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“Death to Chain Restaurants,” or how one evening at Taco Bell…
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Menu Items: Babette’s Feast, the film (1987): “Once good taste is…
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Shane’s Excellent New Words: One bluegill, one crappie, one carp
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Menu Items: You may wish to rethink humble pie for Thanksgiving…
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Menu Items: Štruklji, Jota and Pelinkovac — or, what I ate…
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Quadrophenia: “Ain’t it funny how we all seem to look the…
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Roger’s year in music, 2021
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“Funeral,” by Tigercub
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Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington, et al (Part Two)
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Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn, et al (Part One)
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Menu Items: “Tastes of Paradise: A Social History of Spices, Stimulants…
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Roger’s year in books and reading, 2021
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Books: “Bowling for Communism” in Leipzig
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Books and politics, with Roberto Bolaño and “The Savage Detectives”
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Louisville beer, now and then (or, my 2014 review of Kevin…
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The famous mishap in Madrid, November, 1989
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From 2017: “When it comes to beer, less might yet be…
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European Grand Tour 1985, Part 2: In Luxembourg, I hit the…
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European Grand Tour 1985, Part 1: Three months that shook my…
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Not Hip & Fewer Hops: Congratulations to Larry, who found his…
Miscellany
Miscellany
It’s hard to converse when your party’s official policy is censorship
Miscellany
My curious habit of conversing with other people over beers, and…
Miscellany
Shane’s Excellent New Words: Hagiography — or haggis?
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Hunter S. Thompson eulogizes Richard M. Nixon (1994): “He Was a…
Miscellany
How I learned to stop worrying and love El Jefe —…
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Welcome to Nawbany, Episode 2: Knee deep in the hoopla
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ON THE AVENUES: When love and hate collide, or my father’s…
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Welcome to Nawbany, Episode 1: Let’s all fight for something, anything,…
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EXILE ON SPRING STREET: In defense of godlessness in everyday life
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I've meant to tell this story many times over the years. Earlier this week the topic arose at Facebook in the form of a...
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As a prelude to all these preludes, from 2014 straight through to the present day, recently I was approached separately by two local Democratic...
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Emerging from the shadows of The Dolphin pub in Plymouth’s Barbican, we began walking toward the stunningly perfect natural harbor, the open sea a...