I’m heading to New Orleans for a holiday next week, so let me know if you live in the city and want to do a dinner interview. I’ve got one interview lined up so far in the Big Easy but always looking for new strangers to meet. Also, I updated…
Interview 18: Addressing The “A” Word
Time for another dinner interview? Yes it is! That’s Mary Ann Sorrentino, a former director of Planned Parenthood in Rhode Island. She remains a fierce abortion rights advocate, but there is so much more to her history. She’s had more careers than most people experience in a lifetime, all of…
Mother’s Day Redux
Ah, Americans, always late to the party. Mother’s Day was two months ago in England. Nevertheless I’ll appropriate the American version of the celebration to wish my mum a great day. But I got her a gift in March, so she better not think I’m springing for two presents. Anyway,…
Interview 17: Designing Woman
A new dinner interview? Is it Christmas? No, of course not, we’re only just in May, you fool. But never mind all that. Click right here to read the 17th dinner with a stranger. This time round I was in Providence to interview graphic design student Robin Tafel.
Divine Providence
That’s a photo of me posing awkwardly with the city of Providence in the background. What a fine place Providence is. Last weekend was my first trip to Rhode Island, where I conducted four interviews for this site and enjoyed all of them. No disasters, no arguments, just good company,…
Rhode Island Is Famous For…You?
Next month I’ll be in Providence, Rhode Island, for a weekend break. On the off chance you’re browsing the Internet and a) stumble upon this site, 2) are from Providence and iii) want to do a dinner interview during the weekend of Friday April 23 to Sunday April 25, click…
More Margarita
Margarita Pracatan, the Cuban singing sensation with a better grasp on joie de vivre than your average French person, remains one of my favorite strangers interviewed for this site. I first saw her back in the UK in the mid-1990s on a television show hosted by raconteur/author/critic/everyman Clive James, and…
Ben On The Mend
Time for some good news. Apparently Ralph Archbold, Philadelphia’s most well-known Benjamin Franklin impersonator, is on the mend following his stroke last year. Regular readers of this site (hello mum and dad) will know that a little under a year ago I interviewed Ralph over dinner in the City of…
Interview 16: Tea With Teresa
Today’s dinner with a stranger is actually brunch with a stranger. But I felt that “Brunching With Strangers” was an awkward title for a website, so I’m going to say that, technically, the meal I had counts as a dinner. Right? Right. Anyway, by clicking here you can read about…
Delayed Festivities
Here’s the third and final (mercifully, I’m sure) video of Margarita Pracatan and I attempting various festive songs. I know it’s a little out of date. This time round we’re singing “Feliz Navidad” with two key elements. First, we’d had quite a lot of wine by this point. Second, neither…