1) So Trump gave his speech on election fraud. His real motivating factor here is his belief that he's so wonderful that nobody would v...

As I'm not professionally reviewing any more, I have no required commitments at the Music@Menlo Festival, and I'm going to be away f...

Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness (Penguin, 2024) I...

The temperature the last few days has been approaching 100F, which is about as hot as it ever gets here. (We're in the first valley in ...

So now it's our turn to be terrified of cyclosporiasis. No more green salads for a while - which is a nuisance, as B. often has salads ...

The Lamplighters, San Francisco's Gilbert & Sullivan troupe, is reinventing itself, due to the financial pressures facing local thea...

I've mentioned that I had as broken tooth extracted. This leaves a space which has to heal for a period of several months until an impl...

"I poured root beer into a square glass. Now I have just beer."

Slate has been running a daily quiz of six questions each with four multiple-choice possible answers, which runs the gamut from six questio...

So I did, Sunday afternoon, attend an Independence Day celebration of a sort. The Terrible Adult Chamber Orchestra, that group of nonprofes...