Ted Lasso is the Empty Boat
April 15th, 2021 | by msalt
Probably the most surprising hit show of the last year is Ted Lasso, a concept that seems ridiculous. A hyper-optimistic [&hellip
April 15th, 2021 | by msalt
Probably the most surprising hit show of the last year is Ted Lasso, a concept that seems ridiculous. A hyper-optimistic [&hellip
December 26th, 2020 | by msalt
The great (but troubled, junkie) jazz pianist Bill Evans and his combo — Eddie Gomez and Martin Morrel — played [&hellip
December 9th, 2020 | by msalt
I was listening to a band, live on some upstate New York radio station, and couldn’t shake the idea that [&hellip
September 10th, 2019 | by msalt
As a favor to our friends over at The Palindromist Magazine, here are the results of the SymmyS Awards for [&hellip
November 26th, 2017 | by msalt
In the Broadway smash hit “Hamilton,” our hero meets his future wife Eliza Schuyler by first hitting on her sister [&hellip
April 20th, 2016 | by msalt
I just ran across a classic post at Maria Popova’s always worthwhile BrainPickings that illuminates the connection between martial arts [&hellip
March 16th, 2014 | by msalt
There are few American writers more criminally under-appreciated than poet Jane Hirshfield. A student of Zen, and a graduate of [&hellip
March 5th, 2014 | by msalt
How can you find meditative quiet in a busy city? The Taoist poet T’ao Ch’ien (365 – 427 C.E.) knows. [&hellip
September 4th, 2013 | by msalt
Here are a couple of highlights, to go with this classic bit of damaged punky blues from 1980. Morris Tepper [&hellip
July 13th, 2013 | by msalt
Continuing this series about a great blue song in its various incarnations. The first example was an unreleased 1968 Rolling [&hellip