And now, for something completely different...

Just a few days after The Marriage of Figaro , it was time for my second opera.  Up next was Rigoletto , or as S liked to call it, Rigatoni....

The symphony is over, which means it's opera season!  E arrived on Thursday afternoon, and we went to dinner that evening at Savage , wh...

Did you know that the World Taxidermy and Fish Carving Championships is a thing? I did, but only because I learned about it at SLIFF a few...

Zombieland was a pick of S's.  I didn't think I was going to like it at all.  It is exactly what you would expect -- the last fe...

Our last show of the season brought an oldie but goodie back to SLSO.  Leonard Slatkin was the music director of SLSO from 1979 to 1990.  T...

Dad was in town several times in May, and that meant that we explored a couple of new restaurants. First up was Il Palato , which opened w...

I liked The Friend a lot.  I was predisposed to, on account of the dog on the cover.  I feel like putting a dog on the cover of a book is...

There was a period in my education when my interest in history was in the middle to late sections of the 20th century.  Among my areas of in...