I'm mentioned in a New York Times article today, thanks to some consulting work I'm doing on the next edition of The AIA Guide To New York City, a book I own four copies of, one of each edition.

A friend of mine and musician in the local roots scene, Fran Leadon, is co-authoring the guide with Norval White, one of the deans of NYC architecture. I built them the content management system they're using to work on the text and the many accompanying photographs (You can read a bit more about that on my professional site) and a few weeks ago I volunteered to drive the two of them around Brooklyn to see all the new buildings.

Beyond that, New York City makes for wonderful random connections, like meeting a world-famous architect by virtue of the fact that I play bluegrass with a guy who is an architecture professor, and I love it. Fran and I have actually been in the Times before, but via music rather than architecture. I guess it's a twist on the old cliché: talking about architecture can come from playing music.

Next show is April 26 at the Greenwich Village Bistro, with Saboteur Tiger.