by David | Mar 29, 2010 | culture, media
Tonight is the start of Passover, a holiday celebrating the struggle for liberation with foods designed to remind you of suffering and enslavement. At one point in the traditional Seder, participants recite the ten plagues visited on Egypt , spilling out a bit of...
by David | Mar 25, 2010 | culture, eating, urbanism
Ever wonder what the difference between tortellini and tortelloni is? Scale. Stuff with -ini are small and stuff with -oni are large. And you probably know that stuff with -issimo is superlative – biggest, bestest, most expensive, and so forth. So you can...
by David | Mar 20, 2010 | culture, economics, working
Sometimes Boston feels like the city of inferiority complexes. For years it was the Red Sox thing, feeling bad about coming in second to New York in baseball. Now, it seems to be the Silicon Valley thing, coming in second to California in technology companies and...
by David | Mar 7, 2010 | culture, economics, media, reading & writing
As you may know, the first rule of my book club is, well, I can’t tell you the first rule. One of the other rules is, when it’s your turn, you pick the book and that’s the book. No discussion, voting or appeals are needed. Sure, there’s...
by David | Feb 26, 2010 | culture, design
After – way after – a 13th century painting by monk Mu Qi.
by David | Feb 2, 2010 | culture, design
If you squint at it, you can sort of see the bird.
