Category Archives: All Stories

Today we launched the new February issue of Trust Me, I’m A Scientist, the music magazine for music-makers. I’m especially excited about this one because it’s our first issue with new associate editor Blake Madden. (Blake is a musician who writes plays in the fantastic Seattle synthrock outfit Hotels. He’s also the author of a […]

Went to a show at Carnegie Hall last night. The main hall, Stern Auditorium. Maria had 4 students on stage. It’s a phenomenal space, and insanely well-funded. I’m not usually big on pomp and opulence, but I have to admit that there’s something seductive about that room. It made me want to tell the world: […]

“Pretentious” is one of those words you don’t hear a lot once you reach adulthood. It’s always popular with the young folks, but by certain age people seem to stop using it very much. Maybe some day we’ll find the hidden Holden Caulfield gene, and scientists will explain that there are dedicated neural circuits called […]

As a culture, we put a lot of emphasis on the successes of precocious young talents. This is especially true in the arts. I’ve known many ambitious, talented young people who have tracked their development against the Glenn Goulds, the Mozarts, the Truman Capotes and the Kurt Cobains. This is rarely a good idea. We’ve […]

Storytelling is the first art. Without it, other arts would still have come to exist, but none of them would have thrived.