Subject: Ralph Kramden

• Heigh Ho, It's Off to Work They Go

  Hughes brothers make pimpin' seem as benign as the cartoonish caricature of the profession

  July 13, 2000

• News Hostage

  September 16, 1999

• Cry Hard

  In a story almost too slick, Bruce Willis really gets in touch with his inner child

  July 6, 2000

• End the Innocence

  Don Henley -- Stereolab

  May 18, 2000

• Fat Husband, Cute Wife. What's Up With That?

  I guess it started with The Honeymooners. You know, sitcom family equals fat husband, cute wife.  According to Jim. King of Queens. Grounded for Life. Still Standing. Hell, even The Simpsons. And the list goes on. What do they have in common? All star a sitcom husband who is fat and schlumpy and gross and whose wife is thin, cute, and oh-so-patient with her schlumpadump hubby.So what's up with that?Slate contributor Matt Feeney once pondered this paradox, writing, "Since these pairings coul

  April 30, 2009

• R.I.P., The Sons Of Hermann Hall In The Heights

  Anyone who's driven up Heights Boulevard has noticed the Sons of Hermann hall, if only for the sign.And they wonder who the hell was Hermann, and why do his sons need such a big place?But no more. The building is on the list of places to be demolished, Swamplot reports (another Heights-ish site on the list: The Young & Restless shop on Ella), and the deed might have already gone down.No more jokes about Herman Munster.In honor of its departure, let's clear up the mystery.

  June 15, 2009