Jeffrey Nightbyrd Shero
- Aug 11, 2020
- 5 min
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, 2020
- 11 min
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, 2020
- 2 min
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, 2020
- 4 min
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, 2020
- 3 min
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, 2020
- 5 min
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, 2020
- 1 min
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, 2020
- 45 min
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, 2020
- 6 min
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, 2020
- 10 min
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, 2020
- 11 min
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, 2020
- 5 min
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, 2020
- 2 min
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, 2020
- 13 min
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, 2020
- 3 min
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, 2020
- 1 min
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...