When you first take out your car loan, if you have a low credit score, your interest rate will be fairly high but as you make your monthly payments on time, that consistency contributes to building your credit. What this means is that as you make your payments and your credit score rises, you start to qualify for better interest rates.
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Book Review: ‘The EQ Leader: Instilling Passion, Creating Shared Goals, and Building Meaningful Organizations through Emotional Intelligence,’ by Steven Stein, PhD
Dr. Steven Stein's illuminating book, 'The EQ Leader' explores why Emotional Intelligence is the new barometer for successful workplaces.
Read More »Theater Review: ‘HEDY! The Life and Inventions of Hedy Lamarr’ by Heather Massie
Heather Massie resurrects the screen legend to gratefully address an audience that's finally asking "the right questions" – not about Hedy Lamarr's legendary beauty, her many marriages, the sex and nudity in her controversial 1933 film Ecstasy, or her post-career arrests for shoplifting, but about her mind.
Read More »Book Review: ‘One Nation Under Baseball: How the 1960s Collided with the National Pastime’ by John Florio and Ouisie Shapiro
'One Nation Under Baseball: How the 1960s Collided with the National Pastime Collided' by John Florio and Ouisie Shapiro while a reflective and entertaining read will disappoint those looking for a sharply focused analysis of the evolution of baseball during the time.
Read More »Book Review: ‘Ballad of the Green Beret: The Life and Wars of Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler from the Vietnam War and Pop Stardom to Murder and an Unsolved, Violent Death’ by Marc Leepson
Biographer tells the story of an iconic pro-military song and its effect on the soldier who wrote it and took it to the top single in the nation
Read More »Theater Review (London): ‘Don Juan in Soho’ Starring David Tennant
David Tennant returns to the West End in Patrick Marber's contemporary take on the famous womanizer.
Read More »Music Review: Eric Bibb – ‘Migration Blues’
This album was well-conceived and well-executed. It tells stories and delivers messages we need to hear and does it with marvelous vocals and musicianship.
Read More »TV Review: ’24: Legacy’ – A Mostly Satisfying Season Concludes
Based on Hawkins’s strong performance and the show’s pedigree, Fox should give this series at least one more season to try to build its fan base and gain more viewers.
Read More »Book Review: ‘Beyond Bedlam’s Door’ by Mark Rubinstein, M.D.
'Beyond Bedlam’s Door: True Tales from the Couch & Courtroom' by Mark Rubinstein is absolutely a must read for people interested in how the brain works and how the courtroom can either protect or destroy it.
Read More »Interview with Diana Forbes, Author of ‘Mistress Suffragette’
An interview with Diana Forbes, author of 'Mistress Suffragette.' This delightful and spirited historical novel of the gilded age focuses on one woman's quest for independence, and is right with historical and period detail.
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