New sidewalk sales idea: Sell through the fence

  In the small town of Duck Lake, Saskatchewan, Marilyn Pope Francis ran a restaurant with a fenced patio for tables and chairs. She set up hot serving dishes and a cold drinks station in the gazebo to serve customers. Here’s the part where we learn that Marilyn is a low-key business genius. Next to … Read more

Make a “What to do in…” Pinterest Board

— How many times have you heard it? Someone lamenting, “There’s nothing to do here!” Worse yet, hearing someone tell visitors that. “What is there to do around here?” “Nothing, really. I don’t know.” Enough with that. Let’s give people an easy way to answer, and let’s do it the Idea Friendly way. Make a … Read more

The Penguin Episode 3 Review: Anything But Bliss

This Penguin review contains spoilers. “We’re in it now, Vic!” Oz Cobb shouts to his sidekick Victor at the end of The Penguin‘s third episode, “Bliss.” The line provides symmetry to the opening of the episode, in which we meet Victor Agular’s family, just hours before they all die in the explosions and flooding the … Read more

The Best Horror Movies of 2024 (So Far)

Horror movies are back. Actually they never left. Yet after a few underperformed in the springtime, pundits with apparently a short-term memory about the genre perceived that its popularity was on the decline. Turns out, reports of its demise were greatly exaggerated—like always. One of the most basic and satisfying things cinema can offer is … Read more