Weekly Columns

The fact it was Obama, and not the other guy, who suffered stitches from last weekend’s pick-up basketball game, is almost Shakespearean in its portent. Of course the much-touted so-called

Wednesday, August 18 2010 02:30:36 PM Born in 1934, renowned portrait artist Don Bachardy, now 76, was only 18 when his 33-year relationship began in 1953 with writer Christopher Isherwood

Wednesday, August 25 2010 03:41:46 PM   Artist Don Bachardy’s Hollywood movie career was very brief, indeed. Having begun in January 1953 what would become a 33-year relationship with

The following is my column from the August 2, 2007 edition of the Falls Church News-Press (www.fcnp.com). It is a cleaned up version, so to speak, of a blog entry I posted here earlier in ths

The following is my column published in the August 30, 2007 edition of the Falls Church News-Press: With the events of this week, it’s starting to seem like the entire right wing in America

Wednesday, August 18 2010 02:30:36 PM Born in 1934, renowned portrait artist Don Bachardy, now 76, was only 18 when his 33-year relationship began in 1953 with writer Christopher Isherwood

The following is my column published in the October 4, 2007 edition of the Falls Church News-Press: IN THE NAME OF RELIGION, PART 1 By Nicholas F. Benton Admittedly, mortality is scary. Life as we

Wednesday, August 04 2010 02:18:56 PM After 23 years, Oliver Stone is back with a sequel to his prophetic, December 1987 release of “Wall Street,” the movie that has indicted the entire

Wednesday, July 28 2010 06:16:05 PM   How the mighty Washington Post, the newspaper that brought down a U.S. president by its Watergate investigations in the early 1970s, has changed. Now,

WEDNESDAY, JULY 21 2010 07:02:53 PM It looked like it could shape up to be the first major overhaul of City government operations by the new Falls Church City Council and its new mayor Nader