Color My Missives

Intentional cultural poaching or no, ODB Liquors on Mission Hill in Boston might be the most keenly named individual business I’ve come across. I can think of no better tribute to the man and his work.
 

 
The name has to be intentional, right?
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[1] I’ve just spent the past half-hour recapping ODB’s career on youtube. If NSFW […]

Access is that most elusive quality that is granted to some who wield cameras. The best seem to command it of their subjects instantly, effortlessly. The rest of us work for every scrap we can get and hire the best camera people to buttress ourselves. Perhaps as a cheat, a short-circuit, we who shoot things […]

It wasn’t the first time that I’ve bought music in a subway station. The Drumadics seem to know how to make a thursday afternoon groove.

Getting those long exposures working always feels good. This shot is from The Exit’s show in Boston last week. Out of town gigs are never easy on the lumbar region, but at least there is the show. Here’s an earlier interview I did with the band.

When the Falling Stars first appeared in the fall of 1996, the occasion was an open mic night on a college campus and the lineup was different from the group that would eventually perform dozens of shows over the next two and a half years.