My sister was born on February 3rd, 1982. Several weeks before she was born, my two and a half year old self suggested to my very pregnant mom that we paint the baby’s room black, despite the fact that there was no baby’s room, just the room that I would share with the impending [...]
The City of Angels has been both very good and very bad to my sister this week. In the very good department was her show at the Clairmont Colleges. She has some friends down there, and they brought a nice sized crowd out to hear Raina. On the very bad side was [...]
My sister did the first show of her tour last night, and my sources say that it went very well. She made $15 in tips and sold two CDs, which in my mind is an auspicious start to the tour. She is now down in LA at a folk music conference and had [...]
Occasionally some fun or interesting news about my sister and her burgeoning career as a musician floats my way, and I feel compelled to share it. The big news today is that she was asked to open for Johnny A. at the Aladdin in Portland, OR. The Aladdin is a 500 seat theatre [...]
Yesterday while I was driving home from work, my mind was clicking away, generating one great idea after another of things for me to write about in this space. But as we all know, it’s not the greatest idea to take notes while driving (especially on Kelly Drive) so I didn’t write any of [...]
