If the premiere is any indication, season 3 of Chicago Med is going to need a high-powered heart monitor, as the show appears to be ramping up the romance. Not that we’re complaining. First (well, actually, last in the episode, but first in our minds), Will Halstead (Nick Gehlfuss) and Natalie Manning (Torrey DeVitto) finally shared a kiss two full seasons in the making after she revealed she’d taken a three-month sabbatical just to figure out how she felt about him. Read More...
In October 1988, the morning after the prestigious Country Music Association awards, a glum-faced George Strait sat slumped in his chair in a Nashville pancake house looking like someone who’d lost the national lottery by one number. Randy Travis had just topped him as the CMA’s Male Vocalist of the Year for the second year in a row, and Hank Williams Jr. had again taken home the top Entertainer of the Year trophy. Read More...
I celebrated Christmas a day early last night. Not by gathering round a tree, exchanging gifts, or singing carols, though. As a secular Jew with no attachment to Christmas as such, my chosen rituals at this time of year are slightly different: namely, dinner at a Chinese restaurant followed by an evening at the movie theater. For many American Jews, Chinese-food-and-movies is an annual Dec. 25 (or Dec. 24) tradition. It’s not exactly a holiday, but rather an optional, informal fun-having event that takes place at the same time as billions of other people are observing a holiday. Read More...
