Add to your list of museums to spawn outrage : The Confederate Museum in Charleston, South Carolina. As one Yelp reviewer aptly put it:

About 16 years ago I was fortunate enough to be able to visit the Black Museum after speaking at a seminar for British police at Scotland yard. The display area was very unassuming, just kind of a big room with some display cases, some framed stuff on walls, but a lot of stuff just sitting on tables —I remember one…

My father grew up on the outskirts of Boston in a largely white, blue-collar neighborhood in the 1920’s. In the late eighties I took him to a fancy restaurant in Los Angeles that was serving the then all so trendy and “new” dish of steamed mussels with some sort of sauce. Since he was raised by the seashore I asked…

I loved Tinseltown. And the Kitty Genovese book was a real surprise —taking an event we thought we knew, and putting a new spin on it based on intensive research. A great story.

My teenage daughter was jogging on the sidewalk along Mid-Wilshire in Los Angeles (wide sidewalk and very few pedestrians) and had an LAPD officer yell at her “Slow down or I’ll give you a ticket!” I don’t think that running on the sidewalk is illegal.

But we know a 13 year old is really the best script consultant.

I learned to drive in a 1972 280 SEL 4.5 that my dad bought new for around 10 grand. Still the best handling car I have ever driven for its size. Quick acceleration, precise, responsive steering I still judge all other cars by, flat when powering through curves (as opposed to his later 76 and 78 Cadillacs which…