Wes Phillips

This just in: Jerome Harris dropped me a line announcing a concert tour with Bill Frisell, Jack DeJohnette, and Ben Surman. Unfortunately, it won't be playing anywhere I can go see them, but if you're lucky, you can catch one of these dates.

Discovery of a "hybrid" skeleton in Portugal has paleontologists speculating that it might be the result of Neanderthal/modern human mating, perhaps challenging the "out of Africa" scenario.

Huckleberry fails to see the appeal of a perfectly flat rug.

I've always been partial to Rabelais' "Je m'en vais chercher un grand peut-être." (I am off in search of the great perhaps.)

As the US eliminates music education from its curriculum, we begin to see proof that music has "real" benefits. I thought that exposing kids to beauty and greatness was enough, but what do I know?

How sex, rum, and WWII ignited the fad that will not die.

Mindless fun—and it's ed-u-ma-cational!