‘Tis the season of the Jewish-themed musical – at least it is for Michael and me! Two weeks off of our wonderful Fiddler experience, here we are in Washington D.C., and as I scouted around yesterday for an evening cultural excursion I found tickets to see Yentl tonight. The new production features new music by […]

I arrived a few minutes early for a breakfast yesterday, pushing on the restaurant door even though a prominently affixed “Closed” sign remained unflipped.  As I stepped in I was told to sit anywhere, so I picked a table and took a seat, the first patron in the place – Mondays and neighborhood spots don’t […]

As a person with a Japanese American practice, a traditional form of karate that was created in New York by a Japanese American man in 1976, I’m interested in others.  While taiko drums go back hundreds of years into the mists of gods and legends in Japan, according to Wikipedia, the modern ensemble performance variety […]

Yesterday I caught an article that I can no longer find so I won’t cite one (there are plenty of others corroborating the facts out there) on the ongoing labor dispute at the Metropolitan Opera.  It’s quite messy – there are at least 15 different unions at work in the 300 million dollar organization, including the only […]

I go to a hair place in “Boystown,” which is what we call Chicago’s gayborhood in Lakeview, one of two areas of Chicago where gays are overrepresented as a percentage of the residents and visitors compared to our numbers in the general population.   For many years the corner of Roscoe and Halsted therein has been […]