Today I saw a twenty-something, otherwise fashionable young woman walking down Barrington Street in a pair of jeans that were loose enoug...

The fascinating principle underlying Zen stories with all their seemingly irrelevant remarks is quite simple. It is all explained in the Sut...

You know what's not really a very funny thing to say to a stranger on an elevator when you've both just come out of the cold wind...

Lately I've been having a lot of dreams. I can tell I've been having them, even though it seems I remember about 10% of them. The...

There's a certain style of abbreviated slang that has recently become very trendy, especially in the related worlds of marketing and cel...

Well, it's that time of year when my sister's three kids all have birthdays within two days of each other. I know, it's crazy. B...

Beck's new album, Morning Phase , is so beautiful I can't stop listening to it. Every time I put it on I have to stop everything t...

Just finished a record review for my friend KC's free monthly coffee shop read, Concrete News . This is the second one I've done for...

Well, I felt quite a bit better today. Who can say what brings on these periods of anguish? They seem to come and go with zero predictabilit...

Can't believe it's been over a week since my last post. And also that I forgot to wish my good friend Carol a happy birthday on the ...

"In order to awaken, first of all one must realize that one is in a state of sleep. And in order to realize that one is indeed in a sta...

I found this astonishing short documentary today. It comes from the New York Times website, where you can also read all about its genesis...

27 years young, as of yesterday. World traveler and militant 1970s poet/lecturer. OK, here's a smiling one.

Ugh. Can't sleep. I think it's too hot in here. I went to bed at 8:30 tonight, exhausted from the night before, when The Reference D...

Reference Desk show coming up this Saturday. Looks like a real winner of a lineup, too. Come one, come all!

Well, so, that dance performance was a little underwhelming. Christina Petrowska Quilico, mind you, was amazing. Such nimble fingers keeping...

I got tickets today to see a dance performance on Friday with Amber. The Toronto Dance Theatre is coming to town to perform Rivers , a piece...

This is really incredible. The artist, Adam Magyar, filmed the platform at the Shinjiku station in Tokyo in high-speed video as his train ...

I just watched Nicole Holofcener's Enough Said on DVD. Missed it in the theatres. It was just as funny and sweet and real as I've c...

ADVERTISEMENT Psychic Fair are releasing our first recording tomorrow night at Gus' Pub. It's a cassette called Bees on Ice — ...