Last week was Fleet Week in San Francisco. The most obvious element is the weekend air show, featuring the Blue Angels.
I grew up among martial displays–air shows, uniforms, decommissioned jets and other combat vehicles sprinkled around military installations like garden statues. But I still get a kind of thrill seeing the Blue Angels and other [...]
I’ve run into parades by chance in several places, including a Shriners parade in New Hampshire, a children’s parade through Quepos, Costa Rica, and the St. Patrick’s Day Parade in New York City. In the picture above, a band pauses during a parade in New Delhi, held as part of the events observing the birthday [...]
Not the primary. Chris Matthews on why San Francisco isn’t a newspaper town:
“It looks like an Eastern city,” he says. “But it’s pretty hard for people to read newspapers when they’re riding a bike.”
From last Sunday’s Times Magazine profile of Matthews. One of the funnier pieces of reporting I’ve read in any magazine. Mark Leibovich [...]
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 E. 50th. Although the occupations of the regulars comes as a surprise (advertising, television cameraman, programmer) and doesn’t [...]
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Speaking at the Greenbuild International Forum in Boston. 18 November 2008.
