Okee dokee folks… Well, it is spring. The peepers are peeping early this year. Average waking time for them is right around Saint Patrick’s Day — I think that they like to get up for the party! Last year they were late and it was almost April before I heard their nighttime chorus. I love […]
Okee dokee folks… Officially we have about three weeks until spring. It may be hard to tell when it does arrive because of the screwy winter that we have had thus far. Flowers were blooming in the snow and bugs were buzzing. One day it was t-shirt weather and the next it was nine below. […]
Okee dokee folks … Last week I saw Bruce Springsteen in Boston thanks to the generosity of my friends Denise, Mike and Paula. (Thank you!) There was no way I could afford a ticket to that show even if I could have gotten my hands on one. All 16,500 tickets were long gone, but my […]
Okee dokee folks … Enough already! Death seriously needs to take a holiday … or move on to a new category of people. Our most talented artists are leaving much, much too soon. Lemmy, Frey, Bowie, Kantner … if this keeps up, we will be left with nothing but Kanye and the Kardashians. Scary. Here’s […]
Okee dokee folks … have we all settled comfortably into 2016? Hands? I have successfully written the date a couple of times on checks, and I made no resolutions, so I am all set. Besides, I have plenty of stuff left over from last year to take care of. Not resolutions, just stuff. When I […]
Okee dokee folks … This is my last column of 2015. This year really did fly by. Has anyone ever noticed that the older you get the faster time flies? Remember how summers seemed endless when you were a kid? Now, you blink and it’s over. I found that time passed much differently before I […]
Okee dokee folks … I had the opportunity to check out the Tedeschi-Trucks Band/Shawn Mullins show at the Providence Performing Arts Center this past Saturday night. Mullins opened the night with a solo acoustic set. The Georgia-born performer accompanied himself on guitar as he played songs from his recently released CD, My Stupid Heart and […]
Okee dokee folks… During this time of year it is tough to be a local musician or run a local music venue. Even the most loyal music fans get preoccupied with shopping and holiday parties, and their available entertainment budget shrinks. For some local musicians, performing is their livelihood and if people don’t go out, […]
Okee dokee folks … Every year it seems that I have to adopt my Ebenezer persona earlier and earlier. I don’t do Christmas. I haven’t for almost 30 years. It is hard for most to understand this, but I am not religious and I am not one for pomp. When Christmas music and decorations are […]
Okee dokee folks … I, like many, am a fan of stand-up comedy, though the style that I prefer has more of an intellectual edge — stuff that really makes you think. George Carlin and Bill Hicks were masters of this. Nowadays, it seems we get more truth from comedians — like Jon Stewart and […]