Two weeks ago, I returned to Haiti for the second time since the devastating Jan. 12 earthquake. The first time, it was an emotional journey to find my mother, which I did. And on Feb. 1, I went back for 10 days to provide what humanitarian aid I could with friends Charles Douglas and Jeremiah [...]

It was just two weeks after New Year’s Eve, the big Platinum Key affair, and I was working hard to plan the next series of events at LUCID: Jazz Awards, Miles Davis tributes, happy hour specials. The goal: Make this year better than the last. But amid the planning and sending of final e-mails, fliers, and event lists, 30 seconds rocked an island nation. And [...]

After 36 hours of desperate and unanswered calls to Port au Prince, 31-year-old David Pierre-Louis left the safety of Seattle for quake ravaged Haiti in hopes of finding his family. “I’m just walking, trying to find my mom,” he said. He walked through the skeletal remains of the neighborhoods he once knew, to the block [...]