, if more detac...

Today's photo-of-the-day is from Chichen Itza on Mexico's Yucatan peninsula. Whereas Dzibanche is still far enough off the beaten ...

IMDB Bridge of Spies (2015): Cold War prisoner exchange. Well-done, paint-by-numbers movie. Tom Hanks in what used to be a Gregory Peck r...

It seems like it took forever, but the Richardson ISD school board finally approved a bond package to go to the voters in the May 7 electio...

IMDB The End of the Tour (2015): Five days with David Foster Wallace, brilliant, self-conscious, troubled author. All talk. Shallow. Flat...

IMDB The Propaganda Game (2015): Look inside North Korea and its brainwashed people. Can't help wondering if I'm not a little bra...

From 2015 11 13 Caribbean Cruise Today's photo-of-the-day is from deep in the forests and swampland on Mexico's Yucatan peninsula....

IMDB Inside Out (2015): Children's quest movie, all inside young girl's psyche with cartoon emotions in the lead. For kids, B+. F...