Blogs
Sunday Night in Denver
As I drove to the New Orleans All Star Jam-Balaya, I passed a small pack of Hilary Clinton supporters half-heartedly waving an upside down “Hilary” sign at passing cars. A […]
A Sense of Occasion
I’m writing from Denver, where the Democratic National Convention starts tomorrow. Tonight is the New Orleans All-Star Jam-Balaya, featuring half of the known New Orleans musical world. The show’s a […]
The Words He Couldn’t Say
In today’s Huffington Post, Harry Shearer analyzes President Bush’s speech yesterday in New Orleans: As disturbing as the words he spoke were the words Bush never mentioned: in almost half […]
Making the Invisible Visible
If you don’t see links inside the blog posts, run your cursor over the text. I see them on some computers but not all computers, and our tech folks have […]
The Tubes Are Open
The Internet and I are together again. Sorry for the radio silence, but server issues shut me down for the last week. We’ve been so busy finishing the September issue […]
More on Isaac Hayes
Here’s part of Chuck Eddy’s excellent take on Isaac Hayes: When people say Hayes’ early ’70s recordings anticipated — maybe even invented — disco, this is part of what they’re […]
Isaac Hayes notes
I wonder if it’s now possible to imagine how alien the wah-wah in “Theme from Shaft” once sounded? When I was 12 or 13, a friend and I spent an […]
Love for Bo
Writer Ned Sublette’s appreciation of Bo Diddley was published in the new issue of Smithsonian, and it’s a personal, free-wheeling take on the breadth of Diddley’s accomplishments. Some you know, […]
Mandatory Reading
With discussions of “the race card” – Can we finally bury that phrase along with all its variations? – spiking up in the presidential election, Jeff Chang’s Zentronix blog is mandatory […]
Newspapers and Currency
Friday, Jack Shafer wrote “What’s Really Killing Newspapers?” at Slate.com. He contends that it’s no longer the place people go for “social currency” – ” the information we acquire and […]
