I recently discovered the city of San Francisco and it is truly unlike anything else I’ve seen. It is a lovely city that has everything from great establishments to little “mom and pop shops”, hippies to businessmen, fine art to commercial shopping. Then there are also places in the city that are must-see’s like Fisherman’s Wharf, Haight-Ashbury, the Golden Gate Park, Union Square, Ma...

Kevin was a dark shadow on a street corner in South Congress a block away from an overcrowded costume shop. I felt the need to stop, sit a while amidst the chaos of Halloween night, and relax for once. There’s a magic about street musicians that binds us—we are lulled into their sounds, their voices, yet are too afraid to treat them as mere mortals. They are more mysterious, more mystif...

I was pretty much on vacation from the time I left work at 5P on Fri the 17th. I had spent much of the earlier part of the week packing, so was free to enjoy the evening and thus went to the Director's Guild screening of the new James Bond film (Casino Royale). AWESOME!! Then the next day, I went to the Burbank airport and walked up to the SW airlines counter. I probably fly once about every...

In 1969, desperate to flee my crappy job at a Daitch Shopwell supermarket, I secured a better crappy job in my Yorkville neighborhood. Ben’s Meat O’ Mat was a Mom and Pop Butcher/Grocery store, except there was no Mom or Pop, just two guys named Pete and Harry. They weren’t twins, but they could’ve been. Wearing pork pie hats on top of their giant heads, they resembled Anthony Quinn in ...