I am positively obsessed with rhubarb.  I may or may not have had it in various tarts and pies in the past, but I have never worked with it, and now that I have, I can’t stop. It started with a request to pick some up at a farmstand en route to a dinner party [...]

As a music-obsessed kid who dreamed of performing too, there are few songs that I can’t relate back to specific episodes throughout my childhood. I have collected music since I was about six years old and I can tell a story about a moment in time from that era, based on any given song. Michael [...]

I’m in the process of transcribing a lot of my poems and lyrics.  The one I’m in now is from a few years back.  A time capsule of where I was including the space of  having trouble with a difficult friend: Drain c. ‘04 By J. diels You just drag me down And it’s hard [...]

Watching Savion Glover is a religious experience.  It really is.  There is no other way to describe this.  Last night at 45 Bleecker Theatres, Savion Glover and Pure Projects presented “Percussion Discussion” as part of their new series, Bleecker Thingz. The rhythms are cool, the person beautiful, the sounds ever-changing and dynamic but a song [...]

Phenomenal Handclap Band put on a groove at Stuyvesant Oval last night.  I tried to guage whether most of the atttendees were Stuy Town residents or people who are fans or people who just try to take advantage of New York’s array of free summer concerts. It seemed a mix of all the above.  It [...]

The Supreme Court ruled today against convicts’ rights to DNA testing.  As I read coverage of these kinds of rulings, I am always struck by the lack of focus. So the “people” do not want to help who was proven guilty go free, but IF a person is indeed innocent, there is a criminal running [...]

Since becoming a part time country mouse three years ago, I promised myself I’d check out the local horse shows.  I was told one of the biggest riding circuits was located a block from my house.  There, a sprawling complex of stables and show rings brought in the horses and their riders every few weeks [...]

Props to my brilliant and amazing writing teacher, Mindy  Lewis, on her new compilation, Dirt, garnering impressive reviews–including yesterday’s from the Wall Street Journal.  I purchased my own copy at last week’s reading at the Inquiring Minds bookstore in New Paltz with Mindy and Dirt contributors Laura Shane Cunningham (Sleeping Arrangements) and Rand Richards Cooper [...]