Category: Culture

If you’ve been reading Plugged In for a while, you might’ve noticed that I write a lot about superheroes. I don’t know why, really. Adam

The other day, as I was typing up a blog or movie review or some such, my Plugged In compatriot Adam Holz stumbles into my

It’s interesting how we sometimes forget. I had almost forgotten about today’s significance until I drove in this morning and heard about the ceremonies at

I am not a packrat. Okay, okay, my fellow Plugged In staffers might scoff at that statement, given that my cubicle is the most clutter-strewn

I never met Neil Armstrong. Honestly, I’d have a hard time recognizing him without his spacesuit on. And when he died Saturday at the age

My youngest daughter started college this week. We got a call from her last night, and she gave us the full rundown of her classes:

Back in my art school days I decided to do my hair up (when I had some) like they did it back in the 1950s,

I hated mirrors as a kid. Really hated them. When I was about 5, I heard an old-timey radio episode of The Shadow in which

We, the people, have always had an affection for those in the spotlight: the famous. Ever since the first scruffy human guy shuffled back to

“The bad news is that the Olympics are over,” fellow Plugged In critic Adam Holz proclaimed yesterday. “On the up side, Shark Week is here!”