My brother just sent me this great joke from James Carville’s Had Enough? A Handbook for Fighting...
New York Times architecture critic, Herbert Muschamp rhapsodizes about Seattle’s new Central Library in The Library That...
Hope you didn’t miss Elizabeth Bumiller’s attempt (Rumsfeld Preserves Bearing, but Weighs Ability to Serve) to humanize...
Alex Witchel profiled Mimi Sheraton in Undisguised Pleasures of a Former Critic. Turns out that Sheraton’s mom,...
We have had a relatively mild winter (only one cold spell during which the temperatures went down...
That all depends on who in the Administration you talk to, on what day, and which country...
The New York Times reported yesterday in An Afghan Gives His Own Account of U.S. Abuse that...
In March, we went to New York City for an egg donor procedure at NYU Medical Center’s...
In times of great crisis, when a nation is torn by as divisve an event as the...
This may be apparent to some of you who add Amazon Associates links to your Typelists and...
Hesperion XXI at Berkeley concert duringprevious U.S. tour (credit: funfolks.com) Yesterday night, I had the great privilege...
Barcelona Haggadah (14th century),Jews departing synagogue(credit: modia.org) Historical Background: In this current age of venomous Arab-Jewish relations,...
