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5 Great Grateful Dead Covers

Last year, I posted 10 incredible live recordings for the Grammys. This year, ahead of the music awards, which are scheduled for Sunday, I thought it would be fun to do another music-focused post. The theme: my favorite Grateful Dead covers. Hope you enjoy them, too.  “Brokedown Palace,” covered by [...]

February 2, 2023 admin Music & Arts, Travel & Culture 2

10 Incredible Live Recordings: ‘The Weight,’ ‘Deal,’ ‘All Apologies’

I know I’ve just missed the Grammy Awards, but I’m still going to use them as an opportunity to do a personal listicle: 10 of my favorite live recordings. Included are my top group, what I consider MTV’s single greatest contribution, and a nod to the recently deceased Don Wilson [...]

April 4, 2022 admin History, Music & Arts, Travel & Culture 1

The Frat House that Gave Us ‘Animal House’

You’d say there’s nothing extraordinary about — nothing worth writing about — an old, dilapidated fraternity house, and I’d agree. Except in this case. Because it’s the one that inspired Harold Ramis in his contributions to the script of 1978’s “Animal House,” which ranks high in my (admittedly small) cinephilic [...]

February 14, 2022 admin History, Music & Arts, Travel & Culture 0

My 9/11 Recollections

They aren’t anything impactful or otherwise of importance, but here they are. In ninth grade at Boyd Buchanan in Chattanooga. At far side of school’s relatively new high school building, coming from biology and rounding corner to walk into Spanish (about bottom right of this photo). Just outside Spanish, overheard [...]

September 11, 2021 admin History, Reflections, Travel & Culture 1

Florida Shorebirds See Breeding Bump After Hurricane Michael

In October 2018, Hurricane Michael and its Category 5 winds inflicted tremendous destruction to Florida, causing an estimated $18.4 billion in damage and an eventual 50 deaths in the state. More than a year later, human communities in the state’s Panhandle are continuing to struggle to rebuild, but some Florida [...]

January 14, 2020 admin Journalism/Communications, Nature & Wildlife, Travel & Culture 1

The Animal Collective

Scientists race to sample undiscovered species before they vanish — even as many sit on museum shelves. [...]

June 11, 2018 admin Journalism/Communications, Nature & Wildlife, Travel & Culture 0