James Lileks, speaking of the Bedford Falls where George Bailey never existed: I still think Pottersville would have been a great place to visit if you had a three-day pass from the Army. Is it just me, or does our modern world far more resemble...

I'm a bit chagrined at being a week late with this item, but then I still haven't written anything for Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson, or Patrick Swayze, so what's a mere seven days for an actor few of my readers will probably recognize? Even so, I've...

Somewhere in the vast and dusty recesses of the fabulous Bennion Archives, I've got a cache of old Science Digest magazines from the early '80s. I subscribed for a time in middle school, or, more accurately, my parents subscribed me, first as a...

Well, this sucks: it seems the Orient Express, the famed Paris-to-Istanbul train that's been the setting of so many fictional mysteries and thrillers, will cease operation as of this Monday. Like so many other relics of a more elegant age, it's been...

When I was in San Francisco last year, I did what every tourist with the slightest literary pretension does in that town: I stopped by the famed City Lights Bookstore and bought a copy of Jack Kerouac's On the Road. It's one of those classics I've...