This week's sporkful

Solange is from the recommended list, but I can't give credit to one person for that. So many people have praised her and exclaimed ...

I read about Terrie Odabi in a Smithsonian magazine article by Touré, "Keeping the Blues Alive". She is fantastic. If I r...

It's time for another book from the Long Reading List. Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas by Jane Mayer and Jill A...

It is a source of pain for me that - every now and then, when checking blog stats - I see that "10 reasons you should be watching G...

Since November 9th I have been reading a lot. One interesting thing was learning that in 2014 Republicans had put a lot of money into st...

Lisa Fischer is a vocalist with a career spanning decades. I made a note to check her out after seeing her recommended by Trudy , a...

The Night is a Portland rock band with a punk sensibility. The attitude feels punk, but they do not have the traditional speed. My ...

Things didn't go according to plan, but then there kind of weren't plans, and it ended up being fine anyway. I did initially wa...

For long-time readers with good memories, I have been building to this post for a while. I finally finished Susie Orbach's Fat is a ...

Saturday I participated in the March for Equality and Justice. I said that I would when I was writing about the Women's March. I...

Krista Hartman is a Canadian solo artist. She followed me shortly after Ron Sexsmith did, and they have one collaboration in her cat...

Brandon Jeffries is a singer-songwriter from North Carolina . While the emphasis is on him and his guitar - his appearances are ofte...

Last weekend I did something for only myself. I thought today I was going to write about that, but I think I need to spend some more tim...

I did get into a spirited discussion about protesting. It focused on one person's hatred of protesters because of flag burning, even...

I did not participate in the march Saturday, for reasons that were both time-based and ideological. I'll get into that tomorrow, but...