My favorite beer in the world is an amber ale named Palm Speciale. I spent the better part of three months abroad in its company, savoring every chance to crack open a bottle and get to work on a beverage that would never make its way to my own continent. After returning to California, I [...]

Summer: Enshrined in Americana as the flagship of cookouts, stickball, and dubious water sports, this scorching swindle of a season doesn’t reveal its depressing nature until school is out and you’ve been reduced to a sludgesicle of a working stiff. When I was a carefree political science major in the city of Berkeley, summer was [...]

PICARD: A lot has changed in three hundred years. People are no longer obsessed with the accumulation of “things”. We have eliminated hunger, want, the need for possessions. We have grown out of our infancy. RALPH: You’ve got it wrong. It’s never been about “possessions” – it’s about power. PICARD: Power to do what? The [...]

One of the worst parts of living in Diamond Bar is the absence of a quality slice. Wedged between the franchise oligarchs and Tim Taylor pizzerias of southern California, I face a doughy, mirthless, over salted world where the attachment of “New York” to anything is sure to be an abomination of all parties involved. [...]