Half-assed Halftime: Who let the doggs in?
This column is for non-sports fans who would like some enlightenment and hopefully humor without being sports fanatics. It is perhaps premature to start bitching about the treat we will […]
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A Shared Journey
September 13, 2025 - March 5, 2026This Is a Thing, Recent Gifts to Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, 2020–2025
September 14, 2025 - March 1, 2026The Court: Art in Play
September 24, 2025 - April 26, 2026The Flower, The Labor, and The Sea
September 27, 2025 - June 28, 2026
Patriot Games: An incomplete pass of the baton
This column is for non-sports fans who would like some enlightenment and hopefully humor without being sports fanatics. “Who needs Tom Brady? We’ve got Cam Newton!” Trust me, those are […]
On the Ball and Off the Wall: Tokyo Olympics — Down and Dirty (and Deadly?)
This column is for non-sports fans who would like some enlightenment and hopefully humor beyond being sports fanatics. Anybody want to buy 160,000 condoms, cheap? If so, contact the International […]
On the Ball and Off the Wall: The bar exam
My guess is sports bars took it in the teeth with the COVID restrictions, but luckily most of the restraints on businesses were softened at a good time for sports […]
On the Ball and Off the Wall
This column is for non-sports fans who would like some enlightenment and hopefully humor beyond being sports fanatics. Soul on Ice This is definitely the time of year for casual […]
On the Ball and Off the Wall: Noise Pollution: The most annoying illusion in sports
This column is for non-sports fans who would like some enlightenment and hopefully humor beyond being sports fanatics. Vuvuzelas! No, that doesn’t mean go eff yourself in Afrikaans. But it […]
On the Ball and Off the Wall: The name game
This column is for non-sports fans who would like some enlightenment and hopefully humor beyond being sports fanatics. Years ago, OTB&OTW did a name game of the weirdest names in […]
Impact! Rudy Cheeks is the inaugural winner of Motif’s lifetime achievement award
You wouldn’t think there were many teenagers living in Pawtucket in the late 1960s who were heavily into John Coltrane, Thelonius Monk and Bob Dylan. But then again, Rudy Cheeks […]
Wind Power: It “Blowed Up Good”
Wind energy is all it’s blown up to be. States like Texas and Oklahoma know wind to be a viable and powerful source of renewable energy, and have been […]
Time to Do Something
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. — Edmund Burke, philosopher and politician, and a big fan of the American Revolution, 1729-1797. […]