AltWeeklies Wire
Arlo All Alonenew
With the presidential primary season in overdrive, I had to ask this icon of the flower power era for his take on the current campaign.
Port Folio Weekly |
Jim Newsom |
02-07-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Arlo Guthrie
Playing off the Pagenew
On their most recent CD, A Love Supreme, the Turtle Island Quartet dropped the word "String" from the middle of their name.
Port Folio Weekly |
Jim Newsom |
01-31-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Better than William Shatnernew
"I was always writing songs," Jeff Daniels said when he called a couple of weeks ago, "god-awful bad songs. I kept them in a notebook."
Port Folio Weekly |
Jim Newsom |
01-31-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Jeff Daniels
Doug MacLeod: Call Him a Blues Mannew
MacLeod has a great blues voice, filled with the hardscrabble grit of the Mississippi delta.
Port Folio Weekly |
Jim Newsom |
10-31-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Doug MacLeod
Kathleen Grace, a Late Bloomer, Blossomsnew
She is in the vanguard of a small but exciting movement of young jazz singers who are, in her words, stepping "outside the box of the American Songbook into the world of original music."
Port Folio Weekly |
Jim Newsom |
10-17-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Kathleen Grace, Songbird
'The Big Con' Examines the GOP's Crackpot E-Con 101new
Alan Greenspan's The Age of Turbulence may have been getting all the publishing headlines lately, but Jonathan Chait's book is actually more noteworthy in its analysis of the Republican economic revolution of the last three decades.
Port Folio Weekly |
Jim Newsom |
10-04-2007 |
Nonfiction
Sharing the Giftnew
Since being introduced to much of the world by Paul Simon in 1986, Ladysmith Black Mambazo has made it in many ways, winning two Grammy awards and garnering numerous other nominations and honors.
Port Folio Weekly |
Jim Newsom |
03-08-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Arlo Guthrie's Family Businessnew
As he approaches his 60th birthday, Guthrie is both the finest folksinger of his generation and one of its most entertaining performers.
Port Folio Weekly |
Jim Newsom |
02-21-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Arlo Guthrie
