Top Five Destinations of Jackson, Wyoming
I think everyone can fall victim to romanticizing our firsts. A first date, a first kiss, a first crush, a first love, a first fuck, a first car, a first road trip, a first day of school or whatever, those things stick in your head. I know visions of...
Top Five Movies of Halle Berry
When I do most of these lists, the five best movies jump out at me almost immediately, or in other cases, the four best or three best or two best and I have to scavenge around for the rest. Halle Berry poses an interesting problem: do I either list the...
Top Five Destinations of Salt Lake City
As far as cities large enough to have a professional sports team go, Salt Lake City seems like one of the least interesting. (Originally, I wrote this sentence as the definitive “least,” but then I remembered both Green Bay and Oklahoma City. While...
Top Five Movies of Brittany Snow
On a dare I went to see “The Pacifier.” To explain, I used to average over a movie a week in theaters. Somehow, I believe the bet evolved from whether or not I possessed any selectivity. That and a belief among my friends and I that it’s a lark...
Top Five Destinations of Omaha
One of the stranger second dates I ever had involved Omaha, Nebraska. I don’t remember the first date at all, but I know sometime during that evening, she hit me with a question. I felt a bit of surprise, but the date was going well, and before I knew...
Top Five Movies of Emily Blunt
It has been a long summer. I’m not talking about heat, humidity or drought. Well, I’m kind of talking about a drought, a much less serious drought, a drought of good movies. Fortunately, the movie distribution companies change their strategy of releasing...
Top Five Destinations of Rapid City, South Dakota
I lived in western Nebraska when I was five years old. During that time, my family took a trip to the Black Hills of South Dakota and Rapid City. I don’t remember much of that time, but I do remember sitting in the front seat of a car without a seat...
Top Five Movies of Jennifer Lawrence
How do you know if something is real? How do you know if someone, something or sometime is real within a movie? For some of Jennifer Lawrence’s movies, it’s easy. There are no mutants with superpowers in the world. (Though the geek in me adds the...
Top Five Destinations of Detroit
My only experience with Detroit came on a road trip from Chicago to see Tiger Stadium before it closed shop. On that weekend, I got to enjoy a game under the shade of the second level behind first base and one from the upper level of the outfield bleachers....
Top Five Movies of Olivia Thirlby
What is the tipping point to make sure you see a movie? Is it just the subject? Is it the director? Is the writer? Is it the actors? Or is it some combination of all of those things and more and when it reaches a critical mass, you know you’ll be going...
Top Five Destinations of Bismarck, North Dakota
I used to have no clue about north, south, east or west. Growing up in my hometown, I didn’t need to know. I started running around those streets playing capture the flag through many a neighborhood. As my parents drove me to practices and friend’s...
Top Five Movies of Ari Graynor
“Celeste and Jesse Forever” is now showing in limited release and will open wide later this year. “10 Years” has a release date of September 14th. What two things do these movies have in common besides the fact that neither has been in my kitchen?...
Top Five Destinations of Milwaukee
For a guy that spent every summer in Wisconsin while growing up, I know very little about the state east of I-90. I look at a map of the state and have some remembrances of places like Baraboo, Marshfield, Tomah, Hayward and Ladysmith, but Green Bay or...
Top Five Movies of Kristen Bell
Not only does “Safety Not Guaranteed” have the awesome Aubrey Plaza from the great “Parks and Recreation” it also has a part for the lovely Kristen Bell. I first found Kristen while watching the great series “Deadwood,” then the second season...
Top Five Destinations of Boise
I’ve only been to Boise once and my experiences occurred after a weeklong rafting trip on the Middle Fork of the Salmon River in the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness. (That has to be one of the best names for a wilderness area ever.) So, after...
Top Five Movies of Leslie Mann
Have you ever craved a comedy no matter what? A compulsion so strong that you might try anything just to let that laugh stuck deep down in your gut a chance to bellow forth? You may look at the Google listings of all the movies in your area, comb the...
Top Five Destinations of Miami
Part of the fun of exploring new places comes from adapting your expectations for pleasure and enjoyment to your surroundings. To put it in cliché form, “When in Rome, do as the Romans do.” If you’re in the Rockies, those words mean skiing, hiking...
Top Five Movies of Julie Delpy
Every once in a while, I come across an actress in my research and the first thought to cross my mind is, “How do I not know more about Julie Delpy?” It’s an especially strange thought when I research Catherine Tate. However, because I am researching...
Top Five Destinations of Missoula, Montana
As I’ve been researching many different cities and combining my personal knowledge with that of the internet, I realized something. I’ve been doing big cities. Austin and Portland have been the only cities I’ve examined without a major league baseball...
Top Five Movies of Rosemarie DeWitt
I’m just a guy that twice a week writes about movies and traveling for the corner of the web that is TSBmag.com. I enjoy researching each of these actresses and locations to find new information and to shill for things that I enjoy. This week, I look...
