WAIT, THE TEMPLE WASN'T ON THE TEMPLE MOUNT...? WE WERE in Austria, just south of Munich. It was Sabbath. I had only recently fallen into a Venice canal but that's an entirely different incident. We were reading our Torah portions as a family and listening to...
THE BRILLIANCE of PBS is its constant reminder that the arts need our financial support in order to survive. This is no doubt intended to gain our sympathies and draw us into the illusion of free agency when in fact everything is scripted. On May 1, 1969, Fred Rogers...
VIEWING PICTURES of beatnik William Burroughs paired with other faces of popular culture is like uncovering a who’s-who in the spook world. I figure it’s probably how spooks knew to identify other spooks back in the day, by paying attention to the latest up and...
IF YOU grew up in Los Angeles, then you probably won't dispute the purported fact that everyone's an actor, a writer, an artist, or a musician. And if not, then they know somebody who is. A fair bet says their mom even took at trip to Woodstock once. At least, she...
1 THE TALL, DARK, AND HANDSOME standing on her doorstep was the very tall, dark, and handsome from her dream—quite literally. To put it in slightly other terms, she had dreamed of this very scenario earlier that morning. Even his clothes were indistinguishable. Karen...