Remembering the USS Indianapolis, Robert Shaw and The Scene
Sean MurphyOn July 30, 1945, the USS Indianapolis, which had just delivered key components of the...
Ripe with Rich Attainments: Jethro Tull’s ‘A Passion Play’, Reassessed
For prog-rock aficionados, the hits keep coming, and one man above all deserves our gratitude:...
Ars Moriendi or, The Art of Dying (American Style)
This post takes some excerpts from my memoir Please Talk About Me When I’m Gone....
Amy Winehouse: Lack of Love is A Losing Game (Revisited)
Earlier this year I had the opportunity to write about Amy Winehouse via Howard Sounes’...
Hell’s Not Gonna Be Hot Enough: Johnny Winter, R.I.P.
Hell is not gonna be hot enough for this cat. R.I.P. Johnny Winter, an American...
James Garner, R.I.P.
James Garner has died. So too has a tiny part of my childhood. What an...
Stuart Scott: Winning
All of us are winning by virtue of being alive. By fighting. But we too...
Echoing out of the Passion Play…
Wow. So I’m working on (yet another) feature about Jethro Tull, this time about the...
Charlie Haden, R.I.P.
i. 1959 was a watershed year for jazz music (arguably the greatest single year for...
Mundial de Futbol*
Tomaso sat down to watch the day’s action. He had missed several crucial games from...