(Photo via Medeski, Martin & Wood's MySpace page.)Despite being a cool, downtown NYC jazz act with roots in the early Nineties avant-garde scene of John Lurie and John Zorn, no one loves Medeski, Martin & Wood like that patchouli-loving, Birkenstocks-on-the-weekend hippie in the next cubicle over from you at work. MM&W's supersonic organ funk jams with DJ Logic in the Nineties forever cemented their relationship with neohippies, who first heard them when Phish would use the group's
John LinnChef Ron in the kitchen at Whole Foods' Lifestyle Center.He was running a few minutes late, but once Chef Ron Duprat arrived at Whole Foods' Lifestyle Center on Saturday night, he got right to business. Scuttling through the door in his bright red Birkenstocks, Duprat introduced himself and apologized for being late. "I'm on Haiti time," he said with a grin. Then he hit the kitchen immediately, prepping whole filets of Chilean sea bass for a dish of jerk sea bass with vanilla rum but
