Author: Knoxville Progressive

Continuing our look at the generation of jazz artists that came after Miles Davis, John Coltrane, etc. we’ve got (by request, if I recall correctly)… Return to Forever Return to Forever was a jazz fusion band of the...

If you missed this story in yesterday’s Washington Post, it’s worth violating your Newstrike! resolution to go see.  It’s about the Whitney Biennial, and while I’m certainly not one known around...

I haven’t been a Catholic for several years now, but there are some aspects of the religion of your upbringing (hell, of your first 40 years) that get under your skin.  It’s become almost a truism or something...

You knew there would be something coming to draw press attention off the real news; it appears to have arrived.   AUSTIN – AP – A University of Texas student found a substance that has tested positive for ricin,...

If I told you that there was a global environmental cycle that humanity had seriously affected, with potentially catastrophic effects, you’d say, “Sure – the carbon cycle; carbon dioxide and methane emissions...