A Splendid Time is Guaranteed for All: Sgt. Pepper at 50
| published June 14, 2017 |
By Kevin Robbie and R. Alan Clanton,
Thursday Review contributor
June 2017 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the release of the Beatles’ landmark album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, arguably the first and most...[read more]
Blade Runner 2049: Lower-Than-Expected Numbers
| published October 13, 2017 |
Thursday Review staff writers
Hollywood’s decade-long love affair with the sequel and the franchise faces more struggles after a less-than-stellar opening weekend for the big-budget sci-fi thriller Blade Runner 2049, a sequel...[read more]
Former Congresswoman Guilty on 18 of 22 Counts
| published May 11, 2017 |
By R. Alan Clanton,
Thursday Review editor
Former U.S. Representative Corrine Brown, who served in Congress for decades, has been found guilty on 18 of the 22 charges brought against her by...[read more]
Senate, White House Confer on North Korea in Secret Briefing
| published April 27, 2017 |
By Keith H. Roberts,
Thursday Review contributor
With tensions running high on the Korean Peninsula and along the 38th Parallel which separates North and South Korea, top White House officials requested a rare full...[read more]
Laptop & Smartphone Ban Result of Specific Intel
| published March 23, 2017 |
By Keith H. Roberts,
Thursday Review contributor
Though the FBI, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and the NSA have been careful to suggest there are no specific threats to the...[read more]
NSA Employee Indicted For Theft of Thousands of Documents
| published February 9, 2017 |
By Keith H. Roberts,
Thursday Review contributor
A contractor who worked for the super-secretive U.S. National Security Agency and for the CIA for nearly two decades may have stolen more classified information than the...[read more]
Carrie Fisher's Death Brings Star Wars
Full Circle
| published December 29, 2016 |
By R. Alan Clanton,
Thursday Review editor
The Tuesday death of actress Carrie Fisher reminds us that the Grim Reaper strikes down Hollywood icons with the same regularity—some might perceive with...[read more]
Dolly Parton Extends a Hand to Wildfire Victims
| published December 3, 2016 |
By Earl Perkins,
Thursday Review features editor
Country music superstar Dolly Parton announced through her Dollywood Foundation that the organization will be giving $1,000 per month for six months to families throughout the...[read more]
Who Stinks Now? The Cubs, The Indians, and a French Historian
| published October 27, 2016 |
By Earl Perkins,
Thursday Review features editor
Jules Michelet, 19th century French historian, had writer's block. One of Europe's greatest scribes of all time found himself needing just a bit more...[read more]
Cooper Case Remains a Complete Mystery
| published September 8, 2016 |
By Kevin Robbie,
Thursday Review contributor
Even though the FBI recently closed one of its longest open cases for lack of evidence and lack of progress, a team of self-styled independent sleuths and former FBI agents has...[read more]
Hoffa Disappearance Anniversary
Still Raises Questions
| published August 2, 2016 |
By Kevin Robbie and Alan Clanton,
Thursday Review contributors
July 30, 2016, marked the forty-first anniversary of the disappearance of James Riddle Hoffa, a founding member of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the labor organization’s...[read more]
FBI Closes D.B. Cooper Case
| published July 19, 2016 |
By Kevin Robbie,
Thursday Review contributor
On July 12, 2016, the FBI officially shut down its investigation of the skyjacking of Northwest Airlines Flight 305, after a 45-year effort. Also known as the “D.B. Cooper Case,” it remains the only...[read more]
Protests Across U.S.; Police: Dallas Shooter Acted Alone
| published July 10, 2016 |
By R. Alan Clanton,
Thursday Review editor
Protests were held in scores of U.S. cities and towns in the wake of recent incidents involving white police officers and black citizens, and in the aftermath of deadly shootings in Minneapolis and Louisiana. Over the weekend, massive...[read more]
Boxing Great Muhammad Ali Dies at Age 74
| Published June 4, 2016 |
By R. Alan Clanton,
Thursday Review editor
Muhammad Ali, arguably the most famous boxer of the 20th century and the self-proclaimed “greatest of all time” in the ring, died early Saturday morning after a decades-long battle with Parkinson’s disease and a recent...[Read more]
Fleet Week:
A Salute to Freedom Tower
| Published May 27, 2016 |
By Thursday Review staff
In this photograph, U.S. Navy sailors salute New York City’s Freedom Tower—built on the site which once held the World Trade Center—at the start of the annual Fleet Week in New York. Fleet Week is now a...[Read more]
Is Torture Dentist Competent to
Stand Trial?
