This is the country we live in
Sean MurphyAs I watch, with much anticipation mixed with wary optimism (amongst other feelings) how things unfold in Egypt, it's impossible to overlook a story like this from today's Boston Globe.…
Staring Over The Shoulders Of Giants: Overture
First off, super-sized kudos to Anthony Tommasini, the classical music critic for The New York Times. To even have the interest, much less the ability, to grapple with an ultimate ranking…
Sexism Sells…But Who’s Buying? (Revisited)
Our attitudes toward sex tell us just about everything we need to know about ourselves. Go ahead and open a book, put on the TV, pop in a DVD or…
Looking Into The Sun*
(March, 2000) I look down at my mother as she lay dying. It was worse than I expected. (You don’t expect anything; you worry and fear and anticipate and dread…
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov!
ON THIS DAY: On Jan. 21, 1924, Russian revolutionary Vladimir Ilyich Lenin died at age 54.
Say Anything
It could have been a great story. Boy moves across the country (actually across the town, but at age nine it’s the same difference), girl moves into house across the…
West Coast Seattle Boy: The Jimi Hendrix Anthology
All These Colors: Without Names, Without Sound Jimi Hendrix has been dead for a long time, and the only thing we have to reconcile the senselessness of how young he…
MLK: Remembering The Man and Acknowledging Unfinished Business
"We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed." --Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963) All we need…
Top 50 Albums of the Decade, Part Five (Revisited)
10. The Fiery Furnaces, Bitter Tea (2006) It's a funny thing: as decidedly out there as this effort obviously is, compared to the album that preceded it, Bitter Tea is…
Some Day A Real Rain Will Come: What Travis Bickle Can –And Cannot– Tell Us About Tucson
Voices In Our Heads You talking to me? It is the pivotal scene in Scorsese’s Taxi Driver and it remains one of the seminal moments in movie history. Not so…