by Jeff Maisey | Nov 11, 2018 | News, News & Views, Robotham
By Tom Robotham When it comes to food, people generally fall into two camps: those who live to eat, and those who eat to live. Those, in other words, who regard food as the greatest pleasure in life, and those who think of it as necessary fuel, in the same way that...
by Jeff Maisey | Oct 18, 2018 | CD Reviews, Music, Music News
Painting with Sound An Appreciation of Coming Home, the new CD by Justin Kauflin By Tom Robotham I’ll never forget the first time I saw Justin Kauflin perform. It was in 2004, at the Roper Theater in Norfolk, where he was playing with the Governors School for Arts big...
by Jeff Maisey | Jun 23, 2018 | News & Views, Robotham, Travel
By Tom Robotham Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. ~ Mark Twain. Whenever I feel the need to take a journey of some kind, I’m torn between two options: revisiting a place that I know...
by Jeff Maisey | Mar 26, 2018 | News & Views, Robotham
By Tom Robotham Teach your parents well / Their children’s hell will slowly go by. ~ Graham Nash In the immediate aftermath of the massacre at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, the debate over gun control began anew—but there was little reason...
by Jeff Maisey | Jan 19, 2018 | News & Views, Robotham
By Tom Robotham Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works… ~ The Gospel According to Matthew, 5:16 Last year at this time, I was struggling to process the news that my longtime mentor, Nat Hentoff, had died. (See ‘Thank You, Nat...
