This picture — of a good friend and his infant son — suggests humans fear heights from a very early age. After all, Bill and his one-year-old are on a balcony 14 stories above Michigan Ave. in Chicago. So do infants have an innate fear of heights? It turns out they do not, reports New Scientist. […]
Read MoreHow tell you’re in Phoenix
The heat is one significant indication. So are the thousands of people who jam area baseball fields during spring training. And, I suppose, pistol-packing denizens also suggest that you’re at least in Arizona. But really nothing says the American Southwest like a towering cactus. (P.S. I snapped this image while on a retreat with a […]
Read MoreA look at Polish cities
If you look at the pictures I took with my iPhone in Warsaw, Poznan and Krakow and then looked at my wife’s, you’d be forgiven for thinking we took separate vacations. She takes beautiful images of buildings and scenery while I shoot people on the street, like the accordion player I spotted as I emerged […]
Read MoreI’ll take the compliment
Comsumerist.com’s Chris Morran discovered my article about writing an online review and kindly shared it with his audience, saying, ” . . . former restaurant critic David Farkas provides a very useful list of suggestions for how restaurant diners can make their online reviews more relevant and helpful to other consumers.” Thanks, Chris!
Read MoreWriting restaurant criticism
I’m no longer a restaurant critic, alas. Come to think of it, that might make some chefs and operators happy. I wasn’t a cruel reviewer, however; I was (or tried to be) an informed one. Which meant making sure that readers understood if I (and they) were getting their money’s worth of food and service. […]
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