When I was a lad, there were dozens of movie theaters in my neighborhood, in the days just before the multiplex killed the screens. By the time my eldest was born, there were three left, and the local sports bars had bigger screens than most of the ones you could find at the movies. The closest theater to my old house closed last summer. It was hard to take; I’d seen so many movies there, and in fact it was one of the first places I went to with just my friends, in about the fourth or fifth grade. (We … Continue reading →