By CHARLES ANDREWS
I USED TO BE FAIRLY NORMAL
Then I started writing this column, seven years ago.
Now I never know what to think, or what anyone else in
By CHARLES ANDREWS
DID I FEEL THE EARTH MOVE?
I’d be remiss to not mention an extraordinary music event I witnessed last weekend.
My wife Diane Michelle, a spellbinding
By CHARLES ANDREWS
KEEP HOPE ALIVE
I often — too often, these days — come back for strength to that signature quote from Rev. Jesse Jackson, from decades ago, and he still
By CHARLES ANDREWS
I was privileged to have seen her perform once in the mid-’80s, playing piano and singing in a small jazz club in Silver Lake named Mark’
By CHARLES ANDREWS
THE OTHER SHOE
Has finally dropped. Is it a game changer? Or just an adjustment, a gnat to be flicked away by our entrenched corruption cabal here,
By CHARLES ANDREWS
Grammys coming up Sunday at Staples, all those music stars here have time on their hands, some inevitably pop up and perform at local venues, just for
By CHARLES ANDREWS
Seven things to choose amongst Friday, country-blues-rock-folk-classical-jazz -- well, six, then you can still make the Easy Rider midnight movie -- what exquisite torture. More, please.
HIGHLY
By CHARLES ANDREWS
OF COURSE I DIDN’T GO
To the “City Council Retreat” last weekend.
It’s not that I’m shirking civic responsibility. And I don’t judge
By CHARLES ANDREWS
TO ACCOMPANY GREAT MUSIC
Or you can have a fine time just being really close and catching every nuanced note from great jazz musicians, as was the
By CHARLES ANDREWS
MONEY
Power. And the power money brings.
I’m writing this column on the day we celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr,’s birthday so it is
