Owen Pryce

Owen writes about music, food and travel, and has opinions about all three.

Blue Sydney city bus on a tree-lined street with a large black mustache decal across its front

Movember: How a Melbourne Pub Joke Turned Into Mustache Month

Owen Pryce · November 9, 2026

Joni Mitchell in blue velvet sings with a line of performers at her 2023 Library of Congress Gershwin Prize concert, her painted self-portraits hanging above the stage. Photo: Shawn Miller/Library of Congress, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Joni Mitchell at 83: Open Tunings, Blue and a Comeback Nobody Expected

Owen Pryce · November 7, 2026

Art Garfunkel in a dark sweater singing into a handheld microphone on a dark stage

Art Garfunkel at 85: The Voice That Keeps Coming Back for One More Song

Owen Pryce · November 5, 2026

A long table set for a Friendsgiving dinner with white plates, mason jars, candles and a striped runner dotted with red berries

How Friendsgiving Went From a Usenet Post to America's Second Thanksgiving

Owen Pryce · November 2, 2026

A Moog Etherwave theremin in a wooden case on a stand, with a straight pitch antenna on the right and a looped volume antenna on the left

How the Theremin Became the Spooky Sound of Movies and Halloween

Owen Pryce · October 29, 2026

Taylor Swift singing on a small stage platform during the 1989 World Tour, with her close-up projected on a giant screen beside a tree

Twelve Years of 1989: How Taylor Swift's Pop Album Rewrote Her Career

Owen Pryce · October 27, 2026

A traditional Irish jack-o'-lantern carved from a turnip, with two hollow eyes and a wide open mouth full of uneven teeth, displayed in a museum case

Before Pumpkins, Jack-o'-Lanterns Were Carved From Turnips

Owen Pryce · October 25, 2026

Bobby 'Boris' Pickett smiling behind a table at a fan event in 2005, holding a magazine

Monster Mash at 64: How a Novelty Record Became Halloween's Anthem

Owen Pryce · October 21, 2026