I once got a job writing for a magazine because of a James Brown tribute I'd written focusing on his shiny patent leather shoes during his performance on the...
As we come to the close of Black History Month, may we add a special one-time Lifetime Cosmic Eternity award for Greatest Electric Psychedelic Black Man with...
One of the saddest sights I have ever seen I saw last Friday night at the Newport. My first-ever guitar hero (after Hendrix), Johnny Winter--my beloved,...
There is a book in the Grandview Heights Public Library I check out once a year and struggle with. It's about 70 years old. Its cover is unlike any I've seen,...
So there I was, watching the movie Argo about the six Americans escaping Khomeini's Iran in 1978 in the aftermath of the embassy takeover and subsequent...
As winter has sat on our faces with its historic polar vortex, one can and must fight back. In lieu of a soul-saving emergency trip to Puerto Rico and midnight...