Luddites everywhere decry technology, but thank God for digital video. Now anyone willing to pony up a couple of grand can produce a worthwhile cinematic effort, given that he or she or they (most likely) have the creative chops necessary. A...

The horror; the horror... I imagine that Hui's soul was a vacuum, absorbing anger from every perceived slight. The pressure continued to build, never relieved by the pleasure of human companionship. It began to spill over in...

My friend, jazz reviewer Troy Collins (All About Jazz, et al), got me a comp pass to see the John Abercrombie Quartet at the Hilton tonight. This was his self-inflicted penance for telling me about Pere Ubu being in town a few weeks...

We buried my grandmother today. She was 95, almost 96, and up to a few months before she died, had a full, active and vital life. The ailments of old age didn't stop her, cancer didn't stop her, blindness didn't stop her. A...

...but I just have to say hello. I'm thrilled to find a community of individuals who have this particular thing in common with me, because all my other family and friends, sympathetic and helpful as they are, just don't dig me when...