Every goddamn day: 05/14/26

Fresh challah at Masa Madre, a Mexican Jewish bakery in East Garfield Park, now, sadly, defunct.        True story.       Once I stopped by ...

      So here's the question: if the ideal hot dog is charbroiled — and it is — then why would anybody ever want a hot dog that has been...

      Confession time.      In the years I regularly patronized Gene & Georgetti with my pals, the check was inevitably picked up by som...

      I'm still on vacation. I could have easily extended "Meet my Metaphors" for another week, but thought, "enough alre...

  Uffuzi Gallery        In looking up M.C. Escher references , I reread this column. Note the unashamed pointy-headedness of the opening. Yo...

"Ascending and Descending," by M.C. Escher     When people find out I am that most exotic of beasts, a newspaper columnist, the co...

     Most people leave few traces. An heirloom vase. A nice watch. A self-published family memoir that slumbers in a drawer unread. An amat...