Saturday night's concert of the fabulous bluegrass group the Steep Canyon Rangers was terrific — great musicians playing beautiful music against a stunning backdrop of Autumn finery at the Blue Ridge Music Center on the Blue Ridge Parkway.
“Kill the Messenger” is almost matter of fact in the way it stacks one level of revelation upon another, building a pyramid of conspiracy and deceit.
We arrived in Newark from London in late afternoon on Monday, temporarily wilted from the rigors of the cattle car aspect of the Friendly Skies, but more fundamentally refreshed and renewed by a visit to Britain that included about as much variety as was feasible for a visit of less than two weeks.
Individual lives, like all of history, have a tendency to divide themselves up into discernible periods; and in life as in history it is the transitional moment that is most difficult to define.
