Hoagy Carmichael News

A Watertown Democrats gather for their caucus Saturday at the Watertown Free Public Library beginning at 2 p.m. All registered Democrats can attend and attendees will elect 22 delegates and four alternates to the 2012 Massachusetts Democratic Party's nominating convention.

Law was the first career goal of Hoagy Carmichael , composer of some of the most memorable ballads to come out of the 1930s and 1940s and a longtime Rancho Mirage resident.

While large ensembles reached their heyday in the '40s, there are many still recording today, even if their ability to tour widely is limited.

Dave Frishberg and Bob Dorough occupy a unique place in US culture: they're the musical bards of the jazz-oriented lexophiles, that aging hip cohort who still find witty conversation the most provocative kind of foreplay.