Paste Magazine’s Indie Rock Alphabet Book by Caren Kelleher, Kate Kiefer, Rachael Maddux Illustrations by Owen the Owen. Late last year Paste, the finest music/arts/culture magazine in existence today, released it’s first kid’s book. The “Indie Rock Alphabet Book” is most definitely not the first musical themed A to Z […]
On Saturday, the first ever Kid’s and Family Music conference will be held in Brooklyn, New York. It’s called, um, STINK. I’m rather excited to be a part of the experience, which includes panel discussions on promotion, booking, distribution and TV/books/etc.. Panelists from Little Monster Records, PBS, Cookie Magazine, Putumayo […]
I didn’t stock up on bottled water or buy a power generator before Y2K. I made no plans to carry a rifle and hunt for my own food beginning on 1/1/2000. As a rule, I tend to not freak out when stuff like Bird Flu, SARS or what-have-you dominates the […]
Two Sundays ago the Mrs, the Bear and I built our own raised veggie garden. It’s a 3×6 rectangle and 10 inches deep. This isn’t our first trip down vegetable road. We failed miserably last year, our patch being overtaken by weeds and bugs. We didn’t understand much about how […]
Monsters in My Head has announced an exciting new monthly contest. All your kid has to do is grab a colored pencil/crayon or two and draw a WorryWoo Monster (either an interpretation of an existing Woo or a unique, brand new Woo) and your little one can win an autographed […]
Congrats to Brooke, Heather and Ginny! You’ve each won a Scholastic Treasury DVD!
On the way into the theater today to see Adventureland I spotted the poster for Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs. As soon as I got home I found the trailer. Wow, this film looks absolutely terrible. Take everything pleasing about the book – grandfather spinning tall tale of Chewandshallow, […]
I’ve been neglecting to write about this for far too long. There is a very important musical competition taking place at this very moment (one that Simon Cowell isn’t involved with, thankfully). You have until April 27th 2009 to cast your ballot in the 2009 John Lennon Songwriting Contest. There […]
