Corey Kilgannon

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Corey Kilgannon

“Playing the blues isn’t about scales… it’s pattern music. You need to learn the right patterns”: Sue Foley is a master at turning scales into solos – here are her 6 essential licks that all blues fans should knowHello everyone, and welcome to my new column for Guitar World! Over the course of these lessons, I will be demonstrating many of my approaches to …

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Corey Kilgannon

Tarik Shah, who played with jazz greats in his youth, spent years behind bars after pleading guilty to plotting to teach martial arts to Qaeda fighters. Now he is out and working on a comeback. When Tarik Shah left prison in 2018, he had not played the double bass in 13 years and his fingers were racked with arthritis. "I never even considered quitting," said Mr. Shah, 62, who four decades before was a go-to bassist in the New York jazz scene.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Corey Kilgannon

The Lucha Wrestling Club in the Bronx provides a safe place for an aggressive sport. The Bronx has more public high school girls' teams than any other New York City borough. One by one, the teenage girls on Webster Avenue in the Bronx stepped past the tire shops and the men barbecuing on sidewalk grills. With stuffed animals and wrestling shoes dangling from their backpacks, they made their way up a stairway into the Bronx Combat Factory.

1 month ago | businessandamerica.com | Corey Kilgannon |Graham Dickie

Deep in the labyrinth of the American Museum of Natural History, past the giant suspended blue whale and the first floor’s Alaska brown bears, is an unobtrusive locked door. On it, there is a small sign. “Bug Colony.”Behind the door, accessible only to a handful of museum employees, thousands of flesh-eating dermestid beetles toil around the clock handling a task of specimen preparation that even the museum’s best trained specialists cannot.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Corey Kilgannon |Graham Dickie

The six-legged staffers of the American Museum of Natural History's Bug Colony do their grisly work under a lid. The result: neatly tidied bones. The six-legged staffers of the American Museum of Natural History's Bug Colony do their grisly work under a lid. The result: neatly tidied bones. Credit... Deep in the labyrinth of the American Museum of Natural History, past the giant suspended blue whale and the first floor's Alaska brown bears, is an unobtrusive locked door. On it, there is a small sign.