One good thing about the start of another interminable NBA season–have you got your tickets for the league finals? In June?–is that we get to read the LA Times Mark Heisler write on basketball. Heisler is simply one of the best, and he is always great when giving advice to hapless NBA franchises. Until recently, [...]

Local food writer Russ Parsons knows how to pick ‘em

PHOTO by MATT FUKUSHIMA
Like many of us who ride to and from our day jobs on the Passport, I usually have my nose stuck in a book. But it wasn’t until I picked up Wrigley resident Russ Parsons’ How to Pick a Peach: The Search for [...]

Remember Michael Moore’s thesis in Bowling For Columbine as to why Americans are so violent—we’re scared out of our frigging minds. Well, we wake up this morning to find out all we have to fear is fear itself. And hospitals. And freeway tunnels. And staph infection superbugs. And AIDS—though not as much as staph infection [...]