What weddings are, and notI was at a wedding the other day. A cousin was getting married. We drove over to this nice hotel in the morning. Banquet tables were laid out in the customary 10-seat arrangement in a well-lit, sparsely ventilated reception hall. A traditional Poruwa stood in one end of the hall, ready to...

Some friends dragged me to the Brava Theater in the Mission on Friday evening to watch a live version of The Allusionist, the podcast by Helen Zaltzman all about language. The evening was entirely perfect and I immediately felt guilty for not having listened to her podcast before. Everything about it is funny and...