DAD'S ATLAS

  • Watching Super Bowl halftime shows with the kids

    I was prepping an eggplant lasagna for the Super Bowl. Lasagna always takes longer than you expect it to, so the prep pushed right through the pre-game and took up the whole first quarter. I watched the second. But once the kids saw Rihanna’s show, they wanted more music, and we never really got back…

  • Hip-hop celebrates 50th birthday at the Grammys (playlist)

    Hip-hop turns 50 this year. (Yeah, hiphop’s a middle-aged Gen Xer.) And to celebrate the milestone, the Grammys enlisted Questlove. Boy did he come thru! Questlove put together a ridiculous line-up, including LL Cool J, Missy Elliott, Busta Rhymes, and Big Boi. Playlist Here’s an Apple Music playlist with all of the songs the show…

  • Floating World Comics

    A new breed of mall rat revives Lloyd Center

    This isn’t news to the eighties babies. But in the years leading up to Kevin Smith’s 1995 film “Mallrats,” the mall was the place to be.  Shopping was a physical activity then. Even if you were penniless, window-shopping was a good way to spend an afternoon. It was more of a stroll than a shopping…