I live in a rural area in Tennessee, where Dollar General is based, and over the past 15 years or so they have aggressively pushed out into rural areas — little country crossroads that had only a gas station / convenience store now have a Dollar General. That sometimes causes a hardship for little locally-owned…

Looking it up just now, there’s the “Alcatraz East” crime museum; “Wonderworks,” in a building with an upside-down exterior; and “The Ripken Experience,” a baseball-themed attraction, along with plenty of others. And, of course, there are all of Dolly Parton’s various enterprises -- - Dollywood, The Stampede, etc.  htt…

I have not actually been inside the museum, but if I understand correctly, your ticket has the randomly-assigned name of a Titanic passenger, and then near the end of the exhibit, there’s a wall with the names of victims and survivors, and you can look up your ticket and see if your person lived or died. There are all…

Hepburn wrote a great book, “The Making of the African Queen: Or How I Went to Africa With Bogart, Bacall and Huston and Almost Lost My Mind.” It’s short, and a really fun read. I think it served as a test run for her autobiography, which came out just a few years later. Also, the Clint Eastwood movie “White Hunter,…

His part is being recast with Eric Clapton.

I’m surprised the AV Club hasn’t done anything yet about the announcement of Charlamagne Tha God’s new Comedy Central talk show, produced by fellow South Carolinian Stephen Colbert. Seems like it would  have been a newswire item.

it’s revealed that she sustained a head injury while skiing some time ago, causing her to speak even the most banal sentences at the precise level of volume and intensity that you’d employ to call people’s attention to an incoming, potentially civilization-ending meteor.

This time, instead of stars on a “Star Trek”-type TV show, the main characters will be three out-of-work silent movie cowboys, and instead of being summoned by an alien race, they’ll be summoned by the residents of a small Mexican town being threatened by a vicious bandit.

• I would’ve expected “Rule 34 of Asimov’s Cascade” to be… nuder.

“The Prisoner”’s finale was so controversial in the UK that Patrick McGoohan went into hiding for a little while.

The TV show was “Silk Stalkings.” It was a play on words, meant to be a homophone of “Silk Stockings” (MGM’s musical remake of “Ninotchka”).

As soon as I saw the original story, I thought of this from several years ago:

Andy Griffith went method for “A Face In The Crowd,” and hated the experience so much that he swore off playing that kind of character for years, which is, I guess, why he was so happy playing things like Sheriff Andy Taylor and Ben Matlock.

If you have not already, read the Rolling Stone piece from a year or two ago about Tom Petty and coffee. Petty took his coffee *very* seriously, but his home brand was ... Maxwell House, because he’d enjoyed it at a diner once. However, he had *two* commercial-grade coffeemakers installed in his kitchen and learned…

If you are at all a fan of “Mystery Science Theater 3000,” it’s worth purchasing and downloading the Rifftrax short “This Is Hormel”: https://www.rifftrax.com/this-is-hormel

The recipe was altered in 2009 with the addition of potato starch to reduce the gelatinous goo that used to surround the product and which probably took away from its appeal. 

Well, nobody’s perfect.

The spoiler warning was not just in the trailer — there’s actually a spoken warning in the end credits asking you not to reveal the ending to your friends. Not only #thanosdemandsyoursilence, but #laughtondoestoo.

If you don’t feel like you have enough whey, you can take plain yogurt and drain it through some cheesecloth or butter muslin. That, by the way, is the only difference between “Greek” yogurt and non-Greek yogurt; the Greek yogurt has been strained to remove some of the whey and give it a thicker texture. If you drain…

Right. Basically, Ted Turner bought all of MGM, and then sold off the production and distribution side of things a short time later, while holding on to the rights to all of the previous movies, so that he could use them as programming for his cable channels. So then, when Turner was bought out by (Time)Warner, those…