Who You Are Makes A Difference
As we end the year, and Thanksgiving approaches this is a good time for taking stock. Who has made a difference in your life? Have you been able to make a difference in someone else's life?
As we end the year, and Thanksgiving approaches this is a good time for taking stock. Who has made a difference in your life? Have you been able to make a difference in someone else's life?
David Wild | Posted 10.27.2009 | Entertainment
Here are some tunes meant to encourage the Senator from the fine state of Aetna to change his mind about a public option and actually act independently of his insurance donors.
Mike Ragogna | Posted 10.02.2009 | Entertainment
"There's no simple answer to who John Lennon was. Sure, he was a great leader and a peacenik; on the other hand, he was an incredibly violent, narcissistic guy. That was the other side of him, and people just don't want to hear that."
Julia Moulden | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living
It's no secret that some people earn more than others, but the gap is huge, and getting bigger every year. There have been some cool innovations designed to try to address this imbalance, but none have caught on in a big way. And now a couple of clever guys from Silicon Valley may just have reinvented the compensation wheel.
Mike Ragogna | Posted 09.30.2009 | Entertainment
It's refreshing that a young, promising group like Arctic Monkeys and its producers were smart enough to reinvent the brand before it got stale and formulaic, which this project absolutely is not.
Robbie Gennet | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics
To those who posted about having to "share" their earnings with those who had "no hand in it at all": you are truly living in a fictitious reality.
Robbie Gennet | Posted 09.26.2009 | Entertainment
If you are an Artist, Rand's books free you from the opinions of others and put ironclad gates around your sense of purpose, unlocking the freedom to create your art.
Paul Krassner | Posted 09.14.2009 | Entertainment
Four decades ago, along with 499,999 others on a countercultural pilgrimage, I headed to Woodstock. This was not merely a three-day outdoor concert. This was a Martian convention.
Sheila Weller | Posted 09.13.2009 | Entertainment
In that very different but very catalytic era, 40 years ago, what Jimi Henrix accomplished and what he represented to young America helped bring us to the country and the leadership we have today.
Reyne Haines | Posted 09.12.2009 | Style
Which celebrities' pre-owned gems scored big at auction? At number 7, Marilyn Monroe's white baby grand piano, sold by Christies. The lucky bidder? Mariah Carey, for $662,500.
Nathan Hegedus | Posted 09.12.2009 | Living
Unless you were backing up Janis Joplin in a secret jam session, or at least at, you know, actually at Woodstock, please, shut up.
John Farr | Posted 09.10.2009 | Entertainment
I've found that if you're equipped with a decent home theatre and quality speakers, it's hard to go wrong with a rock concert film.
Marshall Fine | Posted 09.10.2009 | Entertainment
It Might Get Loud portrays three generations of guitarists: Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin, The Edge of U2 and Jack White of the White Stripes, all talking about their love of the electric guitar.
Mike Ragogna | Posted 08.16.2009 | Entertainment
Built on the whole School of Rock phenomenon, the University of Central Oklahoma has a new music division that teaches all aspects of popular music such as performance, production and business affairs.
Dave Astor | Posted 08.01.2009 | Comedy
The general public doesn't mourn the deaths of less-famous people who might have continued to also do great things if they hadn't left us before their time.
Francesca Biller-Safran | Posted 07.30.2009 | Living
The passing of Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett has hit us near-baby boomers and full-on baby boomers with a rock and roll punch to the gut we weren't ready for.
Val Brown | Posted 07.25.2009 | Entertainment
All the older Reynolds kids, including Randy -- the coolest girl I knew -- went to Woodstock. I felt left out even though I wasn't quite sure what Woodstock was. I knew I was missing something monumental.
Mike Ragogna | Posted 07.04.2009 | Entertainment
This year's BookExpo in New York City had its usual small arena of publishers at gussied-up kiosks hawking the latest and greatest by writers known and unknown.
Timothy Cooper | Posted 07.04.2009 | Entertainment
If Bob Marley and U2 had a chance to record a song together, it would sound like rasta-rock, a new genre of music pioneered by Brooklyn-born artist Mojo Morgan.
Mike Ragogna | Posted 07.01.2009 | Entertainment
In the world of box sets, it would be impossible to find something better than Neil Young Archives Volume 1 (1963 - 1972).
Mike Ragogna | Posted 06.17.2009 | Entertainment
Though Tori Amos' career may have suffered from being overly prolific and recording some questionable cover songs, every new album is a bouquet of interesting, intelligent songs for her loyal fans.
B. Jeffrey Madoff | Posted 05.23.2009 | Media
The internet is like an amusement park: There are rides that get lots of attention then fade in popularity as something newer and faster shows up. The newest attