The next edition of Everyone’s a DJ is tomorrow night, and chalk it up to booking in July, but I’ve still got a number of spots to fill. So far we’ve put a great bill together, with a lot of new faces on board, and I’d hate for those remaining spots to go to waste. […]

I didn’t want to say anything about this until it was official, but today I got the final word. Starting the week after next, I’ll be taking Mondays off and cutting back to a four-day week at the office. My company’s been tightening up the purse strings, and although I don’t want to bore you […]

Hey, remember the other day when I told you about the signup form I built for Everyone’s a DJ? Well, this morning I added a similar form to the Strong Words website. We’ve been talking about listing other local readings on our site, and this is the form that people can use to submit them. […]

As you may have already heard, local DJ and radio personality Martin Streek committed suicide in his home last night. Eye Weekly has the story. I’ll admit that I haven’t been listening to Edge 102 much in recent years, and I hadn’t even known until today that they let go of Streek and fellow on-air […]

Recently I got into the habit of buying one new disc a week. I didn’t want to fall behind on new music, and I figured it was better to buy than to download. While I’m at it, I thought, I might as well start reviewing what I’m hearing – if only to have one more […]

Naomi Klein recently called for a boycott of Israel. Speaking from the village of Bil’in in the West Bank, which she was visiting as part of an ongoing promotional tour for her book The Shock Doctrine, Klein clarified that what she’s calling for is “a boycott of Israeli institutions… a boycott of the Israeli economy.” […]

I promised you big news from the Everyone’s a DJ camp, and now I’m glad to be able to share it. On Sunday, 19 July 2009, we’ll be hosting our first all ages event at Whippersnapper Gallery from 2:30 PM to 9:00 PM. All proceeds will benefit East Metro Youth Services, a community based children’s […]

Spots are now available for the Saturday, 11 July 2009 edition of Everyone’s a DJ, and signing up for a set is now easier than ever. Late last night, I launched an online form that DJs can use to request a set as much as three months in advance. All you have to do is […]

After almost eight months of appeals and recounts, it’s official: Al Franken has won the hotly disputed 2008 Minnesota Senate race, following the concession of Republican opponent Norm Coleman. Coleman’s 215-vote lead on election night prompted a recount, which Franken won. Coleman appealed the decision, but today the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled unanimously in Franken’s […]

In the same issue of Newsweek that I cited in my last post, there’s a review of a recent book by one Denis Dutton called The Art Instinct. It’s a book about creativity and evolution, and it’s one of a number of recent works that tries to define the way we think and behave in […]