Tom West

It’s not even been a week since we found out LeBron James is now a Philadelphia 76er, and the impact of his arrival is already starting to go beyond what he’ll be doing on the basketball court — just as you’d expect. There’s also how he plans to tell the ... See more

Triple threats: Foreign, domestic and otherworldly Once again, the Orinda Theatre has recalled those good old days when there were repertory houses which showed all manner of films, giving us lucky Lamorindites a wide variety of movies to enjoy and learn ... See more

Trinity Audioplayer ready... My favorite class in college years ago was experimental psychology. In one upper division course, we could devise our own experiment as a semester’s project. I was working on trying to demonstrate that a person’s “view of the ... See more

You already have an attention portfolio. The only question is whether you built it yourself—or whether someone else built it for you. “I think, therefore I am…..?” Last week I wrote about what I called the fourth retirement risk: identity. I argued that a... See more

Finding authentic Caribbean food in northern Indiana isn’t exactly easy. So when Piña & Coconut relocated to the former Yamato Steakhouse building in Warsaw, it immediately landed on my list of places to try. My family finally made it over for dinner ... See more