RIP Luciano Pavarotti, The Babe Ruth of Opera

At age 71, Luciano Pavarotti died today at his home in Modena, Italy of pancreatic cancer. He was a brilliant performer whose immense talent and public persona rose above his profession to place him in the pantheon of popular culture. Pavarotti is the single reason...

Afternoon's Tunes – Joshua Radin

I played in a band for more than a decade. I always thought (still do) that I was pretty good. I wrote a lot of song, each trying to out emotion the one before in some vain effort to prove that I was not the soulless robot that you all know me as today. I wanted to...