Charly is a 1968 sci-fi movie based on the 1966 novel of the same name by Daniel Keyes (which itself was based on the author’s 1958 short story “Flowers for Algernon.”) Charly Gordon is an intellectually disabled man, and Algernon is a laboratory mouse. Scientists have... Read More →

  “Summertime, and the livin’ is easy . . .” So goes the opening aria in George Gershwin’s 1935 opera Porgy and Bess. Summer is upon us now and easy it is—or is supposed to be! School is out; vacation time beckons. It is the season to put aside, as much as possible,... Read More →