Jill Scott performs during the Black Radio Experience at Meritage Resort & Spa in Napa on Aug. 30, 2024. Martin Lacey/STAFF. NAPA — The Blue Note Jazz Festival’s Black Radio Experience kicked off on Friday at The Meritage Resort & Spa in Napa on Friday. The three-day event, an…

Dolly Parton performs at the UK Country Music Festival in an undated photo. Andrew Putler/Redferns. In two of the last three years I’ve attempted, with minimal success, to do an Easter column. (I apparently ignored it completely in 2020. There was other stuff going on in April of 2020…

Chief Keef, Courtesy. As RIFF Rewind’s ongoing Black History Month comes up on the end of its second month these column topics are getting tougher and tougher. My first thought was to celebrate the second attempt at baseball’s Opening Day by highlighting how recent broken color barriers have been…

Chance the Rapper. Matt De Mello/STAFF. The other day I wrote an column on where we, not just as a country, but as a world, go from here. That piece was unique for RIFF. Ours is not a political publication. However, some events transcend politics. Many of us are nervous, some…