Jeffrey Nightbyrd Shero
Aug 11, 20205 min read
You Can't Go Home Again, Parts 1 & 2
Part One Crash. The statue of Robert E. Lee comes tumbling down. Sir Donald says “NO MORE! I’ll protect our history from mobs of ultra...
Bill Bentley
Aug 6, 202011 min read
Bentley's Bandstand / August 2020
Dedicated Men of Zion Can’t Turn Me Around When gospel music comes rolling out of the ozone and takes over, it always feels like a bigger...
James BigBoy Medlin
Aug 5, 20202 min read
WHY NOT? / What is Real?
Editor's Note: Due to a software glitch, this piece will appear both here, as a stand alone article and also as a part of the Coronavirus...
James BigBoy Medlin
Aug 3, 20204 min read
WHY NOT? / Movie and a Pizza
I think the last movie I saw in a theater was ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD. Loved it. Since then, thousands of people have asked me...
Jeffrey Nightbyrd Shero
Aug 3, 20203 min read
You Can't Go Home Again, Part 3
John Lewis gave us more than his body. He gave his soul. As a late teen, around 1960, from the small town of Troy, Alabama, Lewis decided...
Various People
Aug 3, 20205 min read
Coronavirus Chronicles / Reactions in a Time of Plague
An Ongoing Series A compendium of thoughts, reflections, asides or just whatever from a variety of writers, artists & everyday folks,...
Danny N. Schweers
Aug 2, 20201 min read
Photo Prayer / August 2020
The spring equinox has passed, but the hesitant roots of the ferns have yet to send forth fresh shoots. The old fronds still stand,...
J.R. Helton, with Introduction by Michael Taylor
Jul 20, 202045 min read
BOOKS / Below the Line (excerpt)
Every now and then I run across a book that reverberates from start to finish with the unflinchingly brutal honesty that can only come...
Michael Ventura
Jul 18, 20206 min read
Ventura at 4am / The Horrors in Portland are 'Legal'
Last night Jazmin showed me a feed from NPR about federal officers in unmarked vans cruising Portland, Oregon, and (her word)...
Michael Taylor
Jul 17, 202010 min read
A Little Magic on the Boulevard
We were exhausted as darkness fell on Hollywood Boulevard, our third location of a long day that started out on a helipad atop a building...
Bill Bentley
Jul 13, 202011 min read
Bentley's Bandstand / July 2020
Bob Dylan Rough and Rowdy Ways “Today tomorrow and yesterday too / the flowers are dying like all things do…” Bob Dylan has done hoodooed...
Christopher Brown / All Photos: Christopher Brown
Jul 9, 20205 min read
FIELD NOTES / Wotan on the Beach
The first time I came to Port Aransas, I found the bayside nature preserve by following the simple rule of walking away from where...
Curtis Milam / Philadelphia Inquirer
Jul 9, 20202 min read
OUTSIDE SOURCES / Thanks to the President
Since his election, Donald Trump has been a mirror, held up to us Americans and propelling us to ask: How did we get here? I am the son...
Bill Bentley
Jul 9, 202013 min read
Bentley's Bandstand / June 2020
Marshall Chapman Songs I Can’t Live Without When it’s time to throw some black cat bones and light the voodoo candles. this new Marshall...
James BigBoy Medlin
Jun 29, 20203 min read
WHY NOT? / Nothing Happening, So Much Going On
(not a poem, just a prattle) ~ with apologies to Bob Wills and Asleep at the Wheel ~ Who's that guy with the red tie on? Some folks call...
Danny N. Schweers
Jun 25, 20201 min read
Photo Prayer / July 2020
Look at me! Look at me! cry the blossoms of the weeping cherry. I was on my way to watch morning prayer on the Internet when the flowers...
