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Who were some of the musicians that influenced you as you grew up in Washington? In my teens, I used to listen to Billy Eckstine's band. He had all the great players - Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, anyone you can mention probably went through that band. The drummer was Art...
Did Blakey help persuade you to take up the drums? Yes, that and a friend of mine who lived in the neighborhood. He used to come to my house; I had a few jazz records we would play and drum on the table with our knuckles. (Read a TIME review...
Even in its earliest days, Wikipedia had to reckon with a slew of problems. Among them were vandalism and the lack of a fixed formula for determining what should and shouldn't be included in an encyclopedia unconstrained by physical limitations. The emerging community included a volunteer army of editors...
And thus began a friendship that lasted a quarter-century. We spoke regularly, usually on Mondays when he was down in Bethany Beach, Del. Novak loved to dish, yes, and his column, with its vast reach, had its uses for people all over town. But he pushed me to think...
What's more, Syria doesn't risk much going to bat for Paris now, since Iran is likely to spring Reiss and Afshar anyway. Tehran has used the women in the way it wanted to: as symbols of the supposed foreign planning behind the postelection protests. The bigger question is...