Nobody’s out to bad-mouth underperforming restaurants during a pandemic, shutdown or otherwise, so I’m not here to name names. But I will say that we took the family out to try out a new to …
December 11, 2020
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USS Bonhomme Richard to be repurposed as dive-in museum of recent Naval history
“People love visiting the Midway Museum, and why not?” asks Navy spokeswab James Portside. “It rightly celebrates our Navy’s great achievements. But as the recent burning of the Bonhomme Richard makes clear, our recent past …
December 11, 2020
The best of Mae West
This week we go West, Mae West, for a pair of saucy comedies: one’s pre-code, the other isn’t. She Done Him Wrong (1933) Across town at 20th Century Fox, it was child superstar Shirley Temple …
December 11, 2020
Confirmed report of Mayor Faulconer eating solitary Thanksgiving meal propels him to front-runner status for California governor
“Honestly, it started as a joke,” says Mayor Faulconer of his solitary, microwaved repast on Thanksgiving day. “After Governor Newsom went to that big party at the French Laundry, then fudged about it being an …
December 11, 2020
Bishop McElroy stresses need for cooperation with Catholic president-elect, despite differences
The Catholic Church teaches that abortion is “gravely contrary to the moral law,” that formal cooperation in an abortion results in excommunication, and that “the law must provide appropriate penal sanctions for every deliberate violation …
December 11, 2020
Mongaku: strident defender of Esoteric Shingon Buddhism
Mongaku Needless to say, Buddhism, like other religions, helps to extirpate evil and to bring good fortune. Throughout its history in three countries, there are records of answers to prayer and of benefits received. If …
December 11, 2020