he grew up under stars suspended in black aspic, no city illuminated in any direction. there weren't really roads in his part of morocco...

ten minutes after the last stragglers had trotted into the press and industry screening, the film students and i flopped against the carpete...

BIRDS THAT HAVE BITTEN ME american crow american robin blue jay bufflehead brant canada goose chukar herring gull house sparrow la...

in half an hour or so, i'll head across town to pick up my fourth tribeca crew tee. it's nearly film festival time, internets! i fa...

the dirty dozen {notes from my hometown police blotter, as reported by the oc register *} Suspicious person/circumstances. 9:35 p.m. A ca...

one of the six dozen public-address systems along the half marathon route began to thump with the piano notes at the top of " empire s...

last week's axes were awfully obvious, if one can blog about emotional and cultural geometry (does one blog about anything else?). down ...

[Sarah Sophie] Flicker helps run a women's-rights campaign called Lady Parts Justice , "to keep women up to date on what's hap...

it's been cold.

FOOD. Sylvia [Plath] was earthy and welded to the sensual world. Toasted cream cheese and olive sandwiches. Late-summer feasts of steak, s...

THINGS YOUR CLOTHES SAY ABOUT YOU You’re like the sister they never had. Your too-animated conversation with Count Vronsky in Princess Be...