World’s Fair

Chinese Mornings: My Crowd-Control Summer
August 23, 2017

Every summer for the rest of my life may remind me of one particular summer a long time ago. Sometimes it’s an afternoon rain, or a bright humid morning, or an accumulation of sunburned people in silly T-shirts, and for […]

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The Thing Near Second Creek
April 27, 2017

The World’s Fair started 35 years ago this Monday. Today, the pundits who declare media as we know it is coming to an end, observe, as their most damning evidence, that “Kids today just don’t read the papers anymore.” Of […]

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Jazz Piano Genius James Booker’s Mysterious Knoxville Concert
December 1, 2016

Earlier this year a couple of readers alerted me to an electronic curiosity making the rounds. James Booker, who died in 1983 at the age of 43, was a genius of jazz piano, one of those musicians other musicians speak […]

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