Two new genres for 2012, two examples for each

-Defending the Glamorous: We saw this with the pains a former prof of James Franco took to insist upon the movie star-scholar's academi...

"But Israel was like Christmas: something I’d never do."

Last night, midway through my one and only drink of the evening, a gin martini from which I am recovering today, I got into a discussion wit...

Adam Gopnik Petstoregate

It is now done to mention, even in your standard here-are-cute-dog-photos Internet posting, that a dog has been  rescued . As Rescue Culture...

Insensitive Knick-Knack Week

Your Tucson coverage continues . It's a safe bet that any of the well-shot dramatic landscape photos were taken by one of two astrophysi...

Where every teacher is above average

Teaching (as in, elementary-though-high-school), like any other profession, has pros and cons. Summers off! Low pay. A chance to shape the m...

Hidden gems

In the Gawker comments , of all places, is perhaps the best retort to an anti-Semite... ever? Huh! Backstory: it's in a thread respondin...

Venerable magazine reveals: women are like so

I'm not sure if Simon Rich's recent " Shouts and Murmurs " is  offensive  to women who work in fashion, but if you remove ...