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Alzheimer’s is a fatal disease with a 100% death rate.  I knew that before either of my grandmothers started losing their memories.  It has...

Ordinarily I save all opinion and pop culture pieces for I Hardly See You Anymore, but today I'm making an exception, for the pilot of t...

Gunther von Hagens' BodyWorlds exhibit is beginning its final week at the Science Museum of Virginia in downtown Richmond.  I had the...

It was probably 1996 the first time I looked out my bedroom window and down the street with the specific purpose of keeping watch for zombie...

Note: This piece is the first in a series of academic/scholarly essays about "low-brow" or seldom respected art forms. As such, ...