You might have noticed that the commentariat is trying--well, some of the commentariat--to think positively these first few days of the Trump 2.0 administration. We've found a couple of those "What ...
Faced with more drought and increasingly frequent wildfires, southern Californians have been encouraged for years to rip out water-guzzling lawns. They have also been urged to forgo non-native, ...
Long ago, in a small, dimly lit college classroom, I listened to an urban studies professor explain the concept of concentric zones. A heavy smell of cigarettes rose every time he brushed by in his ...
As a classic-movie enthusiast, it has always struck me as odd that so many people who have never seen "Citizen Kane" or "The Searchers," or even made much effort to, are so eager to spend their ...
What seems to me to be a lifetime ago, I had a great friend, one who was more like a big brother, whom I and others regarded as a perfectly wonderful young man. He's gone now, but like so many of us ...