comfy

Like an old friend who turns up with the gift of a comfy sweater, Irish Repertory Theater is reviving not one but two popular seasonal productions.

She was wearing slippers, comfy pants, a Dodgers hat and a T-shirt that said “Hecho en Highland Park CA” — Made in Highland Park.

I wanted a comfy living room where if a couple’s coming, or if they have kids, they can chill.

In person, Baker is boyish and down to earth, his clothes a comfy, unpretentious combo of sweatshirt and nondescript jeans, the familiar wardrobe of this most unassuming of America’s new wave of indie auteurs.

The restaurant is on the old Route 66, and travelers regularly stopped by to eat and rest in the comfy booths before the final stretch to Los Angeles.