Anthony Mariani
Holidays 2023
We get it. Not everyone digs the holidays. I kinda don’t. The biggest reason is probably that my family buried our 63-year-young father on...
Raw-Dogging Life
I was about 10 feet in the air when I felt the contents of my lower intestine begin to force their way through the...
Creature Comforts 2023
Sad story: I never had a pet growing up. I badly wanted one, a big, fluffy German Shepherd to be exact, but since my...
Welcome to the Summer Edition 2023
It’s summer, so make sure to keep the thermostats at a crisp, cool 78 degrees to prevent our grid from collapsing — again. Thank you....
Teams Effort
As I let loose with an honest “What the fuck are you doing?!,” I snatched the pencil from my son’s hand and began to...
Summer Sights and Stages
In the Pleistocene Era (circa 2010), when flip phones were unironic, most museums and theaters essentially took summers off, reserving blockbusters for the fall...
Should I Stay, or Should I … I’ll Stay
Hotels and B&B’s are great, but if the inflation that’s gripping the globe is too much, there’s always one place where you’re King and...
Music Awards Winners
The good news: I didn’t puke. The bad: I spent about a million dollars at the bar.
And that’s a million dollars that I, the...
Holidays Under the Lights
Get Nutty One Last Time
It’s been a staple of the season for over a decade. Texas Ballet Theater’s pop-culture sendup will take its final...
Winter Wonderlands
Edge of the Road, Pahdner
What could be less Christmasy than the American West? The place where people go to snow ski and, I dunno,...