| Published May 6, 2016 |
By Earl Perkins,
Thursday Review
features editor
The Florida dentist known in some circles as Dr. Torture will soon face his day in court, and his critics and legal adversaries worry that he...[Read more]
A Gallant and
Worthy Foe:
The Death of the “Red Baron”
| Published April 22, 2016 |
By Kevin Robbie,
Thursday Review writer
One of the many distinguishing features of World War I was the introduction of new weapons, some of which not only represented the height of weapons technology at the time, but also filled the entirety of the modern...[Read more]
Shengsi Island;
To Heck With the Fog
| Published April 5, 2016 |
By Michael Bush,
Thursday Review writer
I recently wrote about a haunted farm in Shanghai, which was really just a farm that gave up trying to attract...[Read more]
ICE Agents Arrest More Than 1,000
| Published March 28, 2016 |By Keith H. Roberts, Thursday Review contributor
According to officials with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE), a division of the Department of Homeland Security, an intensive five-week operation has led to the...[Read more]
Brussels Terror Attacks Leave 31 Dead, Hundreds Wounded
| Published March 22, 2016 |By Thursday Review staff
Terrorist attacks in Brussels have killed at least 31 people in a wave assaults which began early on Tuesday. The attacks included blasts triggered by suicide bombers at the...[Read more]
Top Wounded Warrior Project Execs Fired by Board
| Published March 12, 2016 |By Earl Perkins and
R. Alan Clanton,
Thursday Review writers
After several months of journalistic investigations and at least two audits, the board of directors of the Wounded Warrior Project, a Jacksonville-based charitable organization has...[Read more]
Nine Years, Nine Lives:
A Tribute to Those Swept Away
March 1, 2007
| Published March 1, 2016 |
By Jennifer Walker-James,
Thursday Review
features writer
Michael Bowen, Peter Dunn, A.J. Jackson, Ryan Mohler, Edna Strickland, Katie Strunk, Mikey Tompkins, Jamie Vidensek, Michelle Wilson. Nine years, nine lives...[Read more]
Kelly and Kornienko Return to Earth
| Published February 29, 2016 |
By Keith H. Roberts,
Thursday Review contributor
Earthlings will miss his amazing photographs and his continuous stream of social media—a sort of running commentary on Earth and the way it appears as seen from outer space. His vast collection of photos may one day be...[Read more]
“Dr. Torture” Settles With Former Patients
| Published January 20, 2016 |
By Earl Perkins,
Thursday Review features editor
More than 100 malpractice lawsuits have been "amicably resolved" between Howard S. Schneider, a former Jacksonville, Florida pediatric dentist, and parents of children he allegedly mistreated while under his medical care, according to...[Read more]
How I Was Almost Eaten by Tigers in Thailand
| Published January 16, 2016 |
By Michael Bush, Thursday Review contributor
I always find myself making clarifying statements. I don’t do it because I’m misunderstood or fail to express myself in an intelligible manner. I do it because I want to make sure you people know where...[Read more]
Modern Farming, Ancient Ghosts
| Published January 2, 2016 |
By Michael Bush,
Thursday Review contributor
There is an ancient tradition in China of ancestor worship. Many today still practice the old way of honoring those who came in the generations before you. It is often believed that once someone dies they...[Read more]
Hawaii Raises Legal Age for Tobacco
| Published December 30, 2015 |
By Thursday Review staff
Though more than a dozen U.S. states have considered legislation to make it harder for young people to have access to cigarettes, one state has taken a dramatic step to ban smoking altogether for...[Read more]
Silent Night, Christmas 1914
| Published December 25, 2015 |
By Kevin Robbie
Thursday Review contributor
By December, 1914, World War 1 was entering its fifth month. All the combatants had become adept at industrial slaughter in a war that has become synonymous with that feature. For example, in just two battles, First Marne and First Ypres, western front casualties totaled nearly 750,000 for all combatants. On the eastern front, the battles of Tannenberg and Galicia had...[Read more]
Ice & Beer: The Frozen North
| Published December 13, 2015 |By Michael Bush, Thursday Review writer
Since this is my family's first tropical Christmas, we've found the Malaysian heat makes it hard to really get into the holiday spirit. You can hang tinsel from...[Read more]
Ah, Grasshopper…Cricket!
