crime and R&B

I write about radio for The Boston Globe, and so over the last few days I’ve witnessed a lot of schaudenfraude in the industry (along with jokes about “pay for play”) that Eliott Spitzer was going to clean up. But now that I hear that the woman at...

“Remember that day, summer past?”

Last night, the incomparable crime drama “The Wire came to an end. Some people got lost in the flood, some people got out all right. But one in particular breaks my heart. If you saw it, you know what I mean. Thoughts? (The New York Times’ take.)On another...

Georgia on my mind

The wonderful David C. Tucker interviewed me for the DeKalb County Public Library blog today. How nice! Also up today, my review of “Mozart’s Ghost” for the San Francisco Chronicle.Soundtrack for today: The HorrorPops’ “Heading for the...

“You look good, girl”

Say goodbye to the gangbanger girls. This week, we’ve lost Snoop as well as Margaret B. Jones. Both were fictional, but only one was a work of art.

Sleuthfest!

Well, it’s that time of the evening here in lovely Cambridge, Mass., when the day’s wet snow/freezing rain storm has begun to glaze the sidewalks, turning our charming brick sidewalks into so many uneven picturesque death traps. But even though I learned,...