by Sheila Weller | May 24, 2021
Editor’s Note: Joni Mitchell’s album Blue was released in June 1971. Written and produced entirely by Mitchell, the album is one of the most influential works in history. Rolling Stone rated it as the third most important album of all time; the New York...
by Sheila Weller | May 19, 2021
Editor’s Note: In April 2019, NextTribe writer Sheila Weller wrote this interview with fiction writer extraordinaire Joan Silber. The winner of the PEN / Faulkner Award and National Book Critics Award for Fiction, Joan was being considered perhaps...
by Sheila Weller | Feb 19, 2021
Fifty years ago this week, Carly Simon’s self-titled debut album was released and with it she became a star. Here was a beautiful woman with a tawny, low-pitched, sometimes provocatively sharp and textured voice, an elite intellectual and fascinating background...
by Sheila Weller | Feb 10, 2021
Editor’s Note: Fifty years ago this week, Carole King’s album Tapestry was released, becoming the most-beloved and Grammy-winning album of 1971 and the top-selling album of the decade. Tapestry revealed a more inclusive form of female beauty, unified a...
by Sheila Weller | Jan 8, 2021
Editor’s Note: 10 years ago today, U.S. Representative Gabby Giffords was shot in the head. Her life changed forever, but the heinous act altered the lives of others around her. Just this week, Giffords endured another ordeal as her husband Mark Kelly, was in...
