It’s Blog Action Day, which means thousands of bloggers around the world will be writing posts about the very real, and sadly political, issue of climate change.
While news, green, tech, business, auto and the rest of the high-trafficked niche blogs will surely publish fantastic posts with lists and tips and talking points that fit within their subject manner, it seems only natural that as a personal arts blogger I stick to my own point of view.
And it’s this: A world that cannot sustain humanity cannot sustain the arts, cannot sustain …

So I’ve been coming out to the North Fork of Long Island every weekend for the past month, recording jazz shows and tasting the local wines. Sadly, though, it’s the last weekend.
Today I’m at Castello di Borghese winery to hear composer David Amram perform, and it’s fitting that this is the last. Amram, like me, is stuck creatively between music and words. Amram’s words are tied to The Beats, as an old friend and member of the gang Jack Kerouac made famous. But he’s since become well known for his …