Beware, yuletide oupistidophobes, ‘cuz I’m watching you

(This guest column first appeared in December of 2009 at the former New Albany Tribune. It has been updated and lightly tweaked.) Phobias are among...

C’mon, do you really believe Robert Maxwell accidentally fell off that yacht?

At this point in the nation's haphazard experience, most Americans know far too much about Ghislaine Maxwell owing to her connections with the conveniently...

“Almost half of all car trips in U.S. cities are three miles long or...

Just following up on that point I was making about the way an actual New Albany bicycling network inside the beltway, the rudiments of...

As the mademoiselle from Armentieres reminds us, it’s Armistice Day

https://youtu.be/fhuS14yFk08?si=0QpOyFQbZAi82qwB "Forgotten fields in Flanders" was written in 2009 for publication in the New Albany Tribune prior to its merger with The Evening News. I've...

Hill Street Blues, from a time when I cared about such matters

Thanks to my friend Bluegill, this Hill Street Blues video retrospective was an hour well spent, and mind you, I don't often have warm...

The cars hiss by my window (and rev, snort, shift, fart and scream)

Every day on Spring Street in Nawbany, drivers race from one end of my city to the other, concerned only with their own pass-through convenience,...

Our weekly editorial meme: “To the dimmer go the spoils”

Well, you KNOW the way they've always been. Vultures hunt by instinct, not college degrees.

Shane’s Excellent New Words: Hagiography — or haggis?

Welcome to another installment of SHANE'S EXCELLENT NEW WORDS, which was a regular feature of the now defunct NA Confidential blog. But why new words? Why not the...

ON THE AVENUES: Mourning in America

There are no hard and fast rules about mourning in America. In the beginning, we inherited primarily English customs, as embraced, modified and eventually...

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Beers with a Stoic: Wouldn’t it be less expensive NOT to brew house beer?

Let's say that you're a small brewery with a relentless social media presence of three, four or more Fb posts per day, probably 90%...

Beers with a Stoic: On Hop Atomica, brewery taproom expectations and generation gaps

Long ago and faraway, it was explained to me — again and again — that responsible (read: profit-seeking) restaurants and bars simply could not...

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Probably 95% of comments here are spam, and for the past couple of years I've kept them corralled until they could be rejected. The...