As a white guy from Montana, nobody is looking to me for guidance on racial issues, and for good reason: there are aspects of life in Ame...

It's certainly been true for me: month two really has gone faster than month one. I wasn't expecting to make it through a second month of...

This has nothing to do with music. With ESPN desperate for programming, they've been showing a documentary about Michael Jordan and the 9...

For reasons that are probably 45% enjoyment, 45% education, and 10% masochism, I decided to watch the Metropolitan Opera's free daily ope...

So I was looking at the AVclub's best albums of the 2010s, and I was mildly disappointed to see that everything they chose was what is so...

I've already written a little about why the late Gunther Schuller's The Compleat Conductor is such a mess. The main premise - that you sh...

Thank you for visiting my new website. (And thanks to Emily Wolfram for her beautiful work putting it together.) Here you'll find videos ...