by Christine | May 21, 2013 | Welcome Column
I was born and raised a southerner, but I have very strong connections to the city of Boston, Massachusetts: the “Athens of America”, “Bean Town” or “Our Fair City” as Tom and Ray Magliozzi refer to it. Tom and Ray (of NPR fame)...
by Christine | Mar 28, 2015 | Welcome Column
Coca Cola does it, Disney does it, Southwest Airlines and almost every major corporation doing business anywhere in the world does it. That is to create a loyalty, among consumers of their product, so fierce that they’d rather “fight than switch.”...
by Christine | Sep 15, 2015 | Welcome Column
Coca Cola does it, Disney does it, Southwest Airlines and almost every major corporation doing business anywhere in the world does it. That is to create a loyalty, among consumers of their product, so fierce that they’d rather “fight than switch.”...
by Christine | Dec 2, 2019 | Welcome Column
This is a reprint of the PorchTal column.Master Fiddler Brandon GodmanBrandon is a Kentucky native master fiddler and relatively new transplant from Nashville to San Francisco. He has played with greats such as Dale Ann Bradley, Melvin Goins, Karl Shiflett, Doyle...
by Christine | Oct 24, 2003 | Welcome Column
At 5:30 a.m. this morning, Lynn informed me we were going to the cow cafe for breakfast. It’s actually named something else but we call it the cow café because the entire décor is done in post-modern bovine—cow place mats, cow coffee cups, cow wall hangings and...
by Christine | Nov 27, 2012 | Welcome Column
Last week I took my banjo apart, right down to the smallest pieces. It was the scariest thing I’ve ever done, but I felt like I had to do it sometime, and I had put it off long enough. I am in the childhood of my banjo life, something like preschool age, and I...
