I write about jazz, roots & international music for the San Jose Mercury News, SF Chronicle, San Francisco Classical Voice, https://xitter.cf/t.co/9URyFuOVx5, and others...
Berkeley, Calif
Joined December 2011
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Is there a more useless and unrevealing species of story than the "people didn't find this comedian funny, in fact they're problematic"?
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I’m a @NewYorker fan but not a fan of this: ripping a local reporter’s hard work combing through records with no attribution.
@caitycoyne spent a very long time tracking how WV spent opioid settlement money.
Good story but give credit.
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After surviving a ruptured brain aneurysm and seven surgeries, Christelle Durandy returns to the stage with a tribute to Latin America’s women composers. sfchronicle.com/entertainmen…
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Ahead of her Bay Area concerts, Lila Downs opens up about Grateful Dead fandom, grief, healing, her new album and a Lifetime Achievement Latin Grammy. sfchronicle.com/entertainmen…
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After surviving a ruptured brain aneurysm and seven surgeries, Christelle Durandy returns to the stage with a tribute to Latin America’s women composers. sfchronicle.com/entertainmen…
You never know who's name is going to come up in a conversation with Judy Collins.
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Four years ago, I launched The Berkeley Scanner. Since then, I've been in the crosshairs of a high-profile politician, expanded City Hall coverage and launched a second site, Albany Scanner. I've now covered Berkeley news for 14 years. So grateful for the support and excited for year five! berkeleyscanner.com/2026/09/…
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It’s taken half a century for Ken Light’s first Bay Area project to come fully and gloriously to light — his intimate portrait of West Oakland’s Black community in the 1970s in ‘Soul City: Oakland U.S.A.’
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El Cerrito musician Alec Palao discovered unheard David Bowie recordings from 1965. Ten of the tracks are now being released for the first time. sfchronicle.com/entertainmen…
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Northern California musician Alec Palao discovered unheard David Bowie recordings from 1965. Ten of the tracks are now being released for the first time. sfchronicle.com/entertainmen…
thank god for responsible musicians. this was a close call for humanity...
I resigned from @TheBandCracker today. I spent three years doing prerecording research at both @TheBandCracker and Camper Van Beethoven. Neither band is acting responsibly. They are racing towards a self-improving Punk-Ska-Americana supergenre and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.
The Grammy-winning Gen Z jazz singer @SamaraJoy99, made deep cuts thrilling at her S.F. Symphony debut sfchronicle.com/entertainmen… via @sfchronicle
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This is unusual: a Washington Post columnist is calling for the prosecution of the newspaper’s sources
Perhaps you’re in the market for an Imperial Walker? Or the head of a wampa, the furry white creature that menaced Luke Skywalker on the ice planet of Hoth?
Friday might be your lucky day. Read all about the liquidation of legendary Tippet Studio
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Loved this @DollyParton story from legendary bassist Leland Sklar...A Brief History of Harry Potter, @jk_rowling ...
Is San Francisco losing its soul? While the city is increasingly buffeted by the social and economic forces unleashed by AI, an old-school analog instrument is ensuring that a foundational force in funk, R&B, gospel and soul jazz continues to thrive. missionlocal.org/2026/08/san…
The @nytimes understandably takes great care to cite earlier work by journalists who've reported on Barkan's lack of attribution, care the Times didn't take in the case of Arday scoops by @benryanwriter...strange.
nytimes.com/2026/08/19/busin…
My nomination for the worst mainstream account of the Arday tragedy. How does a @wapo reporter not discuss the coverup that drove the coverage? Or fail to mention the unraveling of his outlandish biography?
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