By Lionel Rolfe The death of keyboardist George Duke at 67 last week brought back memories of the ‘70s when…
By Lionel Rolfe Venice, CA: A City State Of Mind by John O’Kane. Hard cover edition is $26.95. The traditional…
By Lionel Rolfe As bombs were blowing up in Boston last week, I was sitting in my doctor’s office in…
By LIONEL ROLFE Pat Derby, founder of Ark2000, a 2000-acre refuge for elephants in the Mother Lode where at least…
Text By LIONEL ROLFE & PHOTOS BY SUSAN MCRAE Sonji Kimmons came--one of the greatest of the unheralded blues pianists…
Phyl Van Ammers recently talked to Lionel Rolfe, the author whose most recent book is, “The Misadventures of Ari Mendelsohn:…
By Lionel Rolfe The death of Ravi Shankar last week made much mention of his close friendship with the violinist…
By Lionel Rolfe A few months shy of my 70th birthday, I pulled my tired body full of aches and…
By Lionel Rolfe Now that they have found the “God particle,” maybe it’s time to solve far lesser but still…
By Lionel Rolfe I met up with my old friend Gerald Nicosia the other day at Beyond Baroque in Venice…