We’re looking forward to seeing you at the Philly Local Live Broadcast from World Cafe Live tonight (February 28). It’s the one year anniversary of Philly Local to the XPN airwaves (congrats!) and Helen has put together a terrific bill for the broadcast (listen live tonite at 8PM) featuring Birdie Busch, Codename, Caryn Lin, The [...]

is this an easy way to share feedback? I’m working on the Leicht Lunch for today Monday 2/27for the Noon hour… taking some calls/emails/blogs/ for George Harrison – birthday wishes…. Just received a call from Tony in Philadelphia for“While my guitar gently weeps”….that’s now scheduled Blog line now open….suggestions are welcome thanks for your ideas [...]

Today’s Word of the Day means hard to understand. It’s abstruse, derived from two Latin roots that mean to push away or conceal. You could as easily apply the word abstruse to lyrics as to mathematical calculations. It’s an adjective that popped into my head when I was eating strudel yesterday — strudel comes from [...]

For years, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame didn’t deem the Sex Pistols worthy of inclusion into its ranks. Now that the Sex Pistols have gained entry into the club, they’ve decided the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame isn’t worthy of their presence. However, in a crude letter posted on its Web site [...]

One of the many phrases that came directly into English from French is today’s Word of the Day — idee fixe. It literally means fixed idea, and refers to something that dominates someone’s thinking, or the national consciousness, especially over a period of time. In other words it’s an obsession. Some idees fixes lead to [...]