My “á”
The importance of the properly punctuating my last name was driven into me as a young child by my mother. As she would take any opportunity to label all my possessions with from lunch boxes to pencil bags with a piece of masking tape reading “Benjamin Hernández”.
Is “Cool” Dead?
Recently I heard an interview on my local NPR station KERA with musician and author Ted Gioa who wrote a book called “The Birth (and death) of Cool“. He talked about trends in culture and the public’s mindset over the past few decades and how there has been a shift recently.
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Also tagged in cool, gioa, hipsters, jazz, miles davis, Ted Gioa
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Top 10 Albums of 2009
As promised here’s my list of best albums of the year 2009 edition. Admittedly 2009 was a bit of a dry year for me music-wise, I’ve stayed pretty buys. But I did manage to find some time to work on this list.
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