THE VIOLIN CONSPIRACY By Brendan Slocumb. ... If a set piece like that seems blunt, an author’s note mentions that many of the novel’s events “come from my own life experiences.” ...

Choosing an instrument. People were still talking as the first few notes of music filled the downstairs of Digital Motif on Gay Street. Shaub was tuning the violin he held in his hands.

The filmmaker managed to track the violin down to the Bronx Global Learning Institute for Girls, a charter school in the nation’s poorest congressional district, and to 13-year-old Brianna Perez ...

It's a familiar tune: Location. Location. Location. And for SOLA Violins, that familiar refrain and more is why Anya Burgess moved her business from Arnaudville to the Gordon Hotel in the heart of ...