Growing up in 1980s L.A., I probably slid into the smooth red booths of Du-par’s restaurant at the Original Farmers Market a hundred times for weekend lunches with my grandmother. It’s where I tried ...

The historic Hotel Du Pont in downtown Wilmington, Delaware is humming these days with business and leisure guests, wedding parties, and fine dining habitués. And as reported in this last post, it’s ...

He was the local loon. We didn’t call him that, of course. He had buckets of money, and he was our neighbor, so we were polite. He was simply “odd.” He bought a replica police car, put on a uniform, ...