Uncategorized | September 23, 2009

Anticipation. We all feel it in some way, from the day we’re born. My first real memory of anticipation is the kind I felt waiting for my father to get […]

Uncategorized | September 16, 2009

This week, the CBS soap opera Guiding Light will fade to black after an unprecedented 72-year run that began as a radio serial in 1937 (it was first broadcast five days after FDR’s inauguration), […]

Uncategorized | August 21, 2009

The Isle Of Man, located in the middle of the Irish Sea between Britain and Ireland and just below Scotland, is not a place where you’d really expect the next […]

Uncategorized | August 12, 2009

In August of 1969, right after the astonishing Apollo moon landing and right before the lowly Mets would shock the sports world with a World Series win, a half a […]

Uncategorized | August 4, 2009

Any kid named after the title of one of rock music’s most heralded supergroups clearly has their future vocation established pretty early on. Derek Trucks’ first name came from “Derek […]

Uncategorized | July 14, 2009

When DC-area based singer/songwriter Shane Hines talks about stepping in the door of Abbey Road studios, the hallowed musical home of his idols the Beatles, to actually record music, his […]

Uncategorized | July 13, 2009

Typically in an event on a baseball field, early errors cost you. But when it’s two rock idols on the field, you rally, and you win. Elton John and Billy […]

Uncategorized | June 26, 2009

My band Second Wind and I were setting up onstage before our gig at the phenomenal ‘Downtown Silver Spring Swings’ summer concert series venue yesterday evening when I got a […]

Uncategorized | June 22, 2009

This Sunday, after spending Father’s Day with my 13 and 7 year old in a kind of idyllic Father’s Day fashion, and 33 years after my first Aerosmith and ZZ […]

Uncategorized | June 19, 2009

Father’s Day. It’s been a mixed bag of emotions ever since my Dad died five years ago. On the one hand, I am so elated to be a father, and […]