Without music, life would be an error. — Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900 Music (and other) geeks tend to make “best of” lists, sometimes every year. A…
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Meet Linton Kwesi Johnson, who rarely if ever has mentioned cannabis, Haile Selassie, or Rastafarianism, and who will appear at the Sierra Nevada World Music Festival in Boonville this month.
Richard Brautigan once observed that “It’s really something to have fame put its feathery crowbar under your rock and then upward to the light to…
A lot of Americans are in physical pain. A lot of Americans are addicted to prescription pain medications. The two populations overlap, but are not…
Every morning I put about half a teaspoon of sugar in my coffee. Then I usually do that again. And I love it. That is…
There's an old sad joke in health policy circles: A bigshot policy wonk, who worked his life away trying to get a good universal health…
When I was a kid in Southern California back in the 1970s, I had a pal up the street whose dad taught chemistry at the…
Despite my better judgment and sometimes sensitive stomach, I caught a bit of the latest Republican candidate debate the other evening. The one benefit was…
Contraception exploded onto the front pages in February. That might seem strange to most people — what is controversial about contraception at this late date?…