The Food Network & Cooking Channel South Beach Wine & Food Festival – a bacchanalia I attended pretty much every winter when I lived in Miami Beach – is now in full swing, with more than 100 events on schedule for its 18th annual edition as one of the Magic City’s premier fundraising efforts benefiting […]
This is a cap. A blue cap from a plastic bottle of water. A cap carelessly – no second thought (heck, I bet not a thought, indeed) – discarded on Van Ness Avenue last night for…the world to handle. For someone else to sweep off the street. Or pick up. Who knows. Point is, people, […]
The girl was 5. She adorably demanded, “What are you reading?” He was happy to see his happy neighbor, so he smiled big at her curiosity and so, he said, “A book about an apartment. On further thought…. “A book about an apartment in Paris.” “Why⁉️” she asked without missing a beat. (Bet it sounded in […]
Well aren’t I glad I didn’t spend my money on the midterms. The running idea was to support non-insane, worthy-of-continued-nurture-and-guidance candidates in Georgia, Florida, and Texas (and anywhere else such a person was running) – nothing for California because California didn’t need my jack – but, in the end, I didn’t invest in that way because […]
Both make the people come together. America, bourgeoisie and rebel, sing yourself some of Madonna’s “Music” on your way to the polls this Nov. 6 – tomorrow! – but replace “Music” with “Voting.” Go and cast a vote not only for yourself but for your friends and family, as well as your community. A good thing to […]
Oh the things you see when you go out to walk your dog…. The happy things you see when you’re out with your dog. This is the San Francisco I like. The one I loved seeing yesterday, on the fifth Oct. 4 I’ve spent in the City by the Bay. The one that shows up […]
Last week, I answered one of Madonna’s tweets, and her Music has been playing at home ever since. No music, no fun. No fun, no life. Repeat it like a mantra.
This happened three weeks ago tomorrow – but it may as well have happened last night or it may as well happen tonight. One for the books, I tell ya. One of my cousins was in town from L.A. for work, so we agreed to meet for burgers on Fillmore. He was staying in the bubble […]
Pasear por el #BarrioChino de #SanFrancisco hace unas semanas luego me hizo pensar en los amigos venezolanos que han dejado #Venezuela por esta u otra razón. Bastantes han arrivado en #Peru, mi país de nacimiento; conocí a algunos la última vez que estuve en #Lima, en enero. Todos – jóvenes, con familias – ejercían el trabajo que […]
King of Cups 