There are two approaches to watching the Olympics—and to listening to them. The first is to sail over the contradictions of the Games like you’ve launched from the ninety-meter jump: lean out over your skis,…
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I saw it on the CBS Evening News so it had to be true. But all kidding aside, it was, in early November, the feeding frenzy on Monterey Bay: whales and dolphins and sea lions…
Ciro Mancuso, skiing star Julia Mancuso’s father, was in the marijuana industry before it was legit — a premature ganjapreneur, you might say.
...the unsavory vision of Bob Dylan sliding into Chevrolet’s latest sedan and gurgling patriotic garbage about American pride above ambient guitar chords
Yes, a person can get homesick every now and then when gone south for the winter. But there is a cure: call home. Doesn’t matter who. Just call any number in the 218 or 701…
I was one of those young writers who, for fun and incentive, once papered the four walls of my rented room (from floor to ceiling) with form rejection letters
It’s said that Shirley Temple is responsible for one of Graham Greene’s least good but most Catholic novels The Power & The Glory. In the late 1930s an impoverished Greene, scrounging for rent money, became the…
It's been a long time since I first heard about underground missile silos in Colorado. It was the Cold War and we were ready, so the story went. Twenty years or so ago, I became…
In anticipation of the upcoming event, I met with René Auberjonois at his home in Anderson Valley and we were joined...by René’s good friend, Howard Hesseman