by Bill Schlesinger When trees are used for biomass energy, they are first pelleted, then dried and shipped to a power plant—all energy consuming activities. When burned, all the carbon…
Wolf Spider by Kevin T McEneaney Faces of wolf spiders are quite hairy. Gross insect biomass in Germany has declined by seventy to eighty percent over the past thirty years.…
by Kevin T McEneaney After a two-year pandemic suspension of Vassar College’s BACHFEST, its Artistic Music Director, Christine Howlett, raised her baton to conduct the Vassar Chorus & Orchestra presented…
The assembly As a contemporary Presbyterian, I find the Roman Catholic service to be so laden with mythological dogma that has it has no relevance to the present. In the…
From left: Daniel Stepner, tenor Frank Kelley, soprano Kristen Watson by Kevin T McEneaney This unusual Aston Magna concert featured a double bill: Naples-born Alessandro Scarlatti’s “Humanity and Lucifer” (1704)…
by Kevin T McEneaney I regret to report today’s problem: large party of asparagus beetles whooping it up, consuming all green fronds, so long stalk leaves look like gray skeletons…
Daniel Stepner Preview by Kevin T McEneaney I spoke to virtuoso violinist Daniel Stepner, Artistic Director of Aston Magna for the past thirty years, about his upcoming series of concerts:…
by Jim Flaherty There are no perfect Fathers. Okay, okay, I apologize. That broad generalization is a personal reflection. And this essay is focused on earthbound 20th century fathers, not Heavenly…
Zhu Wang at the keys. Photo by Brian Keeler by Kevin T McEneaney Pianist Zhu Wang was introduced by Artistic Director Shuhui (Sophia) Zhou who noted that Zhu Wang won…
Kazemde George, Tyron Allen II, Kayvon Gordon. Photo by Tonia Shoumatoff by Kevin T McEneaney When it comes to jazz, the first image that appears with enhanced approval in my…