I was standing on the porch talking to my Mom on the phone last Wednesday
when she told me she was going to a Seder, which is the Passover dinner.  Imagine my shock!  As a lonely, lonely Jew in Texas, these holidays always get me by surprise.  And that’s the worst thing because Passover is the [...]

It’s SXSW, and the city is abuzz as I pull into the lot at Torchy’s Tacos.  I park my car up against a hay bale and step into the Texas sun.  We’ve been trying to put this lunch together for weeks, and finally here we are, about to savor what are arguably the best tacos [...]

Last Friday, after a stop at our roasters to practice latte art, Lucy and I met up with 2 friends and drove to Hamilton Pool.  Given the beauty of the day, it was no surprise that the beach was crowded, with families and all the beach toys and chaos that accompany them, with teenagers on [...]

For anyone not familiar, Master Pancake Theater is a comedy team working out of the Alamo Drafthouse, that mocks iconic movies.  They put up mostly beloved, cliched, deeply flawed movies and then tear them to pieces.  I’m always happiest when they do movies that I hate myself for loving (like E.T., The Breakfast Club, and [...]