XXXII. IV: THE de FICHEY CODE A story by Sebastian Gerard 1 2 5 2 Anno Domini During the Eighth Crusade, under the leadership of France’s beloved Louis IX,…
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Before she died of a heart attack in 1961 Anna May Wong had “died a thousand deaths” on screen. As America’s first Asian lady of the movies, Wong was…
It didn’t seems to matter much to George Bush, or to American’s in general, that the president’s insistence on giving China’s president Mr. Hu Jintao a “luncheon” rather than a…
“And this year’s recipient of ‘The Janey’ is ————-.” Many years ago, when I directed the Masters Program in City Planning at SDSU, I instituted an award…
I discovered a new restaurant recently. Not much of a restaurant, really, but closer to an Asian deli. Vietnamese fast-food. They are wonderful Vietnamese fillings in freshly-baked French…
Listen for it as a Grammy winner next year, an MP3 download, and maybe as the soundtrack for a movie of the week on Fox—the cell phone tapes from passengers…
I have often wondered where my interest and fascination with cities came from. I remember that I liked playing touch football in the street, But other kids, like little…
In earlier essays on eating foreign food I concentrated on my personal tastes and distastes. This second part of a “taste for travel” recounts my experience as a tour…
Many years ago I read a book about military technology from the crossbow to the H-Bomb. It advanced the position that, other things being equal, the guys with the…
A while back, in the Carpe Diem section of this journal I repeated and commented upon a Reuters news item that a Chinese government facility had been pressured to desist…