Book review: Richard Manuel: His Life and Music, from the Hawks and Bob Dylan to The Band
by Stephen T. Lewis The lives of the members of The Band, all of whom are no longer with us, have been heavily documented. Levon Helm started it off with…
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Book Review: The McCartney Legacy, Volume 2
By Allan Kozinn and Adrian Sinclair This is the second book of a series by Kozinn and Sinclair. I reviewed the first one here. Like the first one, it's a…
Book review: A Freewheelin’ Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties, by Suze Rotolo
This book was published in 2008, and the author died in 2011. However, the film "A Complete Unknown" has created a resurgence of interest in Bob Dylan and the 1960's…
Civil rights in Cuba and Idaho
You can attract police attention for practicing journalism in either place. I went to Cuba in 2014. Among the things I did there was to attend three baseball games -…
Book review: The Wild Horses of the Chilcotin: Their History and Future, by Wayne McCrory
I am stating up front that there is no pretense of objectivity in this review. The Chilcotin is my favourite area of British Columbia, and I had the good fortune…
What went wrong in the 2024 U.S. election
One of the candidates in the 2024 presidential election organized an uprising to storm the Capitol to prevent Congress from certifying the 2020 election result. There was a conspiracy to…
Book review: Beneath the Surface of Things, by Wade Davis
This is a collection of 13 essays by Canadian anthropologist Wade Davis. There isn't any overall theme to them, other than they are all well worth reading. Two of them,…
Book review: The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World, by Wade Davis
I have had the privilege of attending two lectures by Wade Davis, and he knows how to hold the attention of an audience. I have also read several books and…
Book review: The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World, by Wade Davis
I have had the privilege of attending two lectures by Wade Davis, and he knows how to hold the attention of an audience. I have also read several books and…
The Conservative Party of Canada’s spending reduction fantasy
I was listening to CBC Radio Monday afternoon, and the topic was the proposal from the Federal Liberal Government to increase Canada's capital gains inclusion rate from 50% to 67%…
The Conservative Party of Canada’s spending reduction fantasy
I was listening to CBC Radio Monday afternoon, and the topic was the proposal from the Federal Liberal Government to increase Canada’s capital gains inclusion rate from 50% to 67%…
Book review: Overlook: A Rock and Roll Fable, by Paul Smart
This is a story of two men on road trips toward Woodstock, New York in 1986. This is not the Woodstock made famous by a music festival; that was actually…
Book review: Overlook: A Rock and Roll Fable, by Paul Smart
This is a story of two men on road trips toward Woodstock, New York in 1986. This is not the Woodstock made famous by a music festival; that was actually…
Book review: George Harrison: the Reluctant Beatle, by Philip Norman
There are some stories I never get tired of hearing. One of them is the formation of the Jefferson Airplane; how they were rehearsing twelve hours a day and seven…
Book review: George Harrison: the Reluctant Beatle, by Philip Norman
There are some stories I never get tired of hearing. One of them is the formation of the Jefferson Airplane; how they were rehearsing twelve hours a day and seven…
Thoughts on the 60th anniversary of the Kennedy Assassination
I was 13 years old, and in band class when the announcement came over the PA system that President Kennedy had been assassinated. Ever since then, I have paid an…
Thoughts on the 60th anniversary of the Kennedy Assassination
I was 13 years old, and in band class when the announcement came over the PA system that President Kennedy had been assassinated. Ever since then, I have paid an…
Book review: Open, An Autobiography, by Andre Agassi
The obvious question here is, why have I written a review of a book that was published 14 years ago? The answer is, it’s the best sports book I have…
Book review: Open, An Autobiography, by Andre Agassi
The obvious question here is, why have I written a review of a book that was published 14 years ago? The answer is, it’s the best sports book I have…
Book review: Not On My Watch, by Alexandra Morton
This book (available here) was written by a remarkable and courageous woman, Alexandra Morton of Echo Bay, British Columbia. It has 335 pages (not including notes), but it took me…