Elvis Costello’s cover of Van Morrison’s Full Force Gale (hear it) is simply a tour de force...
“A lobby is like a night flower; It thrives in the dark and dies in the sun.”...
In the late 1940s, Dick Blakeslee, then a student at the University of Chicago, wrote Passing Through,...
(credit: PritchettCartoons.com) Unlike Moses in the accompanying cartoon, I don’t believe that the entertainment industry has a...
(credit: Janusz Kapusta/NYT) I’ve been waiting to hear from Tariq Ramadan, the Muslim scholar denied entry by...
Larry Franklin (credit: Maariv International) Since I wrote my first post about the alleged Pentagon spy case,...
Crooked Timber has graciously linked and trackbacked my last post about Daniel Pipes’ intellectual vendetta against Tariq...
Chuck Taggart is just plain great. A great radio DJ (KCSN-FM) with impeccable musical taste, a great...
Planxty in concert (credit: Gumbo Pages) Planxty was one of the first of the Irish “supergroups,” which...
Bruce Springsteen is one of our great songwriters and rock performers. But there are at least two...
Jane Siberry in concert (credit: CBC Radio’s Tapestry) Jane Siberry‘s When I Was a Boy was a...
Allison Krauss is one of America’s great national music treasures: a phenomenal fiddle player with an absolutely...
