“You’re a rare bird....a very rare bird.” That wasn’t a compliment. It was a grave warning from a Philadelphia psychiatrist friend shortly after I moved there from that city of rare birds, New York. The Philadelphia Inquirer music critic position, which I took in 2000, offered a chance - the first in my multi-decade journalism career - to do the work that I knew I was … [Read more...] about Rare Birds in Uncertain Times