The Hitch is right; San Francisco hasn’t got it. Not anymore. From Vanity Fair (the emphasis is my own): It isn’t possible to quantify the extent to which society and culture are indebted to Bohemia. In every age in every successful country, it has been important that at least a small part of the cityscape [...]
What happens when people my age (28) or younger start to feel nostalgic? Some turn to the common cultural thread of television. I’ve found a handful of YouTube tributes to the cable channel Nickelodeon, which, according to a couple of these videos, enjoyed a golden era from about 1990 to 2004. The kids born in [...]
Hard times around the globe these days. Earthquake in China. Cyclone in Burma. Tornados in the U.S. An enormous volcano on the verge of collapse in Chile. Over the past several months, I’ve been working on a story about a possible earthquake here in the Bay Area. One thing I’ve learned is starkly visible in [...]
Before the fall of Saigon, there was the loss of Da Nang, a major port city and host to American military forces during the Vietnam War. As North Vietnamese forces approached the city, residents tried to evacuate. For a little more information that covers some of the technical details–fuel loss, passenger load, etc.–click on the [...]
There are several interesting stories coming out of the crane accident in New York City. One was Susan Dominus’s portrait of the typical scene at Fubar, which occupied the ground floor of the destroyed townhouse on East 50th. Although the occupations of the regulars comes as a surprise (advertising, television cameraman, programmer) and doesn’t exactly [...]
I clicked onto Field & Stream‘s “The 50 Greatest Lures of All Time” and saw this and was transported back to summer days in Texas and Minnesota and Alaska. I’d be sitting in our alumninum bass boat with my brother and dad as it rocked slowly on the surface of a lake. We were fishing, [...]
Photo by Tony Cenicola A long-lost cache of original negatives shot by Robert Capa (as well, possibly, as Gerda Taro and others) recently turned up in Mexico City. According to the Times: The suitcase — actually three flimsy cardboard valises — contained thousands of negatives of pictures that Robert Capa, one of the pioneers of [...]
This is week six and I have managed to lose 18 pounds. I’ve been weighing myself at the gym every two weeks–I only manage to get to the gym every two weeks. I had been 191 pounds for many months; now I’m at 173. Eighteen pounds. The point of this story is that if you [...]
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