Surrounded on all sides by Tampa, Ybor City is currently incarnated as a shopping and entertainment district. If you’re from Atlanta, think of it as a small-scale Atlantic Station, with bars and restaurants stretched along a picturesque avenue...
A better title for this little bit of cinematic fluff would have been Mission: Improbable. The first few minutes present us with actor Chris Pine (a.k.a. Captain Kirk) as a fresh-faced Marine. The dialogue in this two-minute scene feels rushed...
Storehouse is a new app for iOS that makes telling and sharing visual stories as easy as it possibly could be. The fast, flexible interface takes just seconds to learn. After importing photos, you can drag them into place, tap to select, and size...
I didn’t watch Gilligan’s Island for Gilligan. I watched it for The Professor. Actor Russell Johnson, in character as The Professor, was my first television crush. I liked his haircut. I liked his simple, button-down shirt, open at the...
Image Credit: “Meditation” by Moyan Brenn. Used by permission. Reading David Lynch’s Catching the Big Fish reminded me just how much I miss a daily meditation practice. The only thing between me and a daily meditation practice is...
“If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you’ve got to go deeper.” — David Lynch Catching the Big Fish is a short, readable book on the connection between...
I love my iPad. What if it could love me back? That’s essentially the question at the heart of Her, a meditation on our affection for personal technology and social media … how that technology might evolve … and the unexpected...
Rumors that this movie was almost released with the title Watch Meryl Streep Eat Her Own Babies are patently untrue. That said, everything else about this darkly funny drama *is* true in the most important sense: it feels true. The characters are...
We eat lunch at Hong Kong Harbor. The dining room is a big, dark square packed with tables and lined with ancient booths. The Chinese Man seats us, spins two menus onto the table with a flick of his hand, and asks, “Tea?” We nod...
You’ve ordered a book or a card deck or a television or a washing machine. You’re impatient. You fish through your email until you find the tracking number. You go to FedEx.com. You type in the tracking number, being careful not to...
