Blake DowlingApril 15, 2023
15min0
They capture a journey, making you feel like you are part of it somehow.
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Blake DowlingApril 15, 2023
Associated PressJune 1, 2020
6min547
Records labels calling for a day without music Tuesday.
Jim TurnerAugust 4, 2019
4min906
Side one of the planned marker gives a recap of Petty’s early life, including his musical influences.
Associated PressApril 20, 2017
11min214
Thursday marks marijuana culture’s high holiday, 4/20, when college students gather — at 4:20 p.m. — in clouds of smoke on campus quads and when pot shops in legal weed states thank their customers with discounts. This year’s edition provides an occasion for pot activists to reflect on how far their movement has come, with […]
Florence SnyderJanuary 10, 2017
3min167
Nat Hentoff‘s writing was as brilliant, edgy and unpredictable as the music of Bob Dylan, Miles Davis, Aretha Franklin, Charles Mingus, and the many other geniuses he worked with in his altogether remarkable life. Hentoff died Saturday at age 91, mourned by family, free thinkers, jazz junkies, and persons on the lunatic fringe of the […]
Mitch PerryDecember 12, 2016
7min157
Bob Dylan opted to blow off the Nobel Prize for Literature awards ceremony in Sweden this weekend, instead opting to have Azita Raji, the U.S. Ambassador in Sweden, read a speech that he composed (And no, I had never heard of our ambassador to Sweden until I looked it up this weekend). Among those who care about this […]
Marc YachtAugust 24, 20155min171
A recent Gallup Poll asked Americans what they thought to be the most pressing challenges facing the nation. The concerns were divided into economic and non-economic issues. It would behoove the current presidential aspirants to study the country through its citizens’ eyes rather than standard party politics. It’s clear the average Joe and Jane have […]
Marc YachtDecember 7, 20145min212
In stock market parlance, “the Ghost walks” points to a security that has long been dead having new life. Watching demonstrations across the country reminds me that an apathetic public can come to life. Has America found its MOJO? The Middle East wars, the lack of jobs, a broken health care system and the widening […]