Recently I uploaded a podcast of my interview with magician Michael Chamberlin and, like magic (or more accurately because I hit “publish” on WordPress) you now get an update on what Mike’s been doing since the interview. [display_podcast] This update was a bit delayed while Mike and tried to schedule…

Today’s podcast is magical. [display_podcast] It’s an interview I did in November 2009 with Michael Chamberlin, a magician who splits his time between living in New York and Washington, DC.  Listen to the podcast to find out how he got involved with the art of magic.

Jazz is one of the things New Orleans is best known for. But when I visited the city in August 2009, I found myself at lunch not with a jazz musician. Instead, I broke bread with rock and roll musician Buzzy “Beano” Langford, a member of New Orleans-based cover band…

Earlier this week, Jerry Gandolfo of the New Orleans Historic Voodoo Museum kindly shared a few minutes of his time to update me on his life in the two years since we ate together in New Orleans at the decades-old Court of Two Sisters restaurant. [display_podcast] Click on the player…

Today’s podcast is of my interview in August 2009 with Jerry Gandolfo, curator of the New Orleans Historic Voodoo Museum. [display_podcast] During dinner in the city’s French Quarter I learned about Jerry’s life story, which includes a stint in the military before he returned to his beloved hometown of New…

I had to call another country for today’s Where Are They Now? [display_podcast] Photographer Lars Stephan is an utterly likable fellow, as I learned when he and I shared supper in Brooklyn two years ago. What has Lars been doing since the interview? Your curiosity can be sated by listening to the…

Since moving across the Atlantic, I’ve been delighted by the number of public holidays Americans get to enjoy. So it was that yesterday I had Monday to myself thanks to the Labor Day holiday. I should have been productive with my time off and cleaned the house, maybe gone for…

Good things come to those who wait. At least, that’s the saying. Maybe my inherent impatience is the reason why the number of good things coming my way tends to be somewhat teeny. Regardless, actor Cecil Baldwin is an incredibly patient man. [display_podcast] In my interview with Cecil back in…

All the world’s a stage and something something. I don’t remember much of my English literature classes on Shakespeare except for my kindly old grandma of a teacher who hated confrontation, and would whisper the platitude “perceptive insight” in response to whatever thoughts you had about the Bard’s works no…

On Tuesday I uploaded a podcast of my interview with Mike Wilkinson and Alicia Wilkinson-Mehr, co-owners of Pete’s Apizza in Washington, DC. [display_podcast] Earlier this week I called Mike for a quick chat to find out how Pete’s has developed in the roughly two years since the interview.