It’s afternoon outside the Trump Museum, and a small crowd of people has entered the park gates and are surging toward the left entrance. There are always so many more people when the Women’s Brigade are in charge of security, recognizable by their...
Author - Tony Eprile
Israel and the West Bank, Christmas 2010
Love and the Wall
Bethlehem Street
Church of the Nativity Square
Bethlehem Street (II)
Peaceful Coexistence
Donald Trump Addresses the Girl Scouts
Thank you. Thank you. I’m thrilled to be here, thrilled. Fantastic. I should say Toffee-Tastic. (LAUGHTER) That’s a Girl Scout cookie, and I love those cookies. Thin Mints. I could eat them all day. You know, some Girl Scouts came to the...
London’s Calling
Preparing a lamb curry wrap, Borough Market, May 5 I walked around the Borough Market exactly a month ago, reveling in how the South Bank has become a favorite part of the city. The market is a great place to grab a bite to eat or just watch...
Neo(Trump)ologisms for 2017
1) Trumpe l’oeil: When you can’t believe the shit you’re seeing. 2) Trumple: To stamp all over with the jackboots of ignorance; e.g., “The reporter was thrown to the ground and trumpled.” 3) Trumpolining. When you bounce from one...
Ways of Seeing
Art is the light that warns us away from the rocky shoals of an increasingly materialistic culture. This prismatic lens at the Santa Marta Lighthouse Museum in Cascais, Portugal, is now retired but it still sends out a beacon of aesthetic pleasure.
Man’s Best Friend
The word “charity” comes from the Latin root for “holding dear,” or caring. It is often fleeting and nameless, but fixed in time here as this anonymous woman’s hand shows appreciation for the accordion player and his dog...
Laughing at the Demagogues
It’s become predictable—though still, I hope, not normal—that a Saturday Night Live skit will be followed by an angry tweet from the new President, using words like “unwatchable” and “not funny.” If these silly overreactions at times seem like part...