Reasons To Be Cheerful (Part 2)
British New Waver Ian Dury's keen wit, social criticism and generosity of spirit inspires the following reasons for cheer during this tough holiday season.
British New Waver Ian Dury's keen wit, social criticism and generosity of spirit inspires the following reasons for cheer during this tough holiday season.
Leo W. Gerard | Posted 12.03.2009 | Business
A second stimulus is completely reasonable at a time when there are six unemployed Americans for every job opening and when it takes six months on average for an unemployed worker to find a job.
Michael Bialas | Posted 11.30.2009 | Denver
Denver plays a small part in Everybody's Fine, the tearjerking family drama disguised in recent trailers as a feel-good holiday film starring Robert De Niro.
Posted 11.25.2009 | Comedy
How will we look back at The Beatles in 1000 years? How will John Lennon, Paul Mackenzie, George Hutchinson, and Scottie Pippen stand the test of time...
Regina Weinreich | Posted 10.31.2009 | Entertainment
What fascinates is remembering the B-52s as in George DuBose's 1978 photograph, or Ike and Tina in 1962, as in Ernest C. Withers' photo, or Amy Arbus' 1983 Madonna before Kabbalah.
Spinner | Spinner Staff | Posted 10.13.2009 | Entertainment
They say winners never quit, but in the music biz there's something to be said for going out at the top of your game. Whether they left for greener p...
Darin Murphy | Posted 11.29.2009 | Entertainment
One would remain an enigma whose legend mystified millions, while the other became a high profile murderer who horrified millions more.
AP | Posted 11.23.2009 | Entertainment
LOS ANGELES — Nearly 40 years after breaking up, The Beatles are still breaking records for album sales. EMI Group PLC says consumers in North ...
William Bradley | Posted 11.21.2009 | Entertainment
Last night's repeat win at the Emmy Awards further enshrined Mad Men as television's best series on a night when it aired a consequential new episode.
Stephen Gyllenhaal | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics
For real change to hit us, it would have had to come like the Beatles first songs hit us. It would have had to have been brash and maybe a bit humorous, but with a working class toughness.
Gary Marcus | Posted 11.14.2009 | Entertainment
I suspect monkeys could be trained to play Guitar Hero and Rock Band, and yet the two games together have grossed over three billion dollars
William Bradley | Posted 11.14.2009 | Entertainment
Five major plot developments in this episode -- named for the culmination of Betty Draper's pregnancy -- drive the action forward as we enter the middle of the season.
Michael Sigman | Posted 11.08.2009 | Entertainment
My dad's biggest hit -- "It's All In The Game" -- began as classical violin solo composed by Charles Dawes, making it the only No. 1 song to have been co-written by a vice president of the United States.
Carol Hoenig | Posted 08.28.2009 | Living
Maybe the angry father has his own big issues that bother him, but he would do better teaching his children about justice and loving one's neighbor instead of making curse words the enemy.
William Bradley | Posted 08.21.2009 | Entertainment
Though Goldfinger looks almost sedate compared to today's jittery, mashed-up action pictures, editor Peter Hunt's work 45 years ago, emphasizing fast hard cuts, was an innovation.
Michael Conniff | Posted 08.15.2009 | Entertainment
Vegas, man-made and juiced-up, is where our story as a country has come to an end.
Will Bunch | Posted 07.26.2009 | Entertainment
The Jackson 5 and their strings of hits like "The Love You Save" was the first pop music that truly belonged to us -- the rear-guard Baby Boomers.
Alexia Tsotsis | Posted 07.11.2009 | Media
Music-related social games are attracting major artists -- and, in the process, luring new users outside the "core-gaming" community.
Martin Lewis | Posted 05.09.2009 | Entertainment
The New York Times is finally seeking a Beatles expert who is actually knowledgeable about the band and/or someone who can do basic math.
Mike Ragogna | Posted 04.02.2009 | Entertainment
If you were expecting another All That You Can't Leave Behind or How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb - Part II, forget it. U2 is back to experimenting.
Marshall Fine | Posted 03.30.2009 | Entertainment
It's bad enough that so-called classic-rock stations clog the airwaves with the worst of the 70s and 80s, but to have the videogame industry spoon-feeding it to a generation that doesn't know better is too much.
Keith Thomson | Posted 03.08.2009 | Green
According to a 2002 Time/CNN poll, 47% of Americans have smoked marijuana. Here's a list of famous users and advocates of the plant.
Jason Flom | Posted 02.14.2009 | Politics
Obama ran on a campaign promise of change. He can begin by using the pardon power generously to correct as many individual cases of injustice as possible.
Tony Sachs | Posted 09.14.2008 | Entertainment
Buddy Greco's been counted out more times than a punch-drunk boxer, and he bounces back every time. And even in 2008, he's still one of the best jazz pianists around, and a hell of a singer, too.
AP | MATT SEDENSKY | Posted 03.29.2008 | Entertainment
MIAMI — Lawyers for the Beatles sued Friday to prevent the distribution of unreleased recordings purportedly made during Ringo Starr's first per...
Michael Sigman | Posted 12.03.2009 | Entertainment