Puddin’ Don’t is a creation of Jake Barlow, inspired by all manner of silliness, like Berkeley Breathed’s Bill the Cat, Chuck Norris Facts, The movie Machete, and the great Marty Feldman. Puddin’ Don’t can be found daily online at www.puddindont.com
HUMOR BY THE SPECTATOR, JOHN MALONEY About this time every year, I dust off a column I wrote many years ago for the paper. In fact, it appeared on July 11, 1985. Some of you weren’t even born yet! I’ve added to it from time to time and with baseball  entering the heart of the […]
BY GEORGE J. DACRE Author Evan Smith delves deeply into the Bible, and Catholic and Evangelical beliefs in this “heaven-sent comedy,” as Penguin’s artistic director Joe Brancato describes “Savannah Disputation.” Director Mark Shanahan gets the most out of a stellar cast that includes Susan Pellegrino as Mary and Tina Johnson as her sister, Margaret, both […]
BY VINCENT ABBATECOLA Back in the ‘50s, gargantuan sea-creature Godzilla made a name for himself in sci-fi cinema. An icon of movie monsters, he left devastation in his wake and battled other towering beasts, such as Mothra, Hedorah, Gigan, and even King Kong. Then, in 1998, filmmaker Roland Emmerich brought the King of the Monsters […]
The Nyack Chamber of Commerce extends its Thursday Farmers’ Market to Saturdays beginning on June 7 at 8 a.m. Nyack’s first-ever Saturday Farmers’ Market builds on a 17-year commitment to local farmers and specialty food producers, drawing crowds of shoppers to the Village every week — both outdoors in the warm months, and indoors in […]
BY GEORGE J. DACRE Mary can fly. Mary can do anything. And she does, in the person of the beautiful Lauren Blackman, in this production of the turn of the 20th Century epic that has enchanted many, many people over the years. “Mary Poppins” will enchant once more during a run at Westchester Broadway Theatre […]