MUSLIM LORE—FROM GLUBB PASHA AND THE NEW YORK TIMES STYLE MAGAZINE PART 1
HAVING ONCE MET Sir John Bagot Glubb, aka Glubb Pasha, I now and again enjoy perusing his authoritative and most readable account of the founder of Islam. The Los Angeles … Continue reading
TEAM TEACHING: DISSOLVING THE WALLS OF EDUCATION
AT FIRST GLANCE, IT LOOKS LIKE pandemonium. But Mesa, Arizona, is piloting a Team Teaching project, wherein the separation of classes across physical or grade distinctions are dissolved. Here are … Continue reading
A PLACE FOR THE CAR
BRITISH ARTIST KIERAN GABRIEL HITS a sweet spot in my appreciation of cars, architecture, and favorite artistic influences. The September 2022 Classic & Sports Car features his work in its … Continue reading
TEGEL GOES ECO
TEGEL HAS BEEN a hunting ground for the pleasure of Prussian nobles. It was home for Nazi rocket scientists. The airport played an important humanitarian role in the Berlin Airlift … Continue reading
DISSING (MERELY FOR CONTRAST) PART 2
COLIN M. JARMAN WAS KNOWN as the King of Quotes, and he certainly earned this in Barbed Quotes: Mudslinging, Backstabbing, and Celebrity Dirt Dishing. Here we continue sharing quotes from … Continue reading
DISSING (MERELY FOR CONTRAST) PART 1
I WOULDN’T WANT this website’s occasional niceties to get in the way of reality. Thus, here I offer a book review replete with tidbits of its dissing. What with one … Continue reading
WHAT’S MY “BEST-BY” DATE? PART 2
IN PART 1 YESTERDAY WE DISCUSSED the food terms “Best-By,” “Sell-By,” and “Use-By.” Today’s Part 2 continues with the crucial aspect of food waste, a specific matter of eggs, and … Continue reading
WHAT’S MY “BEST-BY” DATE? PART 1
“EVERY DAY IN EVERY WAY, I’m getter better and better,” or so said Émile Coué. Not that I would agree with everything Coué said. Nevertheless, there is certainly something to … Continue reading
THE SAVOYARDS, PHANTASMAGORIAS, AND ONE OF MY FAVORITE BROADWAY MUSICALS
I’VE BEEN ENJOYING The Cinema in Flux, Lenny Lipton’s 795-page celebration of everything from magic lanterns to digital projection. Tidbits here are about itinerant lanternists, some scaring the bejesus out … Continue reading
ON LATE MEDIEVAL CLUTTER
HAVING READ TOM Johnson’s “No More Baubles,” London Review of Books, September 22, 2022, I feel a kinship with people living in Late Medieval London. We were/are prone to clutter. … Continue reading
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