Legendary jazz saxophonist and composer Wayne Shorter gets an appreciative appraisal in this excellent biography by music journalist Michelle Mercer, who follows this “determinedly eccentric” genius from his early days with Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers in the late 1950s, through
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On a recent trip to the hot tubs of Calistoga, I came across a hilarious book amid the sulfur steam, Jon Stewart’s “America, (The Book)”. When I returned home, my friends back in D.C. called to tell me about a
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Ater seeing Howard Zinn on John Stewart’s “The Daily Show” not long ago, I just knew I had to get my hands on the follow up to his “A People’s History of the United States”, the book in which he
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Towards the end of Jay Cantor’s novel The Death of Che Guevera, Guevera’s friend and would-be biographer Ponco muses, “It doesn’t matter how many times I write ‘The End’; it’s not over.” That reference to Ponco’s incessant inability to finish
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(Ed note: Due to increased focus on the proposed Mid-Market Redevelopment Area, we have decided to reprint this review of a book that discusses the track record of downtown redevelopment in America)While reading Downtown America, I realized that most of
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There are more slaves now than ever before in history, there are also fewer per capita then ever before. Though I haven’t seen a study documenting it yet it also seems safe to claim that slavery is receiving less attention
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This book is a compilation of essays intended to inspire Americans towards consciousness and activism regarding the fate of our nation. I read the first essay and I am at once, inspired. This inspiration is an experience that I relive
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A day after the Red Sox won the World Series title, you will hear a lot about the Curse of the Bambino being broken and how Boston as a town has suffered for the last 86 years without a pennant.
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