Sam Eifling

The name of the program is “Heroes & Miracles,” and it intends to prominently showcase rescued Chilean miners. The question that arises, then, is whether getting dragged out of a hole can make a person a hero. Are the miners heroes for not going all 28 Days Later on each...

There’s a disagreement among people who bother to form opinions on such hokum about exactly what ancient civilizations predicted would occur in 2012. Forget the present-day Maya who insist that the long calendar expiring in 2012 doesn’t foretell the end of the world any more than our having a December...

Because Jeff Daniels seems to be a fundamentally decent human being, it feels gauche to mention that he’s most famous for depicting a loose-boweled, snot-streaked imbecile who trades cane blows with Jim Carrey in Dumb and Dumber. (Beware, kiddies: You never know what of your work will enthrall people and...

French artist Orlan worried about just this situation — you reading about her — last year in an interview with the Guardian. “If you were to describe me without anyone being able to see me,” she said, “they would think I am a monster.” This is a woman who has...

When your parents warned you about running away to join the circus, it wasn’t because they were afraid you’d never call home again (that was inevitable) or concerned you’d fall into a vat of psychotropic animal water and hallucinate about pink elephants on parade. No, they were afraid you’d wind...