Mingus Ah Um: An Open Letter to the 20th Century
Sean Murphy1959 was, by any measure, a watershed year for jazz music. Some all-time great recordings...
July 7: When The Two Sevens Clash
July 7, 1977: When the two sevens clash. You can, and should, appreciate Culture’s masterpiece...
Remembering Max Roach
YouTube is Santa Claus, I’m a kid, and every day is Christmas. All I can...
Robert McNamara: The Things He Didn’t Carry
By no means can all (or most) of the blame for the catastrophic clusterfuck that...
The Doors: America’s Star-Spangled Band
The 4th of July presents an at least two irresistible reasons to talk about The Doors. One:...
You radiate cold shafts of broken glass…
Quitting? Wow. What a contemptible coward and laughable fraud she is. (And if this “plan”...
Goldman Sachs: It’s Hard Out Here for a Vampiring Pimp
Kind of like the situation in Guantanamo, it seems that all that can be said...
The Washington Post’s slow, agonizing death spiral
As the once proud (or at least respectable) institution rots, the sights and smells become...
The news today will be the movies for tomorrow
I’ve said all I care to say about the disgraceful state of affairs at Guantanamo...