Ornette Coleman and The First Day of the Rest of My Life
Sean MurphyTopic: The Album You’d Give Anything To Hear Again for The First Time I still...
All Hail Me: The Golden Goddesses of Veruca Salt (Never Say Never Edition!)
So…I just purchased my ticket to see Veruca Salt, in July. And this isn’t the...
Sinners and Saints (File Under: The Catholic Church is (Still) Decadent and Depraved)
So here is the best thing I’ve seen this week relating to the Pope slinking...
Beauty is a Rare Thing: Celebrating International Jazz Day (Revisited)
All hope is not lost. At least enough people are still making –and listening to–...
The Song Remains The Same or, The Agony of Influence (Revisited)
Two thoughts from T.S. Eliot: April is the cruelest month… Whatever. Good poets borrow; great...
Ladies and Gentlemen: Max Roach & Co.
The ocean is not this deep. Outer space is not this vast. Reality is not...
Happy Birthday Chazz: Mingus at 92
Today would have been (and, still is) Charles Mingus’s 92nd birthday. I’ve written about him...
Mark Twain: The Big Daddy of American Letters (Revisited)
On April 21, 1910, author Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, died in...
Down With The King: Wherein the Mysteries of Easter are Contemplated (Revisited)
Right. So what’s scarier: a grown man dressed in a bunny costume, an actual adult-sized...
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Whatever your feelings and opinions regarding minimum wage in the United States, you owe it...