Most of my subscribers know me as a writer, but I've had a serious hobby as a songwriter and sometimes performer going all the way back to the 1980s and really even further back than that. My songwriter persona was Lightnin' Stubblefield. As Lightnin' I recorded three albums on a low end Tascam four-track home recording studio and distributed the tapes, duly outfitted with cover art in the cassette format, to friends and family. The sound quality was decidedly low tech, wi

JP Barreda staging his sculptures at the Microscopic Theater last Saturday Our April 28th salon featured three sculptures from J P Barreda's Mesedoras (rocking chairs) series. The sculptures, which are re-workings of all the parts of rocking chairs, drew exclamations of approval from the double-sized crowd in attendance, and sparked lively conversations throughout the evening. I asked J P about the significance of the rocking chairs having been discarded and in derelict con