“We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus, and nonbelievers. We are shaped by every language and culture, drawn from every end of this Earth.” – Barack Obama 1/20/09 There have been a lot of inspirational words spoken by our relatively still new commander and chief over the past couple of years [...]

Nigel Sifantus It has been a little over a year now since I picked everything up and moved my family 3000 miles away from our familiar east coast roots to chase after the California dream that so many before us have sought after. When we arrived, we had really no idea where we were, just [...]

In light of President Obama’s speech last night, and all the recent insane chatter on the healthcare issue, I have been reflecting on my own experience with our country’s “health care system.” Although I have lived a relatively healthy life (I did break my leg when I was 5) heath insurance, or a lack thereof [...]

The L Maestro Presents show in Cleveland on Sunday the 16th quietly ended an almost year long hiatus from performing for me, the longest I’ve gone without performing I believe since I was around 7 years old, performing contemporary classical music at the Rivers music school. Sure I had sit in at a couple of [...]

I was listening to NPR on my way home yesterday (yes since there is no music worth listening to on the radio any more I nerdily am usually listening to NPR these days) they were doing a bit about “classic summer jams” and discussing what were this year’s big summer hits. An amazing fact was [...]