Three hippies linger in the former dining room of the Farmhouse, lounged on sectional sofas and recovering from the first annual "Rakefest" Friday night. It's…
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My valet Clive and I were in our Fort Bragg offices playing backgammon and discussing economic theory when the knock came on the door. I…
When it comes to piano scenes in movies I go for the kind that are keen to dismantle the homey myths that surround the instrument.…
The just-released movie Spotlight is about a Boston Globe investigative reporting team circa 2001-02 that uncovered and documented a vast network of child sex abuse…
On this evening I was walking home from the censorship office to the Florida Hotel and it was raining. So about halfway home I got…
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past” — F. Scott Fitzgerald. Scott’s famous metaphor, the last line of…
The city council met Monday and the city was subjected to a nuclear option power play by Linda Ruffing and the city machine. They played…
Anybody reading this has recently survived another Thanksgiving holiday. Too much food of course, to the point of gluttony and beyond, and the undercurrents of…
Nothing – not drones, bombs, apps, or awards – stops the white male North American intellectual in his quest to nail the nature of the…