In Medias Res

I mentioned before that the big "event" concerts that get put together rarely appeal to me--but this is another one which did: th...

Melissa and I have seen The Bobs twice, both times in Washington DC back in the late 1990s. Their line-up had changed twice more by the tim...

...and sitting on my bed upstairs, with everyone else in the house asleep, I was laughing until my sides hurt. Happy 100th birthday, Jul...

Melissa and I saw the Proclaimers, a kind of fantastic folk-punk-gospel duo, live in a tiny club in Salt Lake City, back in 1994, when they ...

There are very few huge, "event" concerts that I genuinely wish I could attend or could have attended...but this tribute to the la...

[Cross-posted to By Common Consent ] The only time I have had the opportunity to actually vote on--as opposed to pontificate about--same-s...

To continue with the Texas theme from last week--my friend Scott (the same fellow who I went to the Joe Ely concert in Fort Worth with) intr...

This one I was actually present for: just over three years ago, July 3rd, 2009, Joe Ely and his tight, fabulous band (including Bobby Keys !...

Hey, all my fellow Generation-X-Sid-and-Marty-Krofft-fans--you remember this show, right? Of course you do; in third grade I wanted noth...

[Cross-posted to Political Context ] So, it's been more than a week since the Supreme Court, against my expectations , upheld the Affo...