Death is one moment, and life is so many of them. Tennessee Williams This was one of the first years since returning from California in 2005 that I did not attend the Tennessee Williams Festival. The reason – dinero no hay. I let lapse my MOMA, NOMA, Ogden, City Park, Pitot House, and everything else membership because charity begins at home when you are starting over. I was reading that Tennessee died in 1983 and…
The Tennessee Williams Festival started on Thursday and it is always one of my favorite festivals in the city – and this from a city whose festivals never quit. Yesterday morning I went to a panel discussion on one of my favorite authors, Walker Percy, and listened to three Southern writers discuss The Moviegoer. The feelings this all aroused was a watershed of my first wanting to write at the tender age of 20, my…
I ran into two women I see at yoga all the time and one asked me what are you doing here as I was at a panel discussion (Tennessee Williams Festival) on writing about music and the question seemed so odd and so I stammered, “Well, I’m a writer and you know, well what are you doing here?” The one responded, “We’re on the panel.” And then they moved towards the stage. I stood waiting…
Thirty-seven days to Jazz Fest, but who is counting? Today begins the Tennessee Williams Festival and this year we’re celebrating his 100th birthday. Tom McDermott and Evan Christopher have a new CD and they are playing together @ 6PM at the Botanical Gardens in City Park. Chuck Perkins joins others to kick off some spoken word at One Eyed Jack’s in honor of Tennessee Williams @ 8PM.