One dumb thing I’m going to have to stop doing is getting all envious and annoyed when I hear of people born around the same time as me who have established careers and long lists of achievements to boot. Reading up on Turbulence‘s biography, I was shocked to see that the artist was a 1980 [...]
Ladysmith Black Mambazo, the South African singing group, entered my life in grand style through the speakers of my father’s Mazda, where Paul Simon’s Graceland cassette-tape was on heavy rotation for most of my childhood. The group with the crazy evocative name (But why is the man called Lady, Daddy?) was my first introduction to [...]
Poring over ancient photo archives earlier today (sweet procrastination, when you hold me), I was reminded that my photographic obsession with barbershops wasn’t much of a novelty. I found a pile of pictures I’d taken at New York Cuts, up on Castelneau street, in my old Villeray neighborhood. The shots were for a photojournalism workshop [...]
You gotta wonder what it is about hip-hop music that makes young people from every nation on earth (save perhaps the Vatican), embrace and claim it as their own. Today’s case in point is Mongolia. Admittedly, Ulan Bator, Mongolia’s capital, is probably not the first place you would go looking for young disciples of Run [...]