I was very happy to learn a few weeks ago that Dennis Scholl was joining Knight Foundation’s permanent staff as the Miami program director, not least because he cares very much about the food and wine communities and is a wine importer (half of the Betts & Scholl powerhouse that I first read about in [...]

Jem is my favorite cartoon character for at least three reasons: she has pink hair, transforms into a rock star with the help of her computer named Synergy, and she’s truly outrageous (truly, truly, truly outrageous). My office seemed to think so too, and I arrived in costume at the airport (a strange place on [...]

The poetry world is rather upset this week about the “pirated poetry anthology” Issue 1, published as a .pdf (3,785 pages) by Stephen McLaughlin and Jim Carpenter. A Kristen Taylor is included, and her poem on page 104 is titled “Coats made without courage”. I find the project amusing and imagine the editors rounded out [...]

In which I talk about a food product—acknowledging that Michael Pollan says plants, not products—that I hate to love (even more than this terrible screenshot below): What do you think about goji berries? Do you share my unlocal superfood guilt? My love for the Gummi Bears? (Guess what color gummi berries have to be in [...]