I am generally not a big fan of “jam band music,” not because out of some tiresome problem with hippies but because, in my experience, it rarely delivers on its meager promise. I want the band to jam, and they just never seem to do it. More...

Much has been made about The Curious Case of Benjamin Button being curiously similar to screenwriter Eric Roth’s biggest hit, Forrest Gump. Sure, each film’s lead is an unusual man with unusual circumstances who meets the love of his life as a child before going off on a series of adventures and returning when his mother passes away. But this case is a far bleaker and more poetic affair. More...

I feel like a hypocrite saying it, but I’m blue about Living Foods packing it up. This month marks an end to the neighborhood health food store, founded near the Perkins Road overpass in 1980. More...

Two weeks ago, I was looking for an obscure book from a tiny publisher. I needed it to research an article and a nonfiction book proposal I'm working on. I checked the library and its copy was checked out, so I called Danny Plaisance at Cottonwood Books on Perkins Road. More...