Author: Jay Ruud
Elizabeth Spires’ “Easter 1955”
Carol Ann Duffy’s “Medusa”
Osaka Japanese Hibachi Steakhouse
Review No. 196: Osaka Japanese Hibachi Steakhouse 1700 Altus St., Suite 105 (501) 358-6023 The SituationHe Said: She Said was in the middle of a huge work project and had no time to think about eating at home, so we figured we might as well do a review as long as we were forced to eat… Continue reading Osaka Japanese Hibachi Steakhouse
“They Wouldn’t Be the Cubs if They Didn’t Break Your Heart”: Faith and Futility on Chicago’s North Side
“The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It’s been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game—it’s a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good,… Continue reading “They Wouldn’t Be the Cubs if They Didn’t Break Your Heart”: Faith and Futility on Chicago’s North Side
William E. Stafford’s “Traveling Through the Dark”
Lord Byron’s “The Destruction of Sennacherib”
Yeats’s “An Irish Airman Foresees His Death”
El Portal del Gusto
Review No. 195: El Portal del Gusto 120 Harkrider Street (501) 205-9690 The SituationShe Said: I had evening focus groups in Little Rock one Monday evening—and I can’t eat too close to them and it’s too late to eat after them when they finish—so I wanted a big, comforting lunch, and I figured a local Mexican… Continue reading El Portal del Gusto
