Tuesday at the Bryant-Lake Bowl was an excellent start to the Hometown Tour. (Or the “Staycation Tour” as my friends have dubbed it.) I’ve played there before and I dig the “tiny theater” that they have. I haven’t seen many …

I’ve been thinking about multi-tasking. I’ve never believed in it, never thought I saw anyone doing it well, or even actually really doing it. Never could do it well myself, anyway. Lately there’s been a lot of talk about new …

I was drinking espresso after lunch at my newly discovered favorite cafe in Minneapolis, Common Roots, and reading a book that my brother gave me recently. The book was “The Freedom Manifesto,” by Tom Hodgkinson, and it is an inspiring …

A reader pasted this quote as a comment on my recent post about file-sharing. “When someone downloads a piece of music, it’s just data until the listener puts that music back together with their own ears, their mind, their subjective …

I saw a really interesting and amazingly civil discussion online about the question: “Is illegally sharing music immoral?” The link is here:http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/todays-question/archive/2009/07/is-downloading-music-illegally-the-same-as-stealing.shtml After reading the thread I got excited about posting a comment, but my comment got super-long, so …