Reviews on Yelp said the food was “hit or miss.” We were in the mood for barbecue. We were pass through Escondido. So we decided to...

In case you didn’t notice, for the better part of 140-some-odd days there’s been a writer’s strike. I actually think it's over. The...

I had been in mid-spoonful of chewing my Cheerios, sitting on the carpet in front of the TV in the living room. My brother and my other...

Is a bad cup of coffee considered an existential crisis or a petty, first-world problem? I think the former. Or is it the latter?...

When I started looking into some of my father’s old police cases, I didn’t expect to get pulled in so fully, the same way I think he did....

In the summer of 1978, a teenage girl from Eastern Connecticut disappeared while hitchhiking home toward Jewett City. The disappearance…

The coffee odyssey in Downtown SLC has been troublesome. The Coffee Shop at the Little American was a bust (see full review). And the...

Across from the grandeur of the Grand American Hotel on South Main Street in Downtown Salt Lake City sits the Little American Hotel, and...

I regret to inform you that Atlanta’s downtown coffee scene has its limits. And by that, I mean most all of the mom and pops and...

With some time to kill before volleyball today, with the internet in the hotel room not working, with my daughter having saved half of...

Every leg of travel — from portal to portal — went surprisingly well. It actually went smooth, going to Atlanta, ahead of the Big South...

Special to Great Pacific Review | By Jason James Barry Police go where the facts and evidence lead. They need to. They can’t sidestep...

The convergence of a long drive in to Las Vegas (clocking in at 7 hours and 6 minutes from San Diego) + a late dinner (well after...

The trick to a successful journey is figuring out where the hell it is you’re going. And in my return to Kansas City, I’ve been enjoying...

Mildred’s, For Breakfast at Lunch: Day 2 in Kansas City brought a late start, but a full day of volleyball games. The team convened in...

If you’ve ever made the drive to Las Vegas from parts of California — your foray sent you through a vastness of desert. And invariably,...

Sometimes, which seems to be too often, there is always a drag, some pull that leaves you wanting out of Las Vegas. Everything costs you,...

There is the impulse to compare suspected murderer Bryan Kohberger to reputed 1970s serial killer Ted Bundy. As facts bear out, we may...

A great deal of focus has been placed on vehicle stops by police to view murder suspect Bryan Kohberger’s hands days before his arrest—...

A man is in custody for the Idaho college murders — but the devil will be in the details to nail down a conviction. Authorities in...