… into George W. Bush’s reign of incompetence, I still find myself asking the question, “How did this brain-dead imbecile come to be [...]

Mine changes from week to week. Today, it happens to be the loquat, a fruit indigenous to China that came to California in [...]

It’s impossible to understand the long-lived mystique of Ye Olde Route 66 without chomping down on a good bit of historical Americana. These [...]

Photasmic— A pair of magnifying glasses is tacked to the wall with strings. One can be used to examine David Hoyt’s “Yin,” the [...]

Why are most new bicycles so freakin’ ugly? It’s one of those mysteries of nature. I recently bought a ’50s-era junker from a [...]

So, I used the fancy new parking meters lined along Central Downtown for the first time yesterday. As I was struggling to slide [...]

Here’s a possible explanation for Zidane’s bizarre behavior in the last few minutes of yesterday’s World Cup final. Looks like the stories about [...]

So, one minute it’s a sunny 85 degrees and I’m swimming in a cool dark pool on the east fork of the Jemez [...]

Here in New Mexico, we’re used to swimming up to our necks in folk art. From traditional punched tin and Catholic religious pieces [...]