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Because watching yet another white guy strum his acoustic guitar is pretty much played out, I’ve got a really cool show planned for Thursday, May 20th. Do mark your calendar. I’ve rented a performance space at the very hip, very new age, exposed brick and hardwood floored holistic space at The Open Center on Spring…

The warm spring breeze that blew me home from the Upper West Side just now reminded me of the Caribbean. It’s not so much that I don’t relish being right here, right now, present tense in New York City. It’s just that it sent my senses reeling… Bermuda, 1985: Scooters, cliff-diving, and caving. Snorkeling, Man-o-Wars,…

A poodle walks into a bar with a pirate under one arm and a bowl of pudding under the other, turns to the bartender and says… “Aaaaaaargh! Got any Cool Whip?” It was that kind of night for The Smith Family: good tunes and bad jokes. It’ll be that kinda’ night a week from Thursday…

There’s nothing like some sunshine, blooming flora, and a coupla’ little kids to make a guy believe in love again. It was such a jam packed weekend. I don’t even know where to start. The theme was blue sky, fresh air, flowers and babies. I mean, what else is there? What could be better? I…

Sometime around the time this picture was taken at Smith Family rehearsal last night I thought to myself, ‘Maybe I’ve taken on just a few more projects than I can manage.’ I have five performances — solo April 24, Smith Family April 29, solo April 30, solo May 20, Cockfight May 21 — and a…

I just woke up from a particularly strange nightmare. So I decided to seize the momentum (me sitting straight up in bed in horror), get a run in, and get my Friday on. All of which is unusual as I stayed up extraordinarily late after a grueling Cockfight rehearsal, and a few hours writing and…