Mike Stephens

I go on sometimes about how music is the saving grace of mankind. It's all around us, I know -- on the radio, in elevators, the...

I can't remember when I wrote this poem, only where I was when I wrote it, so it had to have been between 1989 and 1993, typed out on my...

As songwriters we collaborate with everything in the known universe. (I like that phrase “the known universe.” It leads me on so many...

I've been thinking about him lately, remembering his writing, his approach to this life. Maybe my favorite Caesar, the last of the...

...specifically to Three Rivers, a small town south of Kalamazoo where every August so many of my friends and I gather to make music and...

Obsession and fate collide in one of the most controversial and provocative films ever made. English widow Anne Osborne (Sarah Miles,...

The Magdalene Sisters is a pungent, powerful film that points an accusing finger not at religious beliefs but at flawed human...

A few years ago a young man in Colorado called me on the phone to ask for my daughter's hand in marriage. And what was I supposed to say?...