March 2006. I was out here just getting a paycheck working with a temp agency, working at one of the world’s top banks. New York City was beginning to change up, with Michael Bloomberg making his business acumen and an eye on maximizing the city for his cronies and tourist dollars shifting the atmos...

.Maritri. I’m starting this off in a way I think she would’ve liked, by posing a (paraphrased) musical question inspired by that famed song from The Sound of Music - “how to explain the light that was Maritri?” How, indeed. It still doesn’t seem real that my good friend has passed away. Not gonna li...

It’s remarkable to consider just how much podcasts are a part of our daily lives, but also how much most people aren’t fully cognizant about the industry or the concepts that go into creating podcasts of all scales. Next week, On Air Presents, a festival dedicated to the craft of storytelling and an...

Yes, there’s the saying that change is inevitable. But it gets thrown around to dismiss the way that change can, and does, affect you and what you love. What you’ve nurtured. All so you get used to losing things. But you’re not supposed to. I had these thoughts on a slightly warmer winter afternoon,...

(Photo Credit: Mark Metcalfe/Getty Images) There are never enough words…there will never be enough words to properly, honestly, memorialize the life, impact and genius of Michael Eugene Archer. That soul-stirring musical magician we all knew as D’Angelo. Being as how the news knocked me for a loop,a...