Indie Vibes & World Tribes: music, film, travel and...

Is the new celebrity-studded 'Tidal' subscription music service, supported by the likes of Jay Z, Madonna, Beyonce and music...

I guess I’m a sucker for spectacle.   I’ve been known to watch the Olympics opening ceremonies (just leave out the smoke machines, please),...

“Hendrix of the Desert:” don’t you just love that name they try to hang on Vieux Farka Toure’, son of Ali, son of Ishmael and Mariam?  Ye...

Have you ever noticed that the best travel writers never really considered themselves as such?  Look at anybody’s list of favorites ...

  My glorious career as a music promoter lasted a total of one band (I count time in personalities, not days-months-years).  ...

Primero, Segundo, Tercero, Cuarto, Quinto, and… and… Sixto, ahhhh…  And the sixth time was a charm (not that the first five weren’t)...

It’s horrible, of course, the war currently going on in Mali, the desecration of Sufi shrines in Timbuktu, and the disruption of...

Traveling through space is geography.   Traveling through time is history.   I just finished reading the Travels of Marco Polo and ...

It is the best of times; it is the worst of times.   We make love to our iPhones and our egos, while begrudging food...

I’ve often speculated that our golden age—like many others before it—must sooner or later be followed by a corresponding dark age o...