The Life and Times of Sooz

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A friend alerted me that Adam Lambert on American Idol sang Universal Hall Pass's arrangement of Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire" a couple weeks ago. A cover of a cover? Aha! Apparently Ryan Seacrest thought it was a version of the song by Chris Cornell. Oops. I finally checked out Adam's version on YouTube ...

The final installment of my TAZA chocolate tour of their Somerville factory is here! In this video, co-founder Alex Whitmore describes how cocoa nibs are ground. During the grinding process, the cocoa transforms from a solid to liquid because the nibs are oily with 50-55% cocoa butter.

Part 1: How The Roaster Works.

Part 2: ...

Here's my second of two videos of TAZA chocolate's tour of their chocolate factory in Somerville. In this video, TAZA co-founder Alex Whitmore describes how the cocoa nib winnowing machine works. This is the process of removing the shell off of the cocoa bean. They donate the shells to Groundworks Somerville, a ...

Adam Ritchie from The Lights Out joined The Luxury on guitar for "Ocean's Limerick" at the Middle East on February 20th. And here's the video I shot. The Luxury is a great (really great) rock band from Boston. They won the "open for Coldplay" contest last Fall at The Boston Garden and have a ...

I'm not a fan of pay-to-play music festivals like Emergenza, but it meant the opportunity to see Sammy Miami's band Houndstone perform at the Paradise Rock Club if they won their first round at Church on Monday night. They had the biggest crowd and came in first place. Now everyone within 100 miles of Boston ...

The print version of Rob Weisman's story about Free Agent Jungle is missing the first bunch of paragraphs. When I saw the story online last night it seemed a little disconnected but now makes a lot more sense after they've added those missing paragraphs back. The article includes Nicholas Peterson who is collaborating with me ...

I haven't been taking lots of photos lately but I'm going to dig back into that. Thanks to some help from Kristarella in the Thesis WordPress theme forum, I was able to make some tweaks to the photo blog category of sooz.com so the photos appear in an area that can accommodate larger photos.

I ...