Author Archives: kmazz

Some time ago I remarked on this term, which seemed to capture so well my feelings about changes in the landscape due to global climate change. Maybe it is catching on. As this article states, solastalgia is a neologism that … Continue reading →

First cut: I went to the Obama rally here in PDX today. Got up at O’Dark to get in line early enough to get a good seat. Ate cheese sandwiches in the car on the drive down. It turned out … Continue reading →

I know Portland isn’t on a par culturally with Berlin, Shanghai, New York etc. But when international cultural figures come here, we really turn out for them. A more appreciative crowd there cannot be. And generally, artists and thinkers of … Continue reading →

After a long trying day full of situations that were fubar and snafu’d, we were rewarded with an evening with a living treasure, jazz Hall of Famer Ornette Coleman. The Schnitz was packed to the point of overheating, and that … Continue reading →

Here’s the gut-wrenching line from the Joe Nocera business column in today’s NYT: “Are you ready to face a world in which your two biggest assets, your retirement account and your home, don’t automatically go up?” As he points, there … Continue reading →