| Published December 6, 2015 |By Michael Bush, Thursday Review writer
Cities in China are replete with markets and bazaars, and Shanghai is definitely no exception. Cast a stone, and chances are it will fall within...[Read more]
Veil Nebula, Seen From the Hubble
| Published December 1, 2015 |By R. Alan Clanton, Thursday Review editor
An elegant, seemingly gossamer-thin shroud of dust and gases illustrate the remnants of a past supernova—a star which exploded some 8,000 years ago in the constellation Cygnus, also known as...(click to read more)
USS Milwaukee is Commissioned
| Published November 23, 2015 |By Keith H. Roberts,
Thursday Review contributor
Amid heavy snow and a blast of arctic air, sailors from the USS Milwaukee stand in formation with the city’s iconic skyline barely visible in the background. The Milwaukee was commissioned on November 21 in the city for which it is named, and the ship becomes the...[Read more]
Blue Ribbon Memories
| Published November 13, 2015 |By Jennifer Walker-James, Thursday Review writer
Nothing tickles the colorfully rustic roots of Americana quite like the visions of a good ole county fair. Ever since Chicago’s World’s Columbian Exposition (also called The Chicago World’s Fair) became the catalyst for the...[Read more]
Spacewalk to Repair Cooling System
| Published November 10, 2015 |By Thursday Review staff
NASA astronauts Kjell Lindgren and Scott Kelly—working to restore the port truss ammonia cooling system which has been non-operational for several...[Read more]
Striving Against Darkness:
The Story of Holocaust Survivor Ann Rosenheck
| Published November 2, 2015 |By Jennifer Walker-James,
Thursday Review features writer
In the Old Testament, it is said that the soul of man is the candle of God. Thus, the flickering of the candle’s tiny flame serves as...[Read more]
Columbia Manor:
Where Our Greatest Nightmares Came True
| Published November 2, 2015 |By Jennifer Walker-James, Thursday Review features writer
In Stephen King’s IT, eliciting fear is likened to salting the children before the feast. If that’s true, then Columbia Manor is serving up one hellacious banquet of...[Read more]
The Price of Love:
An Open Letter to Domestic Violence Survivors
| Published October 27, 2015 |By Jennifer Walker-James, Thursday Review features writer
In the time it takes me to write this article, an average of 1,200 women across America will be assaulted or beaten by their domestic partner. Within 24 hours, more than 200,000 calls will have been placed to domestic abuse hotlines. And by this time tomorrow, three women in the United States alone will be...[Read more]
The Giant:
Gaining Weight in China; Losing Weight in China
| Published October 17, 2015 |By Michael Bush, Thursday Review contributor
My whole life I have never felt tall. I’ve always considered myself average height; neither short, nor a giant. It’s not hard to understand that when you see me side by side with my two brothers. At an even 6 feet tall (not 5’11” like my younger brother Josh would have...[Read more]
Remove Your Shoes Before Entering the House in China (or, the grossest article you will ever read at Thursday Review!)
| Published October 9, 2015 |
By Michael Bush
Thursday Review contributor
Finding the Right Aunt in China
| Published October 3, 2015 |
By Michael Bush
Thursday Review contributor
Fighting for Life:
A Tribute to Cody Hayes
| Published September 28, 2015 |
By Jennifer Walker-James
Thursday Review contributor
The Long Corridor:
How One American Adjusts to Living in China
| Published September 19, 2015 |
By Michael Bush
Thursday Review contributor
Dying to be Loved:
The Final Footprints of
Blake Coatney
| Published September 12, 2015 |
By Jennifer Walker-James
Thursday Review
features writer
A Very Sloppy, But Very Colorful Galaxy
| Published August 15, 2015 |
Typhoon Relief Efforts
| Published August 14, 2015 |
Biomedical Experiments on Space Station
| Published August 6, 2015 |
By Keith H. Roberts
Thursday Review contributor
Bittersweet 16: The Harrowing Story of an Unsolved Case, From a Mother’s Perspective
| Published August 1, 2015 |
By Jennifer James
Thursday Review contributor
Earth’s Biggest Risk: Solar Storms
| Published July 30, 2015 |
By Keith H. Roberts
