The Duke of Mission Hills said to come over right away. The World Harmonica King was taking a bus up from Horton Plaza "and should be here any minute." The Duke's house, north of Washington …

Sometimes, not always, one expects a pretty lush experience at the porno flicks. In Los Angeles, for example. people are lining up around the block to see Deep Throat, one of the top 2S grossers …

Penetrating vision of life, complexity of plot, depth of characterization — or whatever it is that the movie critics who get quoted in newspaper ads demand for a movie to reach the statue of fiction …

I asked for a dinner of stuffed mushrooms, and was served a visually beautiful dish of dark circlets sitting in white glistening sauce, out of which bean sprouts grew like hair.

"I laid David Bowie! I really did!" The titillated young woman descended a flat-lit escalator at concert's end. Her red and blue streaked hair swirled as she slashed the air with her green ostrich feather. …

Pity the Chinaman. He left the China of the Manchus and the Mandarins and the longfingernailed dowager empresses to find life in California. Coolie labor, they called him in California. And labor he did. "Nowadays, …

Reading George Bernard Shaw's play Getting Married is not a very stimulating experience. The usual Shavian traits are there in oppressive abundance: endless talkiness, poor imitations of Oscar Wilde's drawing room wit, shallow philosophizing, and …

The day started out in confusion. Nixon had ordered a stop to the draft two days before, and I was still going over my orders to report for a physical in Los Angeles. Would I …

In a previous column I suggested that one kind of restaurant which deserves to be the object of review is the "pretentious-enough-to-warrant-some-kind-of-critical-response" establishment, because "the public should not be ripped-off." Calling attention to shortcomings is …

At least the Ceylonese Dancers need not feel neglected. They sold 200 tickets in San Diego before cancellation. Last Saturday a 15-year-old boy set a world weight-lifting record in Balboa Park, and was cheered heartily …

The San Diego County Board of Supervisors has a lot of power here. It holds the purse strings on a budget of $300 million dollars. And it controls the zoning of 90 percent of the …

The grand. gray-stone mansion, isolated in lush English countryside — no greener green anywhere-appears from a postcard-distance to be the sort of setting for fantasies of elegant weekend junkets, given to marking time and making …

Outside of Mr. A’s it’s the best, most exciting meal my girlfriend and I've had in a long time. And Mr. A’s cost us over $30. Mom’s and Pop’s cost $2.80.