Joan Bauer

Aug 26, 2024 | catholicworldreport.com | Joan Bauer |George Weigel

(Image: Wiseblood Books / www.wisebloodbooks.com)Some ten years ago, I was an Irish dance mom. Our girls had the wigs, the dresses, the spray tans; we traveled all over the Midwest for competitions. I used to tell them that if I ever had dementia, they could just play me “Kilkenny Races” and I’d be back. That music lives deep in my bones.

Jul 29, 2024 | catholicworldreport.com | Joan Bauer |Michael Miller

The Crown of Liberty is a Crown of ThornsKaren Ullo’s novel, which is dedicated to the Holy September Martyrs, about the French Revolution and its aftermath beautifully immerses the reader in a period of great political and spiritual upheaval. (Images: Chrism Press / chrismpress.com)Early in Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel’s 2009 Booker Prize-winning novel of Tudor England, a young Thomas Cromwell is made to witness the gleeful burning of an accused heretic.

Jul 12, 2024 | 1065thelake.iheart.com | Joan Bauer |Carmen Angelo

Actors: Bill Cosby is 86 (“The Cosby Show,” “I Spy”) Anna Friel is 47 (“Timeline,” “Pushing Daisies”) Topher Grace is 45 (“That 70s Show,” “Spider Man 3”) Steve Howey is 46 (“Reba,” “Shameless”) Cheryl Ladd is 72 (“Charlie’s Angels,” “Poison Ivy”) Michelle Rodriguez is 45 (“The Fast and the Furious” series, “Avatar”) Phoebe Tonkin is 34 (“Tomorrow, When the War Began,” “Vampire Diaries”) The late Charlie Murphy (1959 – 2017)…he would have been 64 (“Night at the Museum,” “Chappelle’s Show”)...

Oct 6, 2023 | post-gazette.com | Joan Bauer

Reflecting on the many important roles the arts play in a civilization, novelist Malcolm Bradbury once posited, “Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.”There’s also a comfort to be found in this level of specificity, one that gets applied by Pittsburgh poet Joan E.

Jul 12, 2023 | wmms.iheart.com | Joan Bauer |Carmen Angelo |Corey Rotic

Actors: Bill Cosby is 86 (“The Cosby Show,” “I Spy”) Anna Friel is 47 (“Timeline,” “Pushing Daisies”) Topher Grace is 45 (“That 70s Show,” “Spider Man 3”) Steve Howey is 46 (“Reba,” “Shameless”) Cheryl Ladd is 72 (“Charlie’s Angels,” “Poison Ivy”) Michelle Rodriguez is 45 (“The Fast and the Furious” series, “Avatar”) Phoebe Tonkin is 34 (“Tomorrow, When the War Began,” “Vampire Diaries”) The late Charlie Murphy (1959 – 2017)…he would have been 64 (“Night at the Museum,” “Chappelle’s Show”)...