The Cuervo Gold, The Fine Colombian, Make Tonight a Wonderful Thing
The storm had passed and a soft summer light enveloped the crowd, gathering with folding chairs, bottles of wine, and anticipation for a show ahead that would bring them back 30 years to the band’s heyday. It was a beautiful night at Tanglewood, and soon, Steely Dan would launch into […]
Tim Carroll, Doctor and Renaissance Man, Leaves this Earth
I am a habitual reader of obituaries and was struck today by a familiar name of a local doctor who just passed away. Part of the obituary fascination, that I’m sure I share with many others, is looking at the age of the deceased. It’s either really sad they died […]
Lend Me a Tenor at the Granite Theater, a Ribald Delight
On a sultry summer night, we approached the doorway to the Granite Theatre, just as it was being lit by the brilliant rays of the ebbing summer sun. There once was a steeple in this 1860s church, but it was lost in the 1938 hurricane. Today it’s the home of […]
Please Donate Stickers…Just Don’t Make them Too American
I’m escaping the heat this weekend by heading to Rhode Island’s South County, where I will make a rendezvous at 11 am with a friend who has a sailboat. Last night sure convinced me this was a good plan, as I tossed and turned in sweat soaked sheets. An annoying […]
Please, Please, Take a Vacation
If you could have unlimited vacation days from work, how many would you take? That’s the question asked in a story by Sue Shellenbarger in the WSJ, when she visited companies who have adopted a policy of letting employees take as much time off as they want. Not surprisingly, most […]
Honey for Oshun: Returning to Cuba to Find Long Lost Mom
Last night’s late night Netflick took me to Cuba, where Roberto, who left as a child, had returned to try and find his mother Carmen. The movie juxtaposed black and white footage of boats fleeing the country with the scene of his arrival in Havana, passing by the Fidel billboards […]
Wanda Jackson Learned to Sing Rock from Boyfriend Elvis
Yesterday morning on Monte’s show on ‘RSI, he played a recording of one of the highlights of the Green River Festival. Funny, I too had recorded the same slice of the show as I stood near Wanda Jackson below the stage. The tiny singer, who is in the Rock n […]
GRF: Find Places Like This and Go There!
This weekend I spent my days in a place where everyone was happy. Happy to share their food, their drink and space on the lawn, happy to be right there, on that summer day, under the sun listening to great music at the Green River Festival. One of the performers, […]