Doctors in the Windy City

Chicago has been the setting for two television shows set in emergency rooms.  ER and E/R. Both had multi-racial casts, unique characters arriving for medical attention, and humor as a defense mechanism to guard against emotional pain of working in a trauma situation....

Television by the Numbers

Numbers play an integral role in the titles of television programs. One Tree Hill.   Murder One.  One on One.  Stargate SG-1. Two and a Half Men. Three’s Company. Foursome. Party of Five. Six Feet Under. Seven Days. Eight Is Enough. The Nine. Just the Ten of Us....

What If Jerry Seinfeld Owned the Mets?

There’s no crying in baseball, but laughter is another story. In the afterglow of a three-game weekend sweep of the World Series Champions, St. Louis Cardinals, fans of the New York Mets woke up this morning to the news that Bill Maher is a minority owner of the Mets...