Views by the Bay

The popular bacon maple bar After the Taco Bell on Norfolk St. closed , I half-expected its building to be torn down, reconfigured to ac...

One of the alumni of Jon Stewart's The Daily Show , John Oliver discusses the FBI vs. Apple controversy over breaking into a terrorist...

The Economist - it's easier to become a billionaire in Asia than the USA : The American dream of going from rags to riches appears more...

( pinterest image) Despite its long-comings, the German language has words that describe some concepts perfectly. Schadenfreude (...

The black drapery of Good Friday has been removed. White, the liturgical color of Easter, is everywhere. Mourning is over. Welcome, ...

My friend, John Keast , died suddenly and peacefully on Wednesday in Santa Cruz. Many in his far-flung family weren't there to say good...

Andy Warhol’s “Do It Yourself (Violin)” (1962) is non finito , i.e., intentionally unfinished (Economist image) Unfinished paintings, un...

In Hollywood's greatest musical a key plot point occurs on March 24th . Early that morning actor Don Lockwood (Gene Kelly) realizes tha...

A study has confirmed common sense--marital happiness is dependent upon expectations: having high standards only makes people more satis...

Apple's HQ (Rendering from the Economist 1843 Magazine ) Like some nouveau riche who distance themselves from their humble backgrou...

Emma Thompson won the Best Actress Oscar in 1992 for Howards End. Actress Emma Thompson, on reading for the audiobook of Henry James...

Throughout Holy Week churches recite the Passion of Jesus. Today the congregation read Luke's Gospel, in which the Roman centurion obs...

( American Senior Communities image) An optimistic outlook seems to reduce the likelihood of acquiring Alzheimer's Disease. In a g...

For last night's St. Patrick's Day dinner our in-house advocate of organic ingredients insisted on buying everything at the local ...

The ancient Okidata laser printer refused to print. The error codes on the primitive liquid crystal display insisted that the cartridges, f...