Blogs
To Be Fair …
Since I’ve been ripping on the Democratic National Convention for its use of muzak pop-funk – Really? Are we really the party of banal music? Seriously? – it’s only fair […]
More Musicians, More Muzak
Yesterday, the members of Papa Grows Funk – minus john Gros – flew back from Denver after playing a convention afterparty. Also, Irma Thomas played an Etown-sponsored show with David […]
More Music in Denver
I’ve written a little about music in Denver in the last few days, but I haven’t written about music at the convention, which so far seems to be at best […]
Mo’ Money, Mo’ Money
If there was a lot of money in the room in the Fillmore Sunday night, an engineering and construction firm that has the London Olympics as part of its client […]
More on Music at the Convention
Carrie Brownstein from Sleater-Kinney blogs for NPR, and though the dynamics of the blog can get on my nerves, I’m still usually interested. Today she talks about Wayne Kramer of […]
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 […]
