Patti Austin * Talented, Smoooooth

Knew the voice, but didn’t recognize the tiny woman singing. I was watching a TV special devoted to Ella Fitzgerald and I was listening to Patti Austin! She lost an enormous amount of weight, but, thankfully, she didn’t lose her voice and was great as usual.  She started singing at age 4 and had...

Alfred Hitchcock Retrospective * American Movie Classics – Sun. 9/16 thru 9/29

“There is no terror in the bang, just in the anticipation of it.”  Alfred Hitchcock Partial AMC TV listings below courtesy of AOL. (Sometimes 2 movies a day – double features!) *The Birds (1963) Tippi Hedren, Rod Taylor, Suzanne Pleshette Mon Sep 17 08:00P / Tue Sep 18 05:30P *Dial M for...

"Because Only Demons think in Straight Lines"

Says Joe Ray, a wonderful artist I met at the family day at the new “Tempe Center for the Arts” this past weekend. His work is lush with color and fun. There may have been over 5 thousand people who visited on Sunday and I shook hands with a couple of hundred so my arm tells me....

The Spy Next Door

  I finally got around to seeing “The Lives of Others” which I enjoyed. First as a kind of mystery and second as a foretelling of what life for us would be like if we continue down our current path. I’d like to think that this country of red white...

Mercy Mercy Mercy

Joe Zawinul, co-founder of Weather Report passed away yesterday. I’ve been listening to Zawinul for about 40 years and Weather Report is part of a weekly diet of music played while I work. He is gone but we still have the music. That is the difference that art makes. ...