JUSTIN ROBERTS LULLABY The girls were over my parents, having just seen their Team USA Olympic gymnastic heroines live and in-person. I came over the next day for dinner, to pick them up and bring ’em home. In my experience, it’s always dicey leaving my parents’ house at night with […]
The esteemed list of 15 was revealed this morning! The best kid’s CDs of the year (defined here as 11/1/11-10/31/12) as voted on by the judges in the annual Fids & Kamily Music Awards were announced on Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child today. Forget whatever crappy jewel cases sit […]
Jennifer Gasoi Throw A Penny In The Wishing Well On one hand, Throw A Penny In The Wishing Well is not the kind of album I’d expect the Bear to warm too. She is 8 1/2 after all and, well, I dunno where I’m going with that. The thing is, […]
Todd McHatton Presents Marvy Monstone’s Mysterious Fun Time Dream Band Being in a bubble is a cozy thing; insular, warm, immune from judgement. Inside there is the world, all of it, and there is nothing else to envision. Reality extends only to the edges of how far we wish, or […]
ELSKA MIDDLE OF NOWHERE I’m no rabble-rouser. I don’t incite debates nor do I intentionally cause awkward situations, but holy hell do I love to witness them and, on occasion, throw myself into the uncomfortableness of it all. When a polarizing idea/person/project/situation comes to the forefront, I am not afraid […]
RECESS MONKEY IN TENTS Tiny moments. I want nothing more than to recognize, rejoice in, and remember forever the tiny moments; to pick them out of air before they vanish into the ether, to scoop them from the mouths of babes, and to collect them all in a burgundy velvet […]
LUNCH MONEY SPICY KID You could almost see it. You could almost imagine pulling open one of those secret compartments on the side of a child’s jewelry box revealing the inside of that itsy bitsy space designed to hide away not much more than a stray fallen gem from an […]
SECRET AGENT 23 SKIDOO MAKE BELIEVERS You know the story of that Neil Young album? The one he made on his way out of a record contract, after an already tense album release; ’twas an LP meant to satisfy a requirement. Turns out, it wasn’t quite Neil Young-ish enough to […]
