Well, for sure, Kansas has lots of corn… but is it “corny?” Where’d that come from? Never one to pass up an etymological riddle, I knew just who to ask: “the Google” knows all, tells all. And if you care to do the homework, there’s a market buck in it for ya. I’ll give you two clues for free: jazz, …
Lansdowne guitar hero Steve Gunn memorializes his ‘Stonehurst Cowboy’ father on ‘The Unseen in Between’
Dan DeLuca | @delucadan | ddeluca@inquirer.com Steve Gunn’s excellently titled new album is called The Unseen in Between. The title of his most personal work to date has multiple layers of meaning for the Lansdowne-raised songwriter and guitarist, who headlines at Johnny Brenda’s with his band on Friday. “I was pulling my hair out what to call it,” says the 41-year-old musician. “It refers to years …
Everything Old is New Again…
Summer, at least this close to the Jersey Shore, isn’t official until the tomatoes start rolling in faster than we can eat them. I grew up with the Big Boys, the Early Girls and the Beefsteaks that grew in most backyards, everywhere from the sticks to the city. Whatever the variety listed on the tag, we just called them all …
Bounty and the Bees
Anybody besides me standing in the kitchen this week yelling, “eat some of this fruit!”? I thought so. Who hasn’t gotten home from the market only to realize that they can’t possibly consume this much fruit in a week. It’s mid-July and Mother Nature is kicking up the production schedule. She has a job to do and only a few …
Let’s Talk Trash
I’ll get to what’s in at the LFM…but let’s, for a minute, talk about what needs to be out. So let’s talk trash…as in plastic waste. This just in: July has been officially designated “Plastic Free Month”. About time, I’d say, to kick the petrochemical habit. The earth is drowning in the stuff. Literally. It took us a few decades …
Celebrating With a BANG!
This is the BIG one. By the time you’re reading this, and if the weather gods have smiled, we’ve already done our share of flag- and hand-waving along the parade route…we’ve marched and biked, strummed and mummered, or just sat on the same curb we always have…with the same friends and family. Tradition! And from the Fourth and the fireworks, …