The Five

Tucked away on top of a mountain in Marin County sits an amphitheater where Mountain Play celebrates 100 years of outdoor theater this season. The golden grassy hills of Marin are alive ...

In the Land of the Free, summer is the season for swimming, back yard barbecues, fireworks, and displays of unabashed patriotism. Americans swell with national pride, and meat products, as they salute ...

Pan Am put the first 747 into service in January of 1970, inaugurating more-or-less officially the modern travel era. Unless you’re, well, old, you’ve lived your whole life in a ...

It had been on my mind for several weeks but it finally crystallized up in the mountainous countryside outside Busan. When my friend and I started our ascent it was a humid ...

The other day I found myself sitting alone in a café. It is one of my guilty pleasures—to sit with a good cup of coffee, a scone, all alone with myself ...

Marni Kinrys is a woman who puts her insider knowledge to good use for the betterment of all men by telling them what women REALLY want, not what they say they want ...

What is existentialism? The word makes appearances in pop culture from time to time, two examples that come to mind are Wes Anderson’s screen adaptation of Roald Dahl’s The Fantastic ...

It's strangely queer that you could sample a hundred random people, and not one of them would immediately volunteer for singing in front of a bunch of drunk idiots. But Jesus ...

The first time I heard the name was as an undergrad in Ben Stavis’s China: Politics and Revolution course. Professor Ben Stavis was first and foremost a tweed wearing Sinophile of ...

With a powerful, universal theme, David Foster Wallace’s This is Water makes us think—consciously, day-in and day-out. He proposes living a “compassionate life.”—a theme worth revisiting on a daily ...