For more than 30 years, Jean Bishop has dressed up in an eye-catching bumblebee costume as a way to gain attention for her fundraising efforts for Age UK, a British charity that offers a host of services to the country’s elderly. Her sunny demeanor and energetic, award-winning fundraising efforts —…
The Stranger Before Christmas
Heading back to England tomorrow for a two-week trip to the home country. While there, I’m hoping to do one more interview before Christmas Day. That’ll help me hit my self-imposed goal of doing at least one interview a month in 2014. That interview is meant to take place on…
Interview 68: Chatting With Caecilia
My 68th dinner is now online! This is my meal with Caecilia Kay. She’s a single mother living in Maryland with a dream of one day being a communications and public relations professional. She’s on medical disability at the moment, so trying to find the right balance between coping with…
National Lager Day
A little late in the evening for this, but today is apparently National Lager Day in the United States. If only it could be a public holiday, then I might be able to get fully behind it. I discovered this fact while browsing the multiple daily updates that New Orleans…
All Are Welcome
Michael Wilkinson is one of the founders of Washington, DC-based pizza restaurant company Pete’s New Haven Style Apizza. Back in 2009, he let me into Pete’s Columbia Heights restaurant to learn all about how he got involved in the business — and I even got to try my hand a…
Interview 67: Brobson’s Big Easy
Brobson Lutz moved to New Orleans decades ago to study medicine at Tulane University, and has stayed ever since. For years he’s lived in the French Quarter, enjoying the sights, sounds, and tastes of everything that the Big Easy has to offer. With a Southern drawl and an easygoing charm,…
Black & Gold: Encore
New Orleans-based t-shirt company Storyville is taking entries through Nov. 23 for its latest monthly contest to design a tee. November’s theme is “Black & Gold: Encore” — a second chance to craft a t-shirt dedicated to the primary colors of the city’s football team the Saints. I interviewed Storyville’s…
Interview 66: Storytelling With Stephen Tobolowsky
Click here or on the picture below for part two of my two-part interview with character actor and storytelling writer Stephen Tobolowsky, which took place at a diner in Los Angeles. In the first part, Stephen shared anecdotes about his extensive acting career. In the second part, he describes how…
Interview 66: Stephen Tobolowsky’s Adventures
Stephen Tobolowsky knows how to tell a story. And he’s got many of them to share. The character actor — perhaps best known for his role as overbearing insurance salesman Ned Ryerson in Groundhog Day — was happy to talk during a lengthy breakfast last month in Los Angeles. In…
Interview 65: Meeting Michael Hitchcock
If you’ve seen the television show Glee, or any of Christopher Guest’s fake documentary comedies, or pretty much any big TV show or movie in the last few decades, then you’ve seen Michael Hitchcock’s work as an actor and writer. Michael, who lives in Los Angeles, is currently hard at…