Step IV!!!! Wow, that’s fantastic!

Outside the Tateuchi Democracy Center.

2025 Summer Institute A residential institute on updating the stories we tell about American music

NEH summer institute - application deadline March 3, 2025.

Every.Single.Page. on the UC Riverside website forces you to accept/decline cookies. It's enough to make me want to (1) not deal with the UCR website at all, and (2) go buy a bag of Ch*ps Ah*y.

Musicians take stock of their losses in recent fires | Press Play Poolside’s Jeffrey Paradise and rapper “Fat Tony” Obi both lost their homes and studios in the recent fires. Each vows to stay in LA.

Add William Roper and Bobby Bradford top this list.

On this day of all days, I love how the radio airwaves are full of MLK's sonorous voice.
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I’m reading Orhan Pamuk’s Memories of Distant Mountains, and of course ‘reading’ isn’t the right word because the notebooks are gorgeous, and the reader plunges into the drawings and the dance of words across the page and the act of translation. Reading about writing.

Bernell Butler was a key figure in the struggle to get justice for Tyisha Miller.

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Roper lost his home in Altadena last week.

I just dreamt that I was at the National Humanities Center but it wasn’t the glass palace in the woods - it was a multi-storied old house full of books that went on endlessly like the library in The Name of the Rose, and I got lost looking for my hidey-hole of a room, and I was late for a meeting.