Make-Up of a College Mascot

As a spectator at a college football game in early September, my eyes scanned the stadium as I entered to find it filled with fans, coaches, cheerleaders, team players, the marching band, the media, and last but not least – the school’s mascot. I often wonder about who is inside […]

Celebrating Chinese New Year 2012

Celebrating Chinese New Year ‘Fu’ or Good Luck’ The ‘Fu’ or ‘Good Luck!’ Symbol is always conspicuously displayed during the Chinese New Year Period. Intriguingly, ‘Fu’ has two different meanings, depending on which way up you view it, both together mean ‘Happy New Year!’ A different character from Kung Fu […]

Evelyn Mittelman – The Kiss of Death

It’s never a good thing when a femme fatale is called the “The Kiss of Death.” Yet never has this moniker been more appropriate than in the case of Evelyn Mittelman, a little lass from the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. Little is known about Mittelman’s early life except that at […]

Remembering Lane Frost

In the summer of ’89, I was interviewed at a rodeo in Redding, California, along with an Oklahoma cowboy and a bull named ‘Red Rock.’ That would be one of his last interviews; he died at his next rodeo in Cheyenne, Wyoming on July 30. His name was Lane Frost. […]