“Photo Opportunities” – Book Review
“Photo Opportunities” by Madeline Yale and Corinne Vionnet (Kehrer Verlag)
Photo books are an intriguing corner of the publishing world. As the world glides toward the fully digital, ... Continue Reading →
A Prince Among Stones: That Business With the Rolling Stones and Other Adventures, Prince Rupert Lowenstein (Bloomsbury)
One of the most unlikely pairings in rock and roll is a titled prince taking over the finances of the Rolling Stones. In this breezy autobiography, Prince Rupert Lowenstein tells that ... Continue Reading →
Spotlight on Big Band Music with the Sportsmen’s Lodge fun-loving Johnny Holiday Program
The Johnny Holiday Program at the Sportsmen’s Lodge Events Center in Studio City, California, was off to a great start with two shows over the past two months. Music lovers who were ... Continue Reading →
LIFE IN COLOR: National Geographic Photographs, curated by Annie Griffiths
With a veritable treasure trove of photography in its vaults from decades of devoted collecting, National Geographic has taken a clever approach in this lush coffee table book. The ... Continue Reading →
Book Review: Mary Wells: The Tumultuous Life of Motown’s First Superstar
Mary Wells: The Tumultuous Life of Motown’s First Superstar
By Peter Benjaminson
Chicago Review Press
Mary Wells, best known for her 1964 hit My Guy, was Motown’s first female ... Continue Reading →
WAGING HEAVY PEACE by Neil Young (Blue Rider Press)
If anyone was going to place a bet several decades ago whether the era’s popular musicians would be writing intriguing autobiographies many years later, the odds would have been rather ... Continue Reading →
FUTURE PERFECT: The Case For Progress in a Networked Age, by Steven Johnson
The first book I read by Johnson (“Everything Bad for You is Good”) turned my head 180 degrees about everything from video games to TV. The next book I read by him (“Where Good ... Continue Reading →
BRIGHT LIGHTS, NO CITY: An African Adventure on Bad Roads With a Brother and a Very Weird Business Plan, by Max Alexander
This book tells the amusing tale of two brothers who venture to one of the poorest countries on the planet in an effort to apply some Yankee entrepreneurship to a crippling problem. ... Continue Reading →
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