Netflix, along with NHL Center Ice (go Red Wings!) and FuboTV (Barca! Barca! Barca!), enabled us to cut cable in 2015. That’s like $140 extra bucks in my wallet each month. For this I am thankful. Oh wait, I’m a holiday behind. We don’t give thanks now, for now we […]
Tomorrow, Wednesday November 24th is an extremely special day and not only because it is my lovely wife’s birthday. On PBS KIDS, the terrifically whip-smart new cartoon series Nature Cat finally arrives AND The Wild Kratts holiday special A Creature Christmas makes it’s debut! Now, you might be excited for […]
September is not a time for youthful Netflix viewing ’round these parts. Instead of snuggling up on cool mornings beneath a fuzzy blanket with the adorable little Roku control in their hands, my daughters are busy falling into a scholastic rhythm which includes, among other things, the restart of nightly […]
It’s quite the spectacle, seeing my two daughters play with LEGO® Star Wars™. The oldest appreciates the build the most; the process of assembly, the organized chaos inherent in such an endeavor, the thrill of creation. The younger eagerly awaits her turn to assimilate the adorable R2-D2, a stray AT-AT, […]
Nine years ago this spring, on a snowy Saturday morning, we three ducked into a suburban Philadelphia theater after a brunch with my folks. The occasion deserved a photo, and here it is, although I haven’t a clue who took it. Selfie sticks weren’t invented yet, not that I’d be […]
Project Mc² is a brand new show for girls who exist in the 21st-century’s O.M.G. L.O.L. pop culture world but do so not at the expense of their wit and smarts. Project Mc² is a show for and about confident young women who are brilliant and funny, and who aren’t […]
If I was buying stock in one TV show for kids, it’d be this one, A History of Radness. And not only because the one kid is wearing a KEXP shirt, or because Henry Rollins is in it. You know, maybe kids can still grow up to understand that bands […]
My first 8 years were spent on a slab. A rectangle of concrete with a modest square patch of green which put a slight distance between us and our quiet suburban street, the name of which I can no longer conjure. I don’t recall too much about the ranch house, […]
