Saying that U2's rock had lost touch with its African roots, the Commission called for urgent measures to halt U2's slide towards impending crisis.
Jim Luce | Posted 11.17.2009 | New York
Several weeks ago Brian Williams profiled the children of the Afghan Child Education and Care Organization (AFCECO) and its founder Andeisha Farid in ...
Tim Mohr | Posted 11.09.2009 | Entertainment
The awareness of mortality in 1980s nuke-pop was amplified by the inescapably bleak Cold War reality. With the fall of the Wall, much of the threat evaporated. The music, however, lives on.
Harvey Wasserman | Posted 11.06.2009 | Entertainment
The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation's Joel Peresman has confirmed that last week's monster benefit concerts in Madison Square Garden will yield at least $4 million.
Posted 11.02.2009 | Technology
See video below Bill Gates turned 54-years-old October 28, and celebrated his birthday at the U2 concert in Vancouver B.C., TechFlash reports. A lot...
Richard Walden | Posted 11.03.2009 | Impact
I appreciate the Gates family's, Oprah's, and Madonna's philanthropic work, but they're missing a huge world full of local talent, new ideas and smaller-scale projects crying out for funding.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 10.29.2009 | Entertainment
If we choose to believe that Michael Jackson was happy and healthy at the time of his death we are wrong. We would also be missing the point -- that we can learn from Michael's tragic death.
Virginia M. Moncrieff | Posted 10.27.2009 | Entertainment
Mo longer are we content to hear the tin pot half-baked undergraduate political ramblings of some bloke who just happens to have the mic. What in the hell would he know?
Mike Ragogna | Posted 10.27.2009 | Entertainment
In 2008, Jack Johnson toured the world with his Sleep Through The Static concerts, the best of these shows assembled for his new CD/DVD En Concert.
nytimes.com | Patrick Healy | Posted 10.23.2009 | New York
The new multimillion-dollar Broadway "Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark" is now expected to start previews and open this spring later than scheduled, beca...
Posted 10.21.2009 | Impact
John D. Rockefeller Jr. said to "think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege." Several major international corporations are trying to follow that...
Tom Matlack | Posted 10.20.2009 | World
was brought up to believe in peace not war. But the world is a different place. I am not one who believes we can decide to disengage from the world at this late hour.
Posted 10.19.2009 | Impact
A few years ago, I accepted a Golden Globe award by barking out an expletive. One imagines President Obama did the same when he heard about his Nobel...
The Atlantic | James Warren | Posted 10.18.2009 | Chicago
Indeed, the whole business of admissions is touchy and what can pass for scandal in modern media has surrounded the University of Illinois in recent m...
Leon T. Hadar | Posted 10.14.2009 | World
"I have to admit that I'm beginning to miss George W. Bush," is the way former Republican Senator "Chuck" Hagel responded when being asked by CNN's Wolf Blitzer to assess the foreign policy record of the administration of Republican President John McCain.
Posted 10.08.2009 | Denver
Get excited, Denver: Star Wars In Concert is coming to town, playing at the Pepsi Center on October 18th. The event will feature a live symphony orch...
Catie Lazarus | Posted 10.12.2009 | Entertainment
The Cleveland Show is simultaneously inventive and familiar in how it chronicles the adventures of a loving and garden-variety dysfunctional American family.
Tom Matlack | Posted 09.30.2009 | Entertainment
The books of the 21st century will no longer be sold by an agent to a publishing house who tries to sell them to bookstores. The most successful books of the future will look more like a U2 concert.
James Boyce | Posted 09.29.2009 | New York
Not only is Irish musician Gavin Friday performing at Carnegie Hall on Sunday night, he's bringing a few friends. Like Bono. The Edge. Larry Mullen, Jr. And Adam Clayton.
Halle Tecco | Posted 09.29.2009 | Living
We're seeing "pinkwashing," when corporations try to boost sales by turning their products pink in the fight against breast cancer. But will your pretty pink purchase really have an impact?
Posted 11.23.2009 | Impact
Chris Martin is sending a message to Bono: We can make an impact too! This week Martin's band Coldplay donated one million pounds to British organiza...
Shawn Amos | Posted 11.22.2009 | Entertainment
Record bins are rife with charity singles and concert history is filled with benefit shows for every imaginable cause. Musicians like to give back. Here, see the most generous musicians ever.
Mike Ragogna | Posted 11.17.2009 | Entertainment
Peter, Paul & Mary helped mold the opinions of millions, persistently trying to open the minds of everyone who listened to their recordings or saw them perform live.
Ari Bendersky | Posted 11.13.2009 | Chicago
As with everything U2 does, this show was big. Big stage. Big lights. Big sound. Big messages. But this show was played, for lack of a better term, in the round.
William Easterly | Posted 09.13.2009 | Entertainment
Can we note the irony of ads using Hollywood women as sex objects and seeing African women as the passive recipients of aid chivalry, when one of the objectives of this aid is gender equality?
William Easterly | Posted 11.23.2009 | Comedy