by Boothism | Arts & Culture, Essays & Commentary, Media, Music, Writing
Right now the music biz is living somewhere between the Blade Runner future and the Kitty Hawk past. On one side we’re at the dawn of a new tech age and battles to determine the shape of what’s to come are being waged on all levels-from the indie foot...
by Boothism | Arts & Culture, Essays & Commentary, Music, Writing
This is already snowballing into something bigger. I woke up this morning to the usual coffee, smokes and words and an article I’d been meaning to get to for a while. Back in March, over at Esther Ivereem’s excellent Seeing Black site, black American...
by Boothism | Arts & Culture, Essays & Commentary, Media, technology, Writing
When Mark Amerika created Grammatron 16 (?) years ago, who knew it would take the rest of the world so long to catch up? Still, you have no idea how exited this article in the NYT makes me-enough to get me blogging again after umpteen months. It’s always annoyed...
by Boothism | Arts & Culture, Essays & Commentary, Journalism, Journalism, Media, Writing
This is Bailey… Remembering Chauncey Bailey, newspaper editor, mentor and friend. By Kwan Booth (August 3, 2007-Novometro.com) Deadline nights in the newspaper business are sacred. Nothing compares to that last minute rush of writing, editing and designing, trying to...
