I'm just back from seeing The Mask of the Jaguar King, by my friend and colleague Stuart Warmflash, in a theater just north of New York City. This is a powerful piece of theater, and I would love to bring Stuart to the salon to discuss this and other of his works, and his life as a playwright. I spoke with him and we're hoping to schedule a salon event next spring -- a long ways off, but worth the wait if we can pull it off. Here's a link to a review of the current producti

Music Historian Bill Kopp, who presented our salon event on September 24, 2016, has just announced the upcoming publication of his book, Reinventing Pink Floyd. From Bill's Facebook post: "In early 1968, Pink Floyd found itself without its charismatic leader, frontman and primary songwriter. With the departure of Syd Barrett, so too did the band's management leave. But less than five years later the group would create one of the most critically and commercially successful al