Clayton News Daily

Vicious kindness at the Beaux Arts

By Ed Brock

Americans love their God-forsaken cars - Trina Trice

It makes sense that the people who live in this country are madly in love, if not obsessed, with the very thing that makes us both innocent Americans and the devil incarnate in the eyes of the rest of the world.

The difference between Matrix I and II

A few weeks ago, in a review of Matrix II, I suggested the Wachowski brothers had lost sight of their first film's evocation of Mystery. Perhaps now is a good time to discuss the difference between the ineffable (Mystery) and the merely hidden.

Local mayors add pressure for school board resignations

By Trina Trice

Life's little answers are elusive - Bob Paslay

I remember as a kid that you could go into a shoe store and have fun sticking your feet in an X-ray machine to laugh with friends and look at the bones in your feet. One friend got addicted to it and did it a lot. Now the X-ray technicians wear protective gear because we have learned that there is nothing funny about the power of X-rays.