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Five years ago I got to work as usual on a bright early fall day. After the usual routine, I turned on my TV (it was just assumed you had a TV as a department head in local TV), and there was a picture on the Today Show of smoke rising from the World Trade Center, a shot taken from 30 Rock (NBC) with the Empire State Building in between. I ( Read more... )

The novelist writes about the coming end in order to warn about present ills and so avert the end....[but he] is less like a prophet than he is like the canary that coal miners used to take down into the shaft to test the air. When the canary gets unhappy, utters plaintive cries, and collapses, it may be time for the miners to surface and think ( Read more... )

Just got back from the North Park 4:30 show of Leonard Cohen, I'm Your Man. Only about a half dozen people in that huge theatre. It's a must see, especially if you're into LC. Don't expect a full bio film, don't expect great old footage (which I'm sure must exist). Do expect a bunch of folks playing his music well, with an occasional interlude ( Read more... )

Cash Earns First No. 1 Album Since 1969 ( Read more... )

Kira joined The Juliet Daggers, soon to tour Japan, on the North Street stage late Sunday night as part of the intensive weekend seminar in songwriting and playing, also with Lisa Loeb (see below). Click for concert photo gallery.

TJD MySpace pictures of the sessions

...tonight, 9:30, Music Is Art Fest, North St. stage. See pic: See pic of Kira with them at intensive session today.

The Juliet Dagger website.

at the Music Is Art festival, special invite songwriting session. See pic here.

Can't really say enough about it. They're suffering, but I didn't see too much damage in the French Quarter, where we mostly hung. Besides, Nawlins knows how to suffer, and how to take the pain away. You simply sing and drink it away. We did that a few nights; my days were filled with a very enlightening National Main Streets Conference (still ( Read more... )