The first time I met Michael Franti I was leaning against a sweat-covered swaying wall about ready to pass out from exhaustion inside the classic live New Orleans music venue the Howlin’ Wolf during JazzFest ’03, the best vacation of my life to date. It was 5:00AM, and I hadn’t slept in at least 48 [...]
Art brought us out of the Dark Ages. The sheer survival of the arts is not enough to keep our country in check. We are heavy with financial burden. We are exhausted from market anxiety. We are losing our minds. And all the while, we are getting dangerously closer to letting the art that keeps [...]
Me on Fourth of July Many Ions Ago Before I venture off into a great beer and barbecue abyss on this lovely 4th of July, I’m going to come right and say something that I haven’t felt compelled to express since I became an [...]
To find out how you can help the fight against cancer via Twitter, check out BlameDrewsCancer.com.
More and more people are creating innovative methods to promote their causes via social media. I recently met someone who’s taking his cancer fundraising campaign to the top of the Twitter stratosphere with every blame he breathes. To read my Causecast feature on the heartwarming and enlightening BlameDrewsCancer project, click here.
It’s no secret that I am adamantly against torture of any kind. And yes, Mr. Sean Hannity, I think waterboarding constitutes torture. While I understand why the Bush Administration went to extreme lengths in seeking information from our enemies after September 11, I cannot in any way condone or justify the practice of purposely inflicting pain, physical [...]
I interviewed the amazingly gracious actress and green activist Daryl Hannah last Friday. You can see my full Causcast article and video here. more about “Green Hero Daryl Hannah Knows When to…“, posted with vodpod
