“Supergirl” falls flat at the box office
Disjointed pacing, a subpar script, and a less-than-soaring score scuttle DCU's newest superhero movie. Read Stewart J. Lawrence's postmortem before you hit the theaters.
Memories of spring in old Salento
We waited all winter long for the first warm of spring to chase away the chill. There’s a lot of [...]
Review: The Awakening
Originally published in 1899, The Awakening by Kate Chopin is an early exploration of abandoned conventions, feminist agency, and perceived [...]
Love in vain
The marriage between my parents dissolved after 13 years. Love in vain? Love misunderstood? Love become intolerance? No doubt all [...]
A Father’s Day re-do
Father’s Day is just around the corner, but the nation’s marketers won’t be pushing you to shop for Dear Old [...]
Happy half-century
I turned fifty last week, and the next morning, I got a text from CVS advertising the shingles vaccine. “Happy [...]
Photoessay: Earth Day
While waiting in the lavatory line, during a trans-Atlantic flight from Paris to New York in April, I was [...]
Ford’s brush with death in SF
While our city does not have the equivalent of the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) Dinner, it did stage an [...]
Making dough with dough
Years ago when I picked up my grandmother’s blue mixing bowl and my mother’s favorite spoon, which had a hole [...]
Hong Kong attraction, part 6
We didn’t stay in one place for long. During that first stretch at the Mandarin, I tried to write while [...]
A tale of two campaigns
Democratic socialist Nithya Raman was supposed to be the “next” Zohran Mamdani, laying siege to the Democratic establishment of Los [...]