Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

Bassist Romy Brauteseth with two bands at the Bird’s Eye in Basel

Three years of reading Charles Dickens’s novels in chronological order

Suddenly nervous when the time comes to deliver the message

The whiteness of Google search results

Forty years ago, 20 and 21 August 1983: The Grateful Dead at Frost Amphitheater, plus Stevie Ray Vaughan at the Keystone Palo Alto on Sunday evening

West Virginia University will drop language teaching even though 2,700 students are taking language classes