A Fort Made of Books

Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov saved my life. And here I am nearly 30 years later, trying to make a long story short so that I can move...

This past week, the ELCA Temple of Tackiness in my neighborhood has been advertising the following lighted-sign slogan: A HUG IS THE GREATES...

I love movies, and I love food. Sometimes, not often, both of these loves can be combined into one experience. But short of licking the scre...

To what shall I compare the kingdom of God? It is--if you will pardon a frankly gruesome illustration--like unto Frankenstein's monster....

Tonight I went to the Symphony and heard Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos do his first St. Louis gig since 1985. The Spanish-born, ethnically Germ...

I've been commuting two hours a day for the past year, during which time the only classical-music radio station I am equipped to receive...

I haven't been back to see Harry Potter 7 again. Don't worry, I'm not that obsessed. But I've been thinking about the time ...