Why Not Ask For More?
A lot of times, live music impresses, or fails to, based on your expectations going in. We’ve all been surprised by some obscure opening act. We’ve all been disappointed by a familiar headliner. But...
View ArticleAppetites
Sometimes I find I get to thinking of the past, when we swore to each other that our love would last. You kept right on loving. I went on a fast. Now I am too thin and your love is too vast.- Leonard...
View ArticleBest Music of 2009
In reviewing the music of 2009, I was struck by how good it actually was. My first thought was that no one recording knocked me out as the run away best of the year, but there were so many exceptional...
View ArticleMiracle Fish
I guess we owe some kind of grudging debt to the underhanded business manager that stole Leonard Cohen’s money a few years back. That betrayal plucked the songwriter from his Buddhist retreat on Mount...
View ArticleDiminuendo
Christopher Hitchens’ latest dispatch from the region he has called ‘Tumortown’ chronicles the loss of his voice to cancer. It’s a harrowing examination of how his very identity seems to be slipping...
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