Curious City

THAT I SLEPT THROUGH THE ELECTION! Didn’t vote! Stayed up so late worrying about the outcome that by 7 a.m....

KNOW WHAT I'M GOING TO DO? After the election? I’m going to start writing about all the good things that go...

THE TROUBLE WITH POLITICS — is people. And the trouble with government is that politics determines which people run our...

MICHAEL MOORE Artists must take risks. It’s the only way to grow and to reach for something you might think...

THANK YOU, DONALD TRUMP For anyone not stark raving delusional, those words are almost always proffered dripping with sarcasm. In...

I DON’T UNDERSTAND This dreaded mystery which unfolds on its own hidden schedule. So much is not visible, graspable, explainable....

NOW IT’S PERSONAL Old dogs CAN learn new tricks. Maybe that’s why they made it to old doggage. There’s nothing...

FORGET THE ALAMO Remember the Bird. I know, there was Lime squeezing in too, and a couple of others tried...

POLITICAL SCHOLARS AGREE That the tenor of a government, the spirit, always comes from the top. It doesn’t have to...

ONE FRIDAY We had the possibility of three or four good alternative candidates for City Council, and by a week...