Tag: John Burdick Village Voices

It’s the best thing that can happen when you write — a wild, enriching dialogue between your purpose when you ...

Sir Paul McCartney turns 78 today. He breathes melody. Plays the snot out of every rock instrument. Sings like a ...

I noticed that one of the band’s two lead guitarists had grown into an excellent long-from improviser. Clearly, he had ...

We are being manipulated, baldly and with our full consent, as the revelation of the Cambridge Analytica scandal and the ...

It was so New Paltz: wild, hedonistic, skewed, inconstant, a little dark, mostly free, this close to intellectual, this close ...

I don’t know what I have. I’m from the pre-diagnostic age. Something's up, and brain science is real, but diagnostic ...

The first time you looked at the night sky and asked with your whole body “Why is there anything?” will ...

Many people who are retired find they don’t know what to do with their time. I’m writing letters for the ...

It’s a good thing to reconcile your own creative impulses with the waves they have made or have failed to ...

Webber and Rice could have moved from their first collaboration, the tepid but often pretty Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor ...

Is it possible that people will perforce learn to conceive and execute creative projects as never before? Will we see ...

The county fairgrounds are so positioned in relation to the Village of New Paltz — down and to the left, ...

While the melody is beautiful, in the mouth of a man the lyrics read like little more than the complaint ...

These are not necessarily happy times for Romantics and poets like me, and you.

The ugly if glorious Bronx-Zoo years of Reggie Jackson and Billy Martin ended when Thurman Munson crashed a plane he ...

To buy a house. The act requires a better verb, one that gets at the cellular-level grafting of a sentient ...

A vetted and substantiated “against” is practically a prerequisite for any good “for.” That expansion/contraction, generative/critical, for/against dialectical rhythm seems ...

I was afraid I would like writing, that essays would start humming in my head on my walks instead of ...

I was brought up to believe unquestioningly that reading was healthy, good for you like spinach,  and virtuous. I now see ...

Alternative spirituality still seems to be a way for the upper classes to feel purified, cleansed of complicity in the ...