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Saluting The Cohen Brothers Return to Comedy: Hail Caesar

Mentioning the Cohen Brothers (Blood Simple, Fargo, No Country for Old Men) and their film work usually generates one of three responses; I hate it/them, I do not understand it/them. I love it/them.

My opinion of the Cohen Brothers is the last of the three with occasional consideration for including the second statement. However, if you […]

McDonald Peak – Dawn with Five Mountain Ranges as the View

The trip to the top of McDonald Peak (10,089 ft.) in the Sawtooth Range is a 3,200 vertical foot ascent all in snow.  McDonald sits between Alturas and Pettit Lakes and look directly across the valley at Horton Peak of the White Cloud Mountain Range. The round-trip effort of 24+ hours includes a dawn […]

Great Content in Once in a Great City

David Maraniss (When Pride Still Mattered) demonstrates again why he is one of America’s best at researching and providing the narrative for a story.

His book Once in A Great City is a story about America and its greatest industrial city and their associations and direct connections from the vantage point of 1963. […]