As a disabled veteran with a service dog trained by K9 Partners for Patriots in Brooksville (Florida), I have a unique perspective on one of the most pressing issues facing the service dog community today: the proliferation of fake service animals and fraudulent disability claims. Service dogs are extraordinary animals that undergo intensive training lasting
The Celtics had two head coaches present at Saturday morning’s practice at the Auerbach Center. One, of course, was Joe Mazzulla. The other: Mazzulla’s new Patriots counterpart, Mike Vrabel. Vrabel, who was hired as New England’s head coach last month, watched practice before slipping away as the Celtics opened the court to reporters. “It was
Filmmakers tinker with the question of tone from project to project, many not as much as they should. But writer-director Osgood Perkins has no problem with tonal adjustment. His recent and most popular feature, last year’s “Longlegs,” worked in a sustained register of steady, clammy, creepily effective dread. Perkins makes a hard left into merrily
Writer-director Osgood Perkins knows about horror, having scored last year with his critically acclaimed Nicolas Cage blockbuster “Longlegs.” Now he tackles Stephen King’s legendary short story, “The Monkey,” where a malignant toy means immediate death for anyone unlucky enough to be in its orbit. Perkins, 51, has made his reputation filming his original scripts. Adapting King’s