Are Americans Amateurs?
When it comes to trash talk, it would seem so. Numbers two and four completely cracked me up.
Wes Phillips
Why Newspapers Are Screwed
Silicon Alley Insider tells a horror story.
Skeeters
Twenty things you probably don't know about 'em.
Not For Wimps
Howard Mandel has written a wonderful essay on Maria Schneider. First Fred Kaplan name-dropped her, now this—I have got to get my tucchus to one of her gigs.
Simpsonizing Composers
If you bumped into these composers at the Kwick-E-Mart, would you recognize them?
Wish I'd Said That!
This article has the best lead ever—or, to use the jargon of my tribe, "lede."
The Last Delta Bluesman
Garth Cartwright profiles David "Honeyboy" Edwards on the eve of his European tour. He heard Charley Patton and Tommy Johnson, the musicians regarded as Delta blues founders, play when he worked on a plantation. Big Joe Williams taught him music and how to hobo. He busked with the Memphis Jug Band, hung out with a teenaged Howlin' Wolf, and recorded for Alan Lomax. And in 1945 he took Little Walter to Chicago.
Honeyboy in Pictures
A Flickr photoset.
Rolling the Stones
Has Scorsese made the ultimate up-close-and-personal documentary about the Rolling Stones? While I'm sure it's a good concert movie, I'm not sure there is any reality to the Stones any more. As a student of film, Scorsese knows that when the legend becomes fact, you shoot the legend.
Riding OTR
David Gates is grumpy about the hoopla over On the Road's 50th anniversary. Grumpy, but not to the point of ignoring the occasion.