Yes, yes, I know. Sonny Rollins is 83 today, and Rifftides is joining the celebration late. There is a reason but no excuse. We jump on the birthday bandwagon by bringing you Rollins playing an extended version of a tune his mother remembered from her girlhood in the Virgin Islands. "St. Thomas" has … [Read more...]
Archives for September 7, 2013
Other Matters: How About A Little Courtesy?
For a couple of hundred years, newspapers used courtesy titles. Many papers that equated Abraham Lincoln with the devil often wrote about “Mr. Lincoln†or “The President,†even as their editorials pilloried him. Up until about the time of Ronald Regan, in news columns and in radio and … [Read more...]