Baby Beats & Beyond: Rockin’ Out with Justin Roberts & the Not Ready for...
[photopress:jr58_1.jpg,full,alignright]Since I once studied Japanese one summer at Foothill College, the campus has always had very academic connotations for me. But this morning, Justin Roberts and...
View ArticleTheater Critic Karen D’Souza on View from the Bay
Holiday theater unwrapped. Catch me on View from the Bay tomorrow between 3 and 4 p.m. on ABC-7. I’ll be giving out my five cool picks for holiday theater. These are the perfect stocking stuffers for...
View ArticleBaby Beats & Beyond: the Laurie Berkner Band’s Rocketship Run review and...
[photopress:TTCD08.JPG,thumb,alignright]Laurie Berkner’s latest album, Rocketship Run, was released in early August and makes for great Thanksgiving weekend road trip listening on a couple of...
View ArticleBaby Beats & Beyond: Yo Gabba Gabba!’s self-titled debut album review
[photopress:Yo_Gabba_Gabba__cover.jpg,thumb,alignright]The last time I saw my sister and her family, I thought I’d try to play the cool children’s music columnist and introduce them to Yo Gabba Gabba!...
View ArticleBaby Beats & Beyond: Talkin’ Holiday House Partying with singer-songwriter...
[photopress:dan1.jpg,thumb,aligncenter]Photo by Arthur Elgort When I rang up Dan Zanes on his mobile phone Wednesday morning, he asked if I could do him a huge favor and call back in ten minutes. When...
View ArticleBaby Beats & Beyond: impressions of Dan Zanes’ Holiday House Party World...
[photopress:DZ_bench_2008hires.jpg,full,pp_image] (l-r: Colin Brooks, Sonia de los Santos, Dan Zanes, Saskia Sunshine Lane, John Foti, Elena Moon Park; photo by Gala Narezo) I seem to always get a bit...
View ArticleBaby Beats & Beyond: an interview with Leonard Nimoy
[photopress:Peter_and_the_Wolf___Leonard_Nimoy.jpg,thumb,alignleft]When I worked as a lowly overnight DJ at a small Contemporary Hit Radio station in Laramie, WY, one of the more tenured on-air...
View ArticleBaby Beats & Beyond: 2008′s Top 15 Children’s Music Albums (nos. 15-11)
One of the pleasures of 2008 was getting to work with and eventually meet the great international music journalist Ernesto Lechner. Over dinner with him and Counselor Josh Norek (another new friend...
View ArticleBaby Beats & Beyond: 2008’s Top 15 Children’s Music Albums (nos. 10-6)
Did everyone have a happy New Year’s Eve? Did you and your young ones manage to stay up through midnight? As promised, here are numbers ten through six of my favorite children’s music albums of 2008....
View ArticleBaby Beats & Beyond: A Few Remarks About My Top 5 Children’s Music Albums of...
This list is admittedly a bit anti-climactic, since the choices were already revealed on Thursday. But I wanted to add some thoughts on each of my selections in this far-less-pressed-for-space forum:...
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