Now I ask you - wasn't it worth the wait?

The sounds of bittersweet Italian folktunes filled the air last night, Tuesday, at La Posta, as we joined our friends Ralph and Ray for our end-of-the-year feast. Wild mushrooms in parchment, grilled yellow-fin on a buttery puree of cecci topped with toasted...

I scored a couple of these laugh-til-you-cry terracotta busts with Barry Obama's face at the Scotts Valley K-Mart while delivering cookies to my Auntie Da. Chortling so hard I could barely grasp my credit card to pay, I whisked them back home and wrapped up one to...

"Oscar bait!" some have said. "Dazzling!" Who are they talking about? What planet have they come from?  Did they see the same Black Swan that I did? —  the new film by Darren Aronofsky, whose past work (Requiem for a Dream, The Wrestler) skates the same...