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5 New Theories About The Beatles On The 50th Anniversary of Their U.S. Arrival
February marks the 50th anniversary of the Beatles’ first visit to these shores and appearance on national TV. Why were they so instantly popular? How original were they, really? How could a bland port...
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After ObamaCare, How About ComputerCare? Digital Devices Get Sick, Too
Despite the last-day glitch on the ObamaCare registration site, reportedly resolved quickly, ObamaCare appears to be a success in meeting its enrollment goals. Which prompts the question: What other...
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Funnyball: Baseball Statistics We’d Love to See
Once upon a time I played left field on a Little League team in suburban Milwaukee. Gregg Steinhafel, the future ex-CEO of Target, was our star pitcher, and his father, Jim, was the coach–until he was...
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Conceptual, Sensual, Degenerate: Your Summer Art Choices
Here are some recent and current art offerings in New York. If you aren’t or weren’t able to see them in person, consider acquiring the accompanying catalogues. Jean-Michel Basquiat’s paintings and...
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From Beethoven To The Beatles To Beyoncé: The Soundtrack Of Your Life, In Words
If, as Martin Mull supposedly said, “writing about music is like dancing about architecture,” then reading music writing must be at an even greater remove from the subject. Except not so much these...
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“Blurred Lines” Indeed: Music Copyright Issues Just Got Crazier
“Hey, that song sounds familiar!” I remember thinking when listening to “Blurred Lines,” the big hit by Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams. Scouring my musical memory banks, I realized what it reminded...
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Rhiannon Giddens: Musical Melting Pot Wows America
You could call her the greatest folk diva of our era. But diva implies that she is mainly a singer, and folk hardly describes what she does. Rhiannon Giddens, currently on tour across the U.S. and then...
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The Confederate Flag Is Dead–Time For A Better Emblem Of Southern Heritage?
The kid on the school bus seat next to me was scratchily drawing on his binder with one of those newfangled Bic pens made of clear plastic. Like a lot of us, he was probably the son of a World War II...
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A Century Of The Singer Sublime: How Frank Sinatra Still Rules Our Consciousness
He was short, scrawny and balding with a face like an old boot, a street-educated high school dropout, but Frank Sinatra wound up owning the world. How? That the immigrants’ son from Hoboken rose to...
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Trump Is Only The Latest Aspirant Spit Up By The Entertainment-Political Complex
In Jan. 2015, Donald Trump, host of “The Celebrity Apprentice,” poses for photographers at the NBC 2015 Winter TCA Press Tour in Pasadena, Calif. (Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File) Is Trump an...
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