My wife is nearly 34 weeks pregnant (unbelievably pregnant!) with twins conceived at the NYU fertility clinic...
Mideast Peace
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,...
I’ve written here before about why I find ultrasounds so impressive and fascinating (especially if you’re the...
Avrum Burg and Yasser Abed Rabbo, the architects of the Geneva Accords, spoke to Seattle audiences yesterday...
1862 Civil War poster from New York Historical Society (credit: New York Historical Society collection) I’ve written...
I’ve just written a post here about a new blog service I quite like, Blogdigger. One of...
