Mixed Meters

After using a Commodore 64 for several years I purchased my first PC in 1989.  It was an Everex Step 386.  It got raves in all the computer...

On September 16, 2005 - exactly five years ago today -  I posted the first three articles to this blog Mixed Meters.  Yes, three in one day....

Sometime last year I was looking for a book to read.  I picked up Leslie's copy of Trilobite, Eyewitness to Evolution by Richard Fortey...

My friend John Steinmetz sent me an excerpt from the book Mirrors, Stories of Almost Everyone by Eduardo Galeano.   The excerpt is about a...

In a November 2008 press release Placido Domingo, Los Angeles Opera's leader, optimistically announced   Ring Festival LA will be a de...

Recently, Leslie's old copy of The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov surfaced from some boxes of books in the garage. I decide...

Recently I wrote about Composers of the Nazi Era by Michael Kater the third book in a fascinating trilogy about Nazis and music.   I'v...

(This is a sequel to my previous post Suppose Wagner Had Been a Jew ) When Richard Wagner and his Ring of the Nibelungs is discussed the...