If you’re like me and love world music, then you’re likely disappointed by almost all the current...
Mideast Peace
I don’t have much use for Tom Friedman as I’ve stated here before. While I know he...
Abba Eban had many qualities that recommended him to those who remember him fondly. One of his...
Ariel Sharon: Mr. Nyetcredit: Odstudios.net Julie McCarthy on tonight’s All Things Considered described Ariel Sharon’s response to...
My wife is nearly 34 weeks pregnant (unbelievably pregnant!) with twins conceived at the NYU fertility clinic...
Sam Mangwana will certainly enter the pantheon of soukous’ greatest vocalists, which already honors Tabu Ley Rochereau...
The Bush Administration and the U.S. military have been as good in protecting the looted weapons cache...
Gasparyan playing the ancient duduk (credit: Michael Brook Breakdown) In 1998, Djivan Gasparyan and Michael Brook collaborated...
As if we needed any more proof, an October 23rd AP article (U.S. makes inroads vs. Iraq...
I attended a party in Berkeley in the early 1990s and someone played Ottopasuuna’s eponymous (1991) record....
Songhai was a world music fusion group active in the 1980s and 1990s consisting of Malian kora-player...
Why Martin Peretz Doesn’t Like Presidents Who Are Honest Brokers in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Why Martin Peretz Doesn’t Like Presidents Who Are Honest Brokers in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
If you ever wanted to read a tired old American Jewish apologia for Ariel Sharon’s right-wing policies,...
