J.B. Spins

She drinks Coca-Cola and uses a Statue of Liberty cigarette lighter. Obviously, Boryana’s heart is not in Bulgaria’s glorious effort to b...

Those who can’t do, teach. And those who can’t teach, teach at public schools. So then, what are the chances of a misfit Ft. Chicken Elem...

They are extreme professions, but you will not see reality shows about them on the History Channel. The E! Channel, maybe. Neither protag...

It only takes one family to launch a feud. By the same token, an emotionally damaged drifter hopes it will only take one family member to...

He was the world’s best known arms dealer, who shot more selfie footage of himself in the wrong places at the wrong times than a punky sk...

Whenever we see a picturesque Irish village with a curmudgeonly priest we are conditioned to automatically think quaint little comedy—the...

In 1994, Siskel & Ebert helped launch Hoop Dreams towards its Sundance success with an unprecedented early review that aired during t...

Something about the Minnesota accent must get lost when translated into Japanese, at least judging from one unhappy office worker’s stran...

Teenagers and zombies both have bad skin and smell like feet.  However, the similarities end with the risen dead’s affinity for smooth ja...

A good conversation should be like jazz: a little call and response, plenty of riffing, and everyone gets a chance to make their solo sta...

For most baseball fans, Dock Ellis is best known as the man who won the 1976 AL Comeback Player of the Year and helped pitch the New York...

Rama’s last mission was an off-the-books frontal assault. He was one of the few survivors. This time, he will use stealth and deception. ...

Jazz musicians have families like anybody else.  Some even produce musical dynasties, like the Marsalises and the O’Farrills. For many th...

They know the blues in Memphis. One star-in-the-making also happens to be particularly good at giving the blues. In fact, the blues are d...

That log cabin business was no joke.  Abraham Lincoln’s formative years put the “hard” in hardscrabble. Yet, they shaped him into the com...

It turns out that old “fight fire with fire” idiom also applies to zombie uprisings.  The National Socialist zombies are back and they ar...

Presumably, this is not what Al Gore had in mind when he invented the internet. A Jakarta journalist obsessed with the death videos poste...

In Texas, they do not need “stand your ground laws.” Instead, they apply the “did he have it coming” standard.  As a result, not too many...

In the provincial Iranian foothills, an astronomy club sets up a portable telescope outside a skeletal observatory, abandoned halfway thr...