The Snooze Button Generation

Maybe Chief Wahoo has always been cursed! It's interesting in my lifetime that I have changed my feelings and view of Chief Wahoo. T...

What the hell is going on here? My Tribe — the team that I follow religiously day in and day out — is one game away from the World Serie...

The house wasn't too bad. You could probably move in, if you wanted. But we knew there were things we'd like to do, and it's...

Ask anyone what the "greatest" rock band ever is, and the person will probably answer The Beatles. That's a fair and corre...

During the first night of my stay in Cleveland this summer, my mom wore a T-shirt that said "All One People." This was not an ...

Religion and politics. I've heard those are two topics to avoid at dinner parties. Sadly, in my world of Southern California, where ...

Goodbye, Long Beach. For the past 18 years, I have lived in Long Beach, Calif. — a gritty, eclectic city in Los Angeles County. But thos...

The RTA bus would pick me up on Turney Road, then go down Broadway though urban decline and eventually reach Public Square. I would get ...

Father's Day. Our championship may come on Father's Day. I could think of no more appropriate day for Cleveland to end its 52-ye...

A peculiar thing happens whenever somebody asks Dina and me where we're from. Dina says she's from Los Angeles. I say one of two t...

Silverman's. That's where it happened in 1984. As a 10-year-old lad, my mom gave me the go ahead to get something at the disco...

I am saddened that one of my favorite TV shows in recent years — "The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story" — will have ...

Craft beer is dead. It's gone the way of grunge rock, and, man, that's a bummer because "corporate rock still sucks." ...

At the birthday party where my oldest daughter turned 6, I sat a miniature kids table with her and two of her friends. The three girls we...

Well, looky, looky here, it's February! I've already heard several people say, "Wow. This year is going so quickly."...

I heard an idea on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" the other day that affected me. The idea is this: Ignorance is a choice....

Happy birthday, XMan. My father would have turned 68 today, had he not passed away in Hilton Head, S.C., in 2011. Phew, man, it's be...

When I heard about the death of Flip Saunders this week, a chill passed through my body. Aww, man, Flip was da man, a real class act, on...