Hoarding in the headlines

If you’ve read my Mew is for Murder, you know something about animal hoarding, aka the “crazy cat lady” syndrome. Well, now Today on MSNBC is on it, too. This story has lots of good information, and there’s also a video clip that includes a...

A kitty with movie star moxie (guest blog)

In September 2007, Anthology Film Archives, downtown Manhattan’s prestigious avant-garde repertory cinema, mourned the passing of its beloved mascot, a cat named Max.The tortie girl, who enjoyed a good game of ping pong, showed up at Anthology’s door...

crime and R&B

I write about radio for The Boston Globe, and so over the last few days I’ve witnessed a lot of schaudenfraude in the industry (along with jokes about “pay for play”) that Eliott Spitzer was going to clean up. But now that I hear that the woman at...