JOHN BARTUS: EVEN IN MODERN TIMES, LIVE MUSIC IS STILL SPECIAL
This really should be the Golden Age of Music. Recorded music is so easily available. Nearly any commercial recording is available online as a stream or a...
JOHN BARTUS: REMEMBERING JIMMY BUFFETT
It was a shock last Saturday to wake up to the news of Jimmy Buffett’s passing. This year of 2023, which has seen the passing of way...
JOHN BARTUS: TWENTY YEARS LATER, HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO THE WEEKLY
2003 — twenty years ago. Seems like just yesterday … and yet it seems like two decades on. George W. Bush was president and the second Gulf...
JOHN BARTUS: HALL OF FAME SLIGHTS
Rolling Stone magazine co-founder Jann Wenner was recently booted from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s Board of Directors for comments he made recently while promoting...
JOHN BARTUS: GUITARIST STEVEN MILLER NEEDS OUR HELP
I first saw Steven Miller playing guitar in a nightclub in Islamorada some 30 years ago (or thereabouts). I had stopped in after playing a gig in...
JOHN BARTUS: MLB’S WORST UMPIRE NEEDS TO GO
There have been a lot of stories that define this Major League Baseball season (including a postseason appearance by our own Miami Marlins). Yankees pitcher Domingo German...
CANCER SUCKS: MARATHON’S STRIDES WALK IS THIS SATURDAY
Cancer sucks.
It is such an insidious beast, often lurking within until it’s too late. My mother passed away after a long fight against cancer in 1999; my...
JOHN BARTUS: TWO BIG EVENTS IN MARATHON HELP KIDS GET CHRISTMAS
One of the (many) things I love about my wife Sarah is that she is among the kindest and most generous people I’ve ever known. Whether it’s...
JOHN BARTUS: SCRAP EVERYTHING DONE AT THE QUAY TO THIS POINT?
Let me begin this week’s column by stating that I have the utmost respect for our current City Council. To a person, I believe every individual occupying...
KEYS HISTORY: PROTECTIONS IN PLACE FOR A TURTLE SPECIES ONCE HUNTED FOR FOOD
The turtle industry in the Florida Keys has performed something of an about-face. Once upon a time, sea turtles like the green, hawksbill and loggerhead, among others,...
