Easy Ed

This photo of John Sebastian is probably from about forty years ago and it's how I remember him to look. Or at least it was until I saw him last year in that great jug band documentary film Chasing Gus' Ghost. Like the rest of us, he

It's been a few weeks since me and the older kid worked a couple of shifts at the local film festival and we, along with my wife and younger boy, got to spend three days and nights watching close to thirty-something films. Shorts, animation, features and documentaries. And

Step #8: Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all. Step #9:Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others. You may recognize that these two particular steps listed above

Back when I was a vinyl junkie there was always a tattered piece of paper folded in my wallet that constituted my “want list” just in case I passed by a record store and needed to be reminded. By the time I quit collecting, the list was actually pretty short.

My Facebook page has been loaded with posts from my Minneapolis friends about Lucinda Williams' marriage the other night to Tom Overby at First Avenue. Several years ago Tom was one of the buyer's over at the Best Buy corporate office in Eden Prairie, and he and