Peter Tonguette

1 week ago | theamericanconservative.com | Peter Tonguette

Culture The Highlights Habit Politics or sports—we’re all here for the exciting moments. Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... As a watcher of live sporting events, I plead guilty to preferring the miracle finish to the long slog that precedes the miracle finish. I was reminded of my inexcusable inattentiveness on Monday evening, when the Florida Gators played the Houston Cougars in the NCAA men’s basketball championship.

1 week ago | columbusmonthly.com | Peter Tonguette

Central Ohio radio veteran Jennifer Hambrick keeps a full schedule.  For her day job, Hambrick is the midday host on WOSU Classical 101, where she introduces local lovers of classical music to masterpieces by Beethoven, Bach and all the rest. Also a broadcast producer at WOSU, Hambrick blogs regularly on arts topics.  Hambrick finds time for poetry, too— her poetry.  Connect with the Columbus you don't know.Subscribe to Columbus Monthly's weekly Top Reads newsletter.

1 week ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Peter Tonguette

Val Kilmer was a movie star who perceived something lacking in the business of being a movie star. Although he had the countenance of a leading man and was born with a name that, though authentic, sounds almost made-up in the manner of, say, Rock Hudson, Kilmer consistently resisted and rejected the machinations of modern show business.

1 week ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Peter Tonguette

“I think it would be fun to run a newspaper,” said Charles Foster Kane. But in the telling of Graydon Carter, there was no enterprise more engaging, stimulating, or fun than running a glossy, well-subsidized general-interest magazine at the turn of the millennium.

2 weeks ago | cinemontage.org | Peter Tonguette

By Peter TonguetteChaos, commotion, contention, and a whole lot of comedy converged on the night of October 11, 1975. That night, NBC broadcast a sketch comedy program that boasted a cast of boundary-pushing, little-known eccentrics, multiple musical acts, one famous but unhappy host, the controversial presence of the Muppets, and language, subject matter, and innuendo that tiptoed over the line of what was decent (or, at least, what the network was willing to air).