Bill Bentley
Jan 21, 202010 min read
Bentley's Bandstand / Best of 2019
So many new albums released in 2019 undoubtedly prove that music is not only alive and well, but continues to make the world twirl ’round...
Jeffrey Nightbyrd Shero
Jan 20, 20201 min read
On Martin Luther King Day, 2020
Martin Luther King day. The news clips I see show portions of his prophetic 'I have a Dream' speech, and make him out to be a saint. I...
Tamim Ansary / Art by Dan Hubig
Jan 8, 20206 min read
World War III
The assassination of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani on orders from Donald Trump has many people asking: could this mark the beginning of...
Danny N. Schweers
Jan 2, 20201 min read
Photo Prayer / January 2020
Everything is new under the sun. Everything is just beginning. Nothing sits still. We are all in free fall, trusting we will bounce. ...
Bill Bentley
Dec 17, 201910 min read
Bentley's Bandstand / December 2019
Marc Broussard A Lullaby Collection SOS III For all-time soul singers who are always exploring new areas looking for songs, Marc...
Danny N. Schweers
Dec 17, 20191 min read
Photo Prayer / November 2019
The moon is an egg waiting to be hatched. Simple geometry is an oxymoron. Where do thoughts come from? Thoughts appear in our minds as...
H.H. Howze
Nov 21, 20195 min read
A December Night on the River: A Cautionary Tale
Be prepared. – Boy Scout motto I didn’t intend spending one of the last Saturday nights before I turned 70 trying to stay warm on a...
Danny N. Schweers
Nov 19, 20191 min read
Photo Prayer / November 2019
I love the way grass stems, blown back and forth by the wind, sweep graceful arcs across the sand. May we, blown by the winds of change,...
Bill Bentley
Nov 19, 201913 min read
Bentley's Bandstand / November 2019
Joseph Arthur Come Back World. If there is a present day hidden missile waiting in the rock ranks ready to explode, look to Joseph...
Danny N. Schweers
Oct 30, 20191 min read
Photo Prayer / October 2019
The old is always new and the new is always getting older. As soon as it appears, the new takes its place in time, which blesses it with...
Lizzie Widdicombe / The New Yorker
Oct 29, 20192 min read
Outside Sources / What Can We Learn from the Germans About Confronting Our History?
When Donald Trump recently tweeted a dark warning of a “Civil War like fracture in this Nation” were he to be impeached, it was further...
James BigBoy Medlin
Oct 28, 20198 min read
The Florida Years, Chapter II
When moving to a foreign country (in this case Florida), adjustments must be made. First up — getting one’s papers in order. The local...
Michael Ventura
Oct 22, 201911 min read
Ventura at 4AM / Election 2020 – Some Notes / October 2019
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY —– Missing the Point The most important element of the 2020 election stood unnoticed in plain sight from start to...
Stanley Crawford
Oct 9, 20196 min read
THE GARLIC PAPERS — A SMALL GARLIC FARM IN THE AGE OF GLOBAL VAMPIRES
Every tenderfoot city-bred person like myself would benefit by reading my friend Stanley Crawford’s new work, The Garlic Papers — A Small...
Bill Bentley
Oct 8, 201912 min read
Bentley's Bandstand / October 2019
Pieta Brown Freeway There aren’t any other singers like Pieta Brown. She has a sensuous way of blending the sound of air with music notes...
Bill Bentley
Sep 4, 201910 min read
Bentley's Bandstand / September 2019
Shane Alexander A Life Like Ours Is it possible to find an album that feels so right, so true, so, well, spiritual, that it feels like...