For a few days each spring and fall, while the increasingly volatile meteorological pendulum swings from frozen sewer to sweltering garbage heap, New York City enjoys perfect weather. September 11, 2001 was such a day, and so is today — 60 degrees, not a cloud in the sky, and an unheard-of ratio of smiles to [...]
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Bonnaroo 2007
Dancing in the Sunshine is Serious Business
Bonnaroo is exhausting. Sixty hours after the last notes wafted into the Tennessee air, my feet, back, legs, skin, and head have barely recovered. In 2004, a tremendous storm left me drenched, tentless, and barefoot in ankle-deep mud. But it doesn’t take a major meteorological event: if the thunder [...]
Off to the Roo
Even though a certain red-headed guitar player is conspicuously absent this year and only a single surviving member of the Grateful Dead is performing, I’m packed and ready for Tennessee. Where else but Bonnaroo am I going to be able to catch The Slip, Wilco, Ornette Coleman, Gogol Bordello, Hot Tuna, Mavis Staples, David Cross, [...]
Midweek Roundup
The noosphere grows a lot more self-aware with the advent of IM/SMS nanoblogging site Twitter. Make an account, hook up your phone and/or chat client, and send 140-character updates to your friends. Resistance is futile — and no fun. For the bar-hopping crowd, there’s Dodgeball.
The 300 debate rages on: roundups at GreenCineDaily and IFC Blog. [...]
