Curious City

  OKAY, OKAY I’ve been around the block a time or two. I should know how things work. I do...

    Can't Tell the Players Without a scorecard, right? We need one in Santa Monica. Who’s going to take...

  FORBIDDEN FRUIT When I took my first year-long peregrination across Europe in ‘72-’73, I decided mid-course to make a...

BILL BAUER, JOURNALIST Our late columnist is missed as a friend, a most generous spirit to those who knew him,...

    CUBA, SI! I’ll be in Havana day after tomorrow, with the family, and can’t wait. And I owe...

AND THE ANGELS SANG! And the sun burst through the clouds. As the newsflash I’ve been waiting for, for almost...

  I’LL TELL MOM!! I guess I’m like that big brother (we have turned the clocks forward to 1984, yes?)...

    RESISTANCE IS NOT FUTILE But it can be exhausting. Longtime activists know that, but newcomers may get blindsided,...

PICKY, PICKY, PICKY And paranoid. Silly. Ignorant, and naive. I have been made to feel that way often, over the...

  GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN Everybody knew Bill Bauer. And maybe nobody did. He was complex but not contradictory. Mysterious...