Gershwin-Heyward-Gershwin probably doesn’t appear on as many records as Holland-Dozier-Holland, but they wrote a killer opera and libretto called Porgy and Bess in 1934. Fast forward to 1968, when a somewhat blowsy 25-year-old blues singer from Texas recorded one of the trio’s strongest songs from that production. The result was this: I’ve always loved the …
She was way off to the east of us 10 days ago. She moved north and stayed north, but she didn’t disappear. Now she’s hanging around as a tropical storm and stealing all our tradewinds. It’s hot, it’s humid, and it’s not fit for man nor beast. Look at her. She’s just loitering.
My local Safeway has a bakery which regularly turns out delicious cookies and pastries and breads and rolls and so forth. For years part of Mom’s everyday lunch has been two of its bakers’ oatmeal raisin cookies. They’re great. They are packaged in a big square plastic tray with a clear lid similar to this. …
I went out the door this afternoon to head for the library and an enormous thunderclap went off overhead. We had a bunch of rain and thunder and excitement there for a while. The Fire Department went to the building management of this place and suggested the tenants close up shop early today. A friend …
Scenes in an imaginary confessional: Me: Bless me, Mr. Shortz, for I have sinned. Me: Even for me, what I did today in a doctor’s office was unpardonable. Yessiree Bob, I’m downright ashamed of myself. Shortz: Goodness, man, what did you do? Me: I worked on a crossword puzzle at the back of a The …
Jimena: View Ignacio: View How many more of these are going to take aim at us this season? (Click to enlarge)