Watch What You Tweet

NYT reports just now that a high-profile libel case involving a Conservative politician that the BBC had to settle has now ensnared many--...

Take This 'Waltz'

Anniversary #36 of "The Last Waltz" concert today.  I posted the rare uncut version of "Don't Do It" a couple days b...

Sunday Morning in the Church of Beethoven

My long-running weekly feature, this time featuring the hallowed final movement of the sonata no. 31.

Cliff Dwelling

Watching the immortal Jimmy Cliff on Austin City Limits now, and noticing via YouTube he did "The Harder They Come" with Springste...

America, 2032?

Catching up with Ken Burns' "The Dust Bowl," Part I tonight after watching Part II this past week.  Scale unimaginable, and I...

Saturday Night Music Pick

Greatest (mature) pickup song ever?  Van Morrison's re-make of "I'll Take of You."  And below, originator Bobby "Blue...

'Tension' Over Drone Strikes

Big new piece just up at NYT by Scott Shane on untold story of how the Obama  team tried to "codify" its kill-now-ask-questions-la...