In Snark Contrast

After a whirlwind four-week trip to Italy with over a dozen destinations followed by the super long flight back to L.A. (abetted by a 6-hour delay ...

Note: I'm presently vacationing in Italy (just leaving Bologna for 4 days in Lake Como) so I'm recalling another 40-year-old piece from 1984 that I...

Note: I'm presently on vacation in Italy (right around now finishing up a week in Sicily and soon heading for Capri).  Below is a piece I had publi...

In Germany it's called "Stille Post". In Turkey, it goes by "kulaktan kulağa". The moniker in France is "téléphone arabe" whereas in Finland the na...

I could feel her looking me up and down through the lenses of her designer Ray Bans (worth $145) as I purchased a Caffe Mocha Grande (worth $4.65) ...

This piece is for all you parents out there who've miraculously endured the hapless journey of raising teenagers. And while there's an astonishing ...

The caveman years, they couldn't have been easy, right? And that's if you were lucky enough to score a cave. More often than not, these paleolithic...

Say you're living in ancient times, doing a little sheep herding. It's one of those glorious early spring mornings, the dew still on the ground, na...

Come on in. Take a load off. Put your feet up. And just so you know, this here blog is free. That's right, not gonna cost you a cent. The entire pi...

"... And this year's nominations are: Maria Santos for 'The Seventh Street and Western Intersection', Seth McDaniel for 'The Crawford Middle School...

Want to guard against exhibiting frown lines at a social engagement? Just apply a bit of adhesive tape between your eyebrows on the days beforehand...

Like this woman needs more publicity? It's not enough she's part of everything, everywhere, all at once? But now this... taking up residence in my ...