Starving Artists Pictures

In some ways the 80's were so self indulgent that the negative stigmas and calamity born out of that time, especially when we remember bands that made headlines, were worn proudly like badges. The music you identified with most was your symbol. If you were a metal head, the Devil, wasn't just a major character in the scene, but was a unifying symbo […]

Long gone are the days when people could make millions of dollars off of record sales. Long gone are the days when established musicians can even walk around and be discovered or even rediscovered in a small club (the same clubs that they suddenly find themselves in years later possibly still fresh from the memories of days gone by when they literally stood […]

Today I feel closer to Atheists than I do Christians. Maybe it's for all the right reasons or maybe it's for all the wrong reasons, I don't know yet. I do not deny the struggle I have, at times, of trying to reconcile the random acts of subtle hatred I see all over the country in the name of a faith that I've held dear to my heart since c […]

There's an old saying. If you don't have anything nice to say don't say anything at all. A couple of days after Jeremy Lin and the New York Knicks lost their first game in the Lin era there was the line, “Chink in the Armor” posted on the ESPN mobile site. Was it an intentionally racist statement? Probably not...He is a person who should be ju […]

For those that haven't been paying attention, Jeremy Lin is the first Chinese American born player to play in the NBA. In short he was overlooked by most colleges before he played for Harvard where he was a standout point guard. Despite this he went undrafted by the pros before gaining an opportunity to play for the Golden State Warriors. He got very li […]