Curious City

By CHARLES ANDREWS HAPPY DANG NEW YEAR! No, seriously. Despite my cynicism over over-the-top New Year’s Eve celebrations expressed in...

By CHARLES ANDREWS I LOVE MOROCCO -- SO WHAT? CURIOUS CITY has for its last six years out of seven...

By CHARLES ANDREWS “IT’S A THIRD WORLD COUNTRY” -- the young American (Canadian?) traveller observed “knowingly” to me as we...

By CHARLES ANDREWS DISAPPOINTED BUT NOT SURPRISED That so few showed up at City Hall last week, to protest our...

YOU MAY THINK THIS IS ABOUT MUSIC And therefore should be showing up in Thursday’s NOTEWORTHY column, instead of here....

ROCKER GONE SOFT? I mean, LA Opera’s “Hansel & Gretel” for pete’s sake, the children’s tale, now a holiday staple?...

MLK JR EXPLAINS SM ELECTIONS “Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking… Nothing pains some...

By CHARLES ANDREWS I AM A VETERAN Of the Viet Nam War. The way I usually say it, when I...

WHAT A GREAT TOWN No, that’s way too weak. This is a magical city. A little further down I will...

DEPRESSED? Plenty of good reasons, many in your own backyard (where burglars got in, or the front sidewalk you can...