Travel Blog

While in Seattle I had the great honor and pleasure of appearing on Nancy Pearl's "Book Lust": http://www.seattlechannel.org/BookLust?videoid=x91504

32 East is closing its doors, after almost 30 years on Atlantic Avenue in Delray Beach, to be replaced by Louie Bossi's.

For years my complaint about Ft. Lauderdale was that practically every new restaurant was an Italian restaurant. Now something more irritating is happening in South Florida: practically every new restaurant is an already existing restaurant. It used to be that every main street had to have a Kilwin's; now apparently each will have a Louie Bossi's, a Rocco's Tacos, and whatever the local iteration of Big City Tavern is. In the age of diversity, South Florida - at least its culinary scene - is embracing uniformity.  

Facebook's sharing of users' personal information was as wrong as users' assumptions of privacy were naive.

I have liked Jimmy Kimmel since he was the funny if often clueless sidekick on Win Ben Stein’s Money. And I find it interesting, if a bit depressing, that the former co-host of The Man Show is now the most mature, or at least the least manic, of the late-night talk show hosts.

But his dig at the First Lady was a misstep, and made me wonder why it is that the Americans who make fun of foreigners’ accents in English are almost always people who’ve never struggled with a second language.

The sign on the fence surrounding the newly cleared lot on SW 6th Street reads: ALPHA Wrecking - "We Break It Better."

Perhaps Trump's gift from the American people to Kim Jong-un could be an "I'm with stupid" T-shirt.