The Selected Ballads

Had a strange dream last night involving husband-and-wife evangelists/cult leaders who may have been based on a similar husband-and-wife tea...

Stumptown is my go-to supplier for coffee beans, as they have a great selection, they get consistently good beans, and they seem to know ho...

Although it's already been said better, I feel I should add one more voice to the chorus of enthusiasm for the meeting of contemporar...

While reading Javier Marías' three-part Your Face Tomorrow , I didn't realize that the main character/narrator had appeared in some ...

Much as I enjoy baseball and, in particular, Cardinals baseball, I really really would not want to be a baseball beat reporter. Here's o...

Earlier this month, I took a free tour of Columbia's Computer Music Center (formerly the Princeton-Columbia Electronic Music Center ), t...

1 Ives playing Ives - a decidedly lo-fi recording, but Ives brings a certain I-don't-know-what to his own composition ("The Alcot...