Across most of its four-hundred-year history, opera has been predominantly an urban pursuit. It flourished in Italian cities—Florence, Mantua, Venice, Naples—then was exported to the rest of Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries and…
Posts published in “Essays”
My dear Trophy of a wife declared we needed to talk, and when she said it her teeth were gritted and her tone was flat. Ominous. I did a quick and guilty fact-check of some…
It was inevitable the day would come I’d be sprinkling handfuls of nickels onto my driveway, yet it’s a melancholy task all the same. How long before a frosting-like layer of dimes will be spread…
Everybody brought up to believe in the scientific method knows that anecdotal evidence is not proof. What you observed might have been a rare occurrence. I get it. I worked at Scientific American in the…
I have wanted to write about this for some time, knowing the ruffled feathers will be highly agitated at my audacity to share the truth. So here is my unapologetic stance on the narrative of…
I wanted to finish my rant on baseball and several other things I mentioned earlier. I was always interested in the Editor’s baseball career, mentioned many times, as well as Candlestick Park, etc. I left…
Pain is gain, all the way up towards 20,000 RPM, music to the ears, the urgent advice of audiologist be damned. Even in the marginally quieter age of hybrid Formula 1 cars that dawned against…