Citypaper Catch-Up

Foremost among the pieces I've written for the Citypaper over the past few months was the Fall Guide feature on Dear Old Captain Noah, for which I got to go hang with the Captain and Mrs. Noah at their house in Gladwyne, with a sidebar on the new Please Touch Museum. I also did features on bassist Todd Sickafoose, documentarian Frederick Wiseman, Germantown's Beyer Stained Glass Studio, guitarist Marc Ribot, Dean Ween's fishing show, Canadian banjo picker Jayme Stone, The Residents, and West Chester's Guerrilla Drive-In; reviews of CSNY Deja Vu, Bottle Shock (including an interview with filmmakers Randall Miller and Jody Savin), Woody Allen's Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Hamlet 2 (including an interview with Steve Coogan), What We Do Is Secret, I Served the King of England, How To Lose Friends and Alienate People (including an interview with Simon Pegg), and Oliver Stone's W.

Metro Catch-Up

Metro subjects over the past few months have included: Robyn Hitchcock, Judas Priest's K.K. Downing, a Julie Andrews interview that unfortunately isn't online, the New Pornographers, Tommy Chong, Squeeze's Chris Difford, Kinky Friedman, Ben Folds bringing his orchestral act to the Mann, Motorhead's Mikkey Dee, Keith Jarrett in the inaugural edition of Metro's new weekly Guide to Arts & Culture, Chuck Palahniuk, in town promoting the film version of Choke, the Carolina Chocolate Drops, PMA's Thomas Chambers exhibit, Dennis Quaid, in Philly promoting The Express, and Danzig's 20th anniversary tour.

Daily News Catch-Up

Ok, I've been particularly neglectful of this blog for the past... three months now. A combination of a busy patch of work, running off to get engaged, and starting production on a documentary about pianist Jimmy Amadie pushed this site well into the background. So rather than noting every word I've written over that time, here's some highlights of each paper.

Daily News has slown down lately, but I've written features on Return To Forever's reunion tour, with a sidebar on Philly's own Stanley Clarke, and this year's Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe.