Every goddamn day: 07/15/25

     My wife asked if I wanted to cover the mirrors. A Jewish tradition in a house of mourning. At first I said no. Many pressing practical ...

  So is this the close-but-no-cigar Vermeer?     Odd. I'm a certified art museum buff. We're members of the great Art Institute of C...

       My attention was drawn to three jets of water shooting out high atop a building being constructed on Hudson Street in Jersey City. At...

                                 John James Audubon's Washington Sea Eagle is a magnificent bird. But there is a problem with it.     I...

      Not everybody I wrote an obit about was famous. Some of my favorites were about exceptional-though-unheralded — I almost said "or...

      The approach for this obit came about because Tim Weigel was my friend too -- we bonded over our mutual love of cigars, smoked togethe...

         Fame fleets, and as big a radio broadcaster as Paul Harvey certainly was, his name has faded considerably. I remember him because I...