Cherrypicked stories

The year is 51AD. The British warrior king Caratacus has been captured and paraded through Rome. Unexpectedly he is granted clemency by the emperor Claudius. Now he prepares for his new life far from the dense forests and marshes of his homeland.

April 2020 Window One. Rain streaks make it hard for me to see, so I grab the binocs and catch a glimpse of Amelia Jones’ bright red overcoat as she...

The cafe has a downstairs that not a lot of people know about because it feels like you're going down into the stockroom. I once had a relationship...

Delaney’s was sprinkled with its usual mid day barstool denizens: Mel, Joey, and an assortment of guys who just got fired. “What can I get you ladies...

A kerfuffle in my hometown. (Image Attribution: Geoff Royle)

I learned something from @LevParikian (Twitter's premier Twitcher if you're interested in birds) this morning. So, as is my wont, I went off on a tangent and wrote this. Image licence is CC-BY SA2.5 source Wikipedia photographer Andreas Trepte.

She was wonderful to us – always dressed to the nines and often in a fur coat, beautifully made up and scented; she was called ‘A lady of the night’, my parents said, which meant that she was up in the west end a lot...

Just North of Times Square and a little further uptown from Tin Pan Alley is where I met the Manassas Mauler, Jack Dempsey. Before Joe Louis, before...