A multifariously talented artist in the world of music, Argentinean Daniel Raijman takes the concept of being well rounded to the next level with his extensive resume as a leading guitarist and film composer. His skill as a musician has been eminent since his youth, but that doesn’t mean that he didn’t have to work […]
Pete Seeger in Phoenicia
On Sunday, July 15 John Stobaeus e-mailed me, "Do you know about the mini-folk fest in Phoenicia today at the Parish House? They’ll be celebrating the Roots of Folk," so I walked over to see. It was a reunion of Camp Woodland, a summer camp founded in this area in 1939, which continued until 1962. […]
Stroke Patients Sing Their Way Back to Speech
Stroke Patients Sing Their Way Back to Speech –Also: Good News for Bad Singers (below) By Leo Kretzner, San Diego, CA. February 21, 2010. Taking systematic advantage of an ability known about for a hundred years, the speechless are learning to sing their words – and finding they come far more easily that way. This was […]
Stroke Patients Sing Their Way Back to Speech
Stroke Patients Sing Their Way Back to Speech –Also: Good News for Bad Singers (below) By Leo Kretzner, San Diego, CA. February 21, 2010. Taking systematic advantage of an ability known about for a hundred years, the speechless are learning to sing their words – and finding they come far more easily that way. This was […]
Revisiting HillaryCare: What It Proposed and Why It Failed
As President Obama struggles to overhaul the health care system, an NPR poll finds that current public opinion on reform matches that of the Clinton era—people are dissatisfied with the system, but happy with their own insurance. They want change, but are leery of change for the worse. With the failure of a Democratic president’s […]
‘Joe the Plumber’ Movement Buoys the McCain Campaign
A new advertisement from the McCain campaign makes clear that Joe the Plumber is not just a man, but a movement, and could help the Republican candidate get a boost in the home stretch of the presidential campaign. Traction in Ohio With some polls suggesting that Ariz. Sen. John McCain is gaining ground in […]