by Celia Rivenbark | May 8, 2017 | Weekly Column
Has this happened to you? You go to a party, or maybe you’re just meeting friends for drinks after work, and no sooner have you settled in than someone cheerily announces there will be “no political talk!” This conversation ban is harder...
by Celia Rivenbark | May 1, 2017 | Weekly Column
Whether you’re Democrat, Republican or Exhaustipated (too tired of politics to give a s**t), I think there’s one thing we can all agree on: The recent unexpected barrage of political ads was “too soon.” The one good thing about the...
by Celia Rivenbark | Apr 24, 2017 | Weekly Column
MARALAGO, FLA. — President Donald J. Trump announced today that he will be seeking the advice of a top CIA operative whose work he has admired greatly for four seasons so far on Showtime on Demand. “I believe that when people say mean, really very...
by Celia Rivenbark | Apr 17, 2017 | Weekly Column
Now that President Trump has promised to resuscitate the dying coal industry (“There’s a little black spot on my lung todaaaaay”), what’s next? Mandatory installation of cow-catchers on Amtrak trains? Seems about right. What about...
by Celia Rivenbark | Apr 10, 2017 | Weekly Column
The only upside to the Trump presidency I see is a renewed fire in the belly among those of us of a certain age who haven’t protested in a Very Long Time. At first, we almost mistook the fire for reflux. This renewed passion for politics is here to...
by Celia Rivenbark | Apr 3, 2017 | Weekly Column
I live near the world’s cutest, coolest little independent bookstore. It’s in an old cotton warehouse made hip years ago by the addition of shops selling things like vinyl records, moustache wax, handmade jewelry and incense. Lucky me....
