SoundCheck: A Trojan Amp

SoundCheck: A Trojan Amp

by | Jan 17, 2008 | Music

There's something in the way guitar wood smells, something in how old amps diffuse the scent of burning dust and mellowing speaker cones that draws in guitar players. Sure, it's all about chords and arpeggios and scales and the like, but there's also an...
An Aching Heart

An Aching Heart

by | Jan 17, 2008 | Music

Bettye LaVetteJan. 23 at the Iron HorseThis year the Grammy Awards are turning up the heat with blast-furnace-voiced Bettye LaVette. At 62, LaVette performs with the energy today’s 20-something wishes for. Her nightly theatrics erupt into a high energy 90-minute...

Connecticut Zippy Code

by | Jan 17, 2008 | Arts

 Walk a Mile in My Muu-MuuA Zippy the Pinhead collection. By Bill Griffith (Fantagraphics Books, $18.95)Yow! Every fall, East Haddam-based cartoon dadaist Bill Griffith compiles a book of the past year of his Zippy the Pinhead strips. The non-sequitur-spouting...

I'm, Umm… Canadian

by | Jan 17, 2008 | Arts

Imet my first liar in Morocco. On an overnight bus ride from the desert headed north to Marrakech, we had stopped in a small town for a dinner break. Several people remained on the bus to relax or attempt to catch some sleep, including a tourist across the aisle whom...