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Posts published in “Day: June 18, 2003

Los Angeles in Two Parts

Book Show: I steer a brand-new four-door Cadillac through Koreatown, which is much larger than I imagined. Block after block of Korean restaurants and banks and groceries, the rooftops where proprietors stood with rifles to…

Corking Bats Ain’t All

So Chicago Cubs slugger Sammy Sosa was recently caught using a corked bat.  Imagine that: Cheating in baseball! Some of our learned pundits have been shocked — shocked! — to the point of warning that…

My Life as a Rabbi

Asked to a recent wedding in Virginia (it was a family affair on a grand scale), the proud parents asked if I would do some sort of officiation. It would be my second inning in…

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