Thursday Review contributor
Octopus’s Garden, Well, Maybe Nemo’s Garden
| Published July 26, 2015 |
By Lisa K. Whitten
Thursday Review contributor
Space Station: A Close Call With Space Junk
| Published July 17, 2015 |
A Close-Up Look at Distant Pluto
| Published July 14, 2015 |
Bicentennial Plus 39 in Boston
| Published July 9, 2015 |
Do NOT Stare at the Sun, Unless…
| Published July 8, 2015 |
A Treasury of Vintage and Classic Wheels
| Published July 1, 2015 |
By Earl Perkins
Thursday Review
features editor
City of Ghosts: Chernobyl and
the Evacuation of Pripyat
| Published May 28, 2015 |
By Kevin Robbie
Thursday Review contributor
A Dentist Who Loved Torture and Medical Fraud
| Published May 24, 2015 |
By Earl Perkins
Thursday Review
features writer
The Joy of an Old Media Guide
| Published May 20, 2015 |
By Earl Perkins
Thursday Review
features writer
Himalayan Range “Drops” After Massive Quake
| Published May 9, 2015 |
By Keith H. Roberts
Thursday Review contributor
Hubble Birthday: Celestial Fireworks
| Published April 24, 2015 |
By Keith H. Roberts
Thursday Review contributor
Grayson Allen, Championship Game X-Factor
| Published April 17, 2015 |
By Earl Perkins
Thursday Review
features editor
Rainbow Aurora
| Published April 17, 2015 |
By Keith H. Roberts
Thursday Review contributor
Apollo XIII, 45 Years Ago Today
| Published April 13, 2015 |
A Road Trip on Three Continents
| Published April 11, 2015 |
Australia, Seen From Space
| Published April 8, 2015 |
Expedition 43: One Year in Space
| Published March 29, 2015 |
Which VA Wait is the Worst?
| Published March 9, 2015 |
By Earl Perkins
Thursday Review
features editor
Miracle 1980: Cold War on Ice
| Published February 22, 2015 |
By Kevin Robbie
Thursday Review contributor
Reflections of a Bus Driver
| Published February 5, 2015 |
By Michael Sigler
Thursday Review contributor
Parents of the 43 Missing Want More Answers
| Published January 30, 2015 |
By R. Alan Clanton
Thursday Review editor
Inflation, Deflation, & the NFL
| Published January 23, 2015 |
By Earl Perkins
Thursday Review
features editor
Is Drone Program On Border Wasting Millions?
| Published January 13, 2015 |
By R. Alan Clanton
Thursday Review editor
El Paso: The VA & Security
| Published January 10, 2015 |
By Earl Perkins
Thursday Review
features editor
Thursday Review Readers Respond
| Published January 9, 2015 |
Relics of the Cold War
| Published December 10, 2014 |
By R. Alan Clanton
Thursday Review editor
Orion is Older Than You Think
| Published December 9, 2014 |
By R. Alan Clanton
Thursday Review editor
A Dozen Tips for Maintaining a Healthy Brain
| Published November 20, 2014 |
By Earl Perkins
Thursday Review
features editor
Run Chicken Run: My Therapy
| Published November 2, 2014 |
By Sarah Herrin
Thursday Review contributor/running blogger
Run Chicken Run: My First 10K
| Published October 29, 2014 |
By Sarah Herrin
Thursday Review contributor/running blogger
Run Chicken Run: My Running Buddies
| Published October 25, 2014 |
By Sarah Herrin
Thursday Review contributor/running blogger
Run Chicken Run: My Finisher's Medal
| Published October 20, 2014 |
By Sarah Herrin
Thursday Review contributor/running blogger
Run Chicken Run: My No-Mornings Schedule, and My No Meat Diet
| Published October 15, 2014 |
By Sarah Herrin
Thursday Review contributor/running blogger
Run Chicken Run: My Strength Training
| Published October 11, 2014 |
By Sarah Herrin
Thursday Review contributor/running blogger
Run Chicken Run: My Kit
| Published October 5, 2014 |
By Sarah Herrin
Thursday Review contributor/running blogger
Run Chicken Run: My Motivation
| Published October 1, 2014 |
By Sarah Herrin
Thursday Review contributor/running blogger
Run Chicken Run: My First Injuries
| Published September 24, 2014 |
By Sarah Herrin
Thursday Review contributor/running blogger
The Chief Whose Time Had Passed
| Published July 10, 2014 |
By Earl Perkins
Thursday Review
features editor
Mustang: 50 Years of the Original Pony
| Published June 14, 2014 |
By R. Alan Clanton
Thursday Review editor
Can Angkor Wat Teach Us About Water Management?
| Published May 4, 2014 |
By Earl H. Perkins
Thursday Review
associate editor
Boot Hill's Buried Crimes
Earl H. Perkins
Thursday Review
associate editor
