I often encountered that marble slab beside the sidewalk. On my way home from a a night in the bars and nightclubs of Cumberland Avenue, I would shift my route …
The Eternal Eclipse: Is this really the experience of a lifetime?
If you’re puzzled about the claims made for the upcoming eclipse, don’t feel like a stranger. Reach a certain age, and you remember hearing a lot about eclipses, the first …
Chinese Mornings: My Crowd-Control Summer
Every summer for the rest of my life may remind me of one particular summer a long time ago. Sometimes it’s an afternoon rain, or a bright humid morning, or …
Paul Lynde the prophet, the New Tower of Babel, and more fun with journalism in the 21st century
Much of our century reminds me of a show I used to watch as a kid when I was home sick. It came on around lunchtime. I never watched it …
And So We Take a Break: My final print column. Or not.
I’m resisting comparisons to the summer’s other big event, the Great Solar Eclipse. If I were so presumptuous—and why shouldn’t I be, considering that we named our weekly paper after …