YouTube + Marc Ribot = Epic Win.
Sean MurphyTo continue with the theme from yesterday: Thank god for jazz. Thank god for YouTube....
Art. Ensemble. Of. Chicago.
It’s cold here in DC. There is dirty slush in the streets. We are facing...
Straight, No Chaser
This Sunday’s New York Times magazine features a lengthy, but worthwhile appraisal of John Cheever by Charles McGrath. The...
Mardi gras in my mind
Mardi gras makes me think of New Orleans and all the good things I associate...
Meet the New Dross
Smug? Check. A face you have an irrepressible compulsion to punch? Check. Ambitious as he is talentless? Yup....
A Planet of Playthings
While writing about Flannery O’Connor the other day, I made the half-serious, half-sardonic observation that...
Send Another Moses
While the Republicans continue to reel, and dig themselves a bit further into that crevasse (while,...
Careful with that Axe, Jindal
Note to GOP. This guy: Is going to inspire about as much confidence as these...
“In my stories is where I live.”
Of few writers can it more accurately be said that it is the work, not...
Funding for the Arts–the old fashioned way
From Folio: After months of negotiations with the Internal Revenue Service over thousands of...