Music

Barzin, the talented singer-songwriter, poet, all-round good guy, and friend of Life Elsewhere alerted us to a new compilation he had contributed a previously unreleased cut to. If Barzin was involved it had to be...

Brandon Bush, (an Atlanta, Georgia musician), spent 14-days in quarantine after being exposed to COVID-19 following his interactions with Tom Hanks and his wife (Rita Wilson). In an blog posting in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, a...

Earth Day is an annual celebration that take places on April 22nd. The 2020 Earth Day celebration will mark its 50th anniversary. The purpose of Earth Day is to bring awareness to environmental concerns. More...

“The undercarriage of chairs and tables in a typical interior makes an ugly, confusing, unrestful world. I wanted to clear up the slum of legs.” A quote from Eero Saarinen, the acclaimed Finnish-American architect and industrial designer...

Good Friday is celebrated annually for many around the world. In 2020 Good Friday is on April 10th. Good Friday is defined as the Friday before Easter Sunday, on which the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ...

Being on “lock-down” is a common phrase associated with prison inmates being confined to their cells. However, being on “lock-down” can also mean:  the act of controlling someone, that a situation is taken care of, ...

“United we stand, divided we fall” is a popular saying which means that many people who join together as a group are much harder to defeat than they would be separately. Another popular saying is, ...

“Out of sight, out of mind” is an idiom that is believed to date back to the 13th century.  It has been defined as, “when something or someone cannot be seen, it is easy to...

After November 8, 2016, first came the sadness; then came the rage, the activism, and the protests; and, finally, for thousands of women, the next step was to run for office – many of them...

Maya Angelou once said, “Won’t it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book.  Just U.S. history“.  In addition to Angelou’s...

“Would you listen to this again?” We asked the jurists after playing each new release. We didn’t want boring answers, so we selected three guests we knew would provide intelligent, and entertaining critiques of every...

Since February 1926, there has been a corporate celebration of Black History in America, which has evolved over the years to become officially known as “Black History Month” or “African American History Month”.  However, despite...