Alexander Pope

The day of my first piano lesson, I picked out "Yankee Doodle," right hand only. It would be insane to start a  beginner with one of Bach's partitas or one of Lizst's Hungarian rhapsodies. One starts simply and progresses by stages as far as one's...

The only “myths” to debunk about Proposition 13 are those promoted by the tax-and-spend lobby and public employee unions, which would like you to believe that the states' landmark 1978 initiative to limit property tax increases has “...

By the time they got to the Holy-Holy-Holy part, the 50 poets and fans who'd assembled for a group reading of Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" had worked up lots of momentum. Voices raised together, arms thrust in the air, people stamped.......

Today in London, a collection of letters from British poet Lord George Byron sold at auction for $459,110.67, exceeding the highest pre-sale estimates by more than $160,000 and selling for more than any other letters or manuscript by a British......

Several La Cañada High School special education students, upset that their teacher, Frank Pace, was being transferred to Foothills School, staged a walking protest on Foothill Boulevard.   Twenty Years Ago Foothills resident Mary Pinola was named...

Have you heard about the "new" Shakespeare play? Well, obviously, it's not exactly new, but a play known variously as "Double Falsehood" or "The Distrest Lovers" is about to officially join the Shakespearean canon after several centuries.A London-based...

Several weeks ago on the picket line, I mentioned to a negotiator for the Writers Guild of America that the absolute worst analysis I've been reading about the strike has come from entertainment lawyers. He laughed and said, "I know." It was no shock...

Esther Jantzen's article, "Literacy begins at home" provides an excellent explanation of what parents can't or won't do by themselves. However, I greatly fear that, unlike Alexander Pope's warning that "a little learning is a dangerous thing," our...

"Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is Man." -- Alexander Pope Want to know thyself better? Gauge your reaction to this car, the Smart Fortwo, a four-wheeled flea built by Smart -- a subsidiary of DaimlerChrysler --...

In "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" love creeps under the door like a vapor. Wrapping its tendrils around Joel (Jim Carrey) and Clementine (Kate Winslet), it ushers the couple into a state of blissful intoxication, before choking off their oxygen...