Do actors make good directors? I’m blowed if I know. Some can certainly do it. So when I was looking up Tom McCarthy, the director of The Visitor, I was pleasantly surprised to see he had lots of acting credits, including several for The Wire. He was also in Syriana. And he wrote and directed The...
In my youth I wandered the long plastic hallways where thieves and pimps run free, and one thing always gave grown men and women pause for thought: what did the public make of their offerings? Sophisticated measurements like the Audience Appreciation Index were pored over for signs of impact, whic...
My Berkeley food ruminations took me to Carnival of the Green, and it is only right and proper that I welcome visitors from there. What did I discover of interest?
Adam, waxing lyrical about Australian Organic Blood Oranges. I know I’m spoilt, but the ones from Sicily that will be appearing...
Dr. Robert Gallo, director of the Institute for Human Virology at the University of Maryland and a prominent early researcher in HIV, said it was “a disappointment” not to be honored along with Montagnier and Barre-Sinoussi.
I’ll bet he did. The Nobel Committee could have given it to Luc Mon...
It is with books as with the fire in our hearths; we go to a neighbour to get the embers and light it when we return home, pass it on to others, and it belongs to everyone.
That Voltaire, what a card! He says something seemingly simple, like “The best is the enemy of the good,” (or, more li...
