POSTED // May 22,2013 - Yogi Berra was right: It is déjà vu all over again. After a 16-year absence from this column, I’ve now had four submissions accepted—an honor not lost on me, especially as it comes nearly four years into my return to City Weekly.

POSTED // May 9,2013 - Willie Nelson had a birthday April 30—no doubt one that was filled with gifts, wrapped and/or rolled.

POSTED // Apr 3,2013 - My late uncle had a saying that always made me laugh. “I’m going out among ’em,” he would declare, usually as we were piling into the car heading to a sporting event.

POSTED // Mar 20,2013 - A white business executive on a recent flight to Atlanta slapped a 19-month-old black boy and called him the N-word. He was charged with assault and subsequently fired from his job.

POSTED // Feb 20,2013 - According to some estimates, lightning strikes Earth more than 3 billion times a year. In my brother Kevin’s life, it has struck at least twice.

POSTED // Nov 15,2012 - The storied blues highway running from the Mississippi Delta to the North is not a one-way road, as Adam Gussow can attest.

POSTED // May 10,2012 - Most musical instruments are not primarily associated with one particular style of music, especially in these days of cross-cultural collaborative adventures. The exception is the harmonica.

POSTED // Mar 20,2012 - When Rick Welter died Monday, March 12, his name was sadly added to all of the legends commemorated in the chorus of Art Neville’s “Six Strings Down” ...

POSTED // Nov 30,2011 - Kristen Merrill is considered the doyenne of singers in Salt Lake City. She died peacefully in her home Monday, Nov. 21.