Seattle-area tea maven Cinnabar tagged me with this ongoing social-media escapade a year ago, and I'm just now getting around to it ...

Dearest readers: Months since my last entry, and I should apologize. But I won't. In fact, I'll stop doing that. A blog's a b...

I posted this years ago, but the link seems to have perished. This bluesy tune crossed my path again recently, amid an afternoon of pining ...

Brian Vander Ark was always a gracious interview when I was on the beat ( once , twice ), and his band, the Verve Pipe , always possessed a...

Dig these beautiful braziers and more from this blog post (part of a series of instruction and experimental study) about learning to love ...

Found another great tea shop, drank some more superb teas — this time north of San Diego in Del Mar, Calif. The local tea-meetup gathere...

The phrase "Texas tea" refers either to petroleum gushing from a well or to a better-known cocktail cribbed from Yankees . Noneth...

This is the best thing I've seen in a while. The performance-sync is spot-on, the rap is righteous, and I totally agree: nothing fires ...

Academic pursuits recently afforded me the opportunity to cross the equator for the first time. Five days scheduled in Buenos Aires, Argen...

I'm late in celebrating the life of John D. Harney, founder of Harney & Sons , who passed away early in the summer. An early &qu...

An acquaintance writes for Chicagoist and pointed me to this link , a story about how restaurants ruin a simple cup of tea. One can read ...

Lucy Spraggan, a singer on the British "X Factor" show, wrote this moving narrative about the simple things in a couple's lif...

Didn't intend to take the whole summer off, just kinda happened, as life does. Places I drank tea this summer: — On my patio, starin...

Charlie Chaplin enjoying a tea break during filming, surrounded by nymphs of some sort. Just because.

Every now and then, I run into posted recipes for tea soup. The variations are myriad, but the best ones, in my experience, center on green...

John and Yoko met in May 1968, a spring romance. Lennon was a regular tea drinker. One of my favorite details of the film "Two of Us...

In what looks to be at least partially and unintentionally hilarious, yet another biopic of Rikyu has been made. Based on the 2008 novel Ri...

Years ago, I monkeyed with tea-dying fabrics — with varying results. At first, I couldn't figure out what the attraction was to taking ...

At long last, I'm growing tea. Unable to find the special varietals created for San Diego's particular climate, I ordered a Soc...

Magazine recommendation: Imbibe . It's a well-made, well-edited bimonthly for discriminating lushes like myself, but it doesn't ski...