POSTED // May 22,2013 - Yogi Berra was right: It is déjà vu all over again. After a 16-year absence from this column, I’ve now had four submissions accepted—an honor not lost on me, especially as it comes nearly four years into my return to City Weekly.

POSTED // May 16,2013 - When Chicago Cubs second baseman “Ryno” Sandburg was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2005, he told the audience, “I didn’t play the game right because I saw a reward at the end of the tunnel. I played the game right because that’s what you’re supposed to do: Play it right and with respect.”

POSTED // May 8,2013 - In two weeks' time, I'll be leaving the building as editor of City Weekly.

POSTED // May 1,2013 - A woman had fallen through the caving-in floor—that’s what we were told after the encore. The floor over the orchestra pit at the Bijou Theatre in Knoxville, Tenn., couldn’t stand the weight of the sweaty, spinning mosh

POSTED // Apr 24,2013 - As I move into my 63rd year on this spherical space rock, I’m becoming ever more aware that humans—the bottom-dwelling, technologically enabled, pinnacle predators in this planet’s air ocean—aren’t as different from one another as certain artificial dividers like political parties, corporate brands, national borders or even religious affiliation would have us believe.

POSTED // Apr 17,2013 - In 1971, Chris Fonnesbeck joined a handful of picketers in front of LDS Church headquarters. A self-described “bearded, hippie-looking guy,” he carried a sign that read “Save the Coalville Tabernacle.”

POSTED // Apr 3,2013 - My late uncle had a saying that always made me laugh. “I’m going out among ’em,” he would declare, usually as we were piling into the car heading to a sporting event.

POSTED // Mar 20,2013 - A white business executive on a recent flight to Atlanta slapped a 19-month-old black boy and called him the N-word. He was charged with assault and subsequently fired from his job.

POSTED // Mar 6,2013 - Let’s begin with a couple of questions: 1. What non-native, invasive species is killing off animals in the Florida Everglades?

POSTED // Feb 27,2013 - I am wary of people who hold their iPhone as if it were a rosary, and I steer clear of those whose phone is always at the ready.