Y'all wasn't exactly expectin' a pitcher a'Mammy, wuzya? Eighty years ago this week, Monroe, Louisiana-based Delta Air Lines...

Many Americans might think the question of how many continents exist on Earth should be settled (of course, the demotion of Pluto as a plane...

San Francisco's black population has declined from 13% in 1970 to 7% today. Micah sees himself as less than one-in-ten; Joanne sees her...

Austin, Texas might get all the hollers from mainstream media, but I think it's that other college town and Southern state capital a few...

Photo by youngrobv Because of a bureaucratic bottleneck involving my Brazilian work papers, I'm not heading down to Brasilia for anoth...

Just this week, I had begun the preliminary planning for two weeks of volunteering this summer at an environment-focused work camp run by th...

Cruising around Miami for New Years in a rental car with no iPod dock meant much radio time. Thankfully, 93.9 (in spite of random and agoni...

I haven't been on vacation in Florida with my entire family since the mid-90s, and spending this Christmas with them in Orlando brings b...

NEW YORK— Yeah, there are rats, service disruptions, drunken old men, drunken young women, and the pungent odor of pee, but dammit, the New ...

NEW YORK— A couple months ago, after a week in London, I posted a comparison of the English capital with its New World offspring and giving...

Ain't it pretty? Today, I head up to the Frozen North: ten days in New York City (any lurkers in the area, get at me) . In honor of the...

Get at me, SoCal. Fly Brother welcomes your views. If this post hit the spot, please comment and/or click .

While I catch up from a hellified week of handling personal business before the trip and the move, I thought I'd share this inspiring cl...

Photo by niddler . I've never been known as a flag-waving, red-white-and-blue-bleeding patriot (often, quite the opposite), but there i...

From my unplanned, surprise weekend in Chicago—architectural gem and friendly metropolis:

Yesterday, I wrapped up a two-week jaunt out to California, Washington State, and Oregon, for no particular reason other than to meet up wit...

Fireworks (Blurry) Fort Mason Park San Francisco, California USA July 4, 2009 Fly Brother welcomes your views. If this post hit the spot...

Recently screened at the Havana Film Festival New York, the 12-minute short film, Hispaniola , tackles Haitian-Dominican relations on the Ca...

The title “Third Largest City* in the World” never moved beyond the abstract until I found myself circling over the Valley of Mexico on the...

There's the moonlight and magnolias of the North, the kid-centered wonders of Central, and the tropical swing of the South - the geograp...