Here’s a cool little article about how “Philip Glass has replaced the void left by the death of beat poet — and acid-dropping Jew turned Tibetan Buddhist — Allen Ginsberg by forming a collaboration with Leonard Cohen.”
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And here’s a review from Variety of the new play Passing Strange, in which “the impressionable innocent at the show’s center is “a Zen Buddhist stranded in 1970s black middle-class Los Angeles, with a mother intent on dragging him to church, he resists her notion of spirituality but has his own religious experience when it dawns on him that gospel music is the root of rock ‘n’ roll. “