Jeff Waful Talks Lights With Phish’s Chris Kuroda
You know them; they light up your life. Jeff Waful, who first interviewed Phish’s Chris Kuroda for Jambands.com eleven years ago, now produces great lights for Umphrey’s McGee (following a long stint with moe.). So who better to check in with Kuroda on the state of the strobe? There’s a lot more where this came…
Bob Dylan To Distribute Worst Album To Citibank Customers First
It’s beginning to sound a little like Christmas thanks to Bob Dylan, whose forthcoming Christmas in the Heart is easily the most disturbing, ridiculous, and superfluous collection of seasonal song in recent memory. Yes, it’s that great – and you can hear the 30-second samples removed from its Amazon page here. Even better – or…
Apple Rejects Single-Payer iPhone App
A free iPhone application – iSinglepayer – that compares the cost of health care around the world, documents insufficiencies in the U.S. health care system, uses the phone’s GPS to determine users’ local congresspersons, and displays how much each member of congress has received from the health sector was rejected by Apple on the grounds…
Mr. U2 Goes To Washington
With two Bono shout-outs to Nancy Pelosi during their Washington DC gig Tuesday night, and an elaborate multimedia stage design (“the Claw”!) that, as one commenter noted, could have fed all Africa, U2 walked a thin line between righteousness and ostentation. The comments to the Chris Richards’s Washington Post review supply a wide range of…
Interview: John Brown’s Body’s Tommy Benedetti
I had a chance to check out The Black Seeds open for John Brown’s Body last week at the Rickshaw Stop in San Francisco. (The groups just wrapped up a twelve-city US tour.) Before the show I sat down with John Brown’s Body drummer Tommy Benedetti. He talked about touring with The Black Seeds, the…
Sustainability In Words And Pictures
Maira Kalman’s latest installment of “And the Pursuit of Happiness,” a New York Times blog, is a reminder that a “green” city is a beautiful city. In this installment she considers the importance of public engagement and the people who help keep New York clean — from the Commissioner of Sanitation to the mayor,…
Support For Health Care Reform Increasing
“Public support for health reform ended its summer slide, reversed course and moved modestly upwards in September, according to the latest Kaiser Health Tracking Poll.”
Flipping The Health Care Reform Narrative
The elderly, fearing reduction of their Medicare Advantage coverage, have been pitted against the young in the seemingly endless debate over health care reform. Politicians have historically treasured older voters, but the most recent election demonstrated a marked increase in the number of younger voters. The so-called “young invincibles,” however, appear to be losing out…
Don’t Mess With Health-Care Success!
“Everybody talks about the 50 percent of American bankruptcies that are from health-care costs. But what about the 50 percent that aren’t?”
The Road To Apathy
The road to apathy is paved with post-election disappointment. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said Sunday that closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay “has proven more complicated than anticipated.” An Economist blogger mocks him thusly: Really? Figuring out what to do with hundreds of people held for years without charge on often flimsy terrorism allegations—not…