The Selected Ballads

After being shut out of some recent shows around town, I made sure to show up early at Jazz Gallery to check out Tarbaby .  It's a relat...

I'm not sure, but I think this Wall Street Journal article on jeans care is some kind of classic in the field of newspaper "lifest...

I recently finished reading Maria Rosa Menocal's The Ornament of the World , about the rise and fall of Al-Andalus .  Though it leaves r...

I finally got to see the long-time-in-the-making Harry Nilsson documentary, Who Is Harry Nilsson? , the other night.  Some lightly sifted th...

So, this morning I was eating a caffeinated candy bar from the Czech Republic that I received as a gift, and it reminded me of the Pixies...

The next person who refers to Newt Gingrich as an "intellectual" should get smacked in the mouth with a Susan Sontag book. Newt ...

A quick rundown of some albums I've been enjoying lately from the classic, "hard bop" era of the late '50s to early '6...