No human females are harmed in this post; the reference is to the word. I've seen it noted that people not native to English often hav...

The imminence of the second occasion in US history that a former president has returned for a second, non-consecutive term sends me thinking...

Our niece hosted the usual big friends-and-family gathering today, and politics never came up. The obnoxious brothers who used to express r...

Thursday was the centenary of the birth of Christopher Tolkien, son and literary executor of JRRT, and the man responsible - directly or ind...

1. It's been raining, a little. Not quite the first storm of the season, as one hit while I was in LA (where it did not rain at all). ...

Last June, I went to the San Francisco Opera's Magic Flute , which I found so boring and dreary that I got up at intermission and never ...

I attended and reviewed an unexpectedly unusual concert on Sunday. Here, the headline my editors put on it says it all: San Jose Chamber Or...

Not really concerts as I normally go to them, but certainly musical: 1) Caroline Shaw and Gabriel Kahane This was at Herbst and sponsored...

And the other artistic expedition that I made on my trip to LA was to venture down to the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana, because it was hosting...

In a living room east of LA on Monday afternoon, five locals who are Mythopoeic Society regulars but were not able to attend this year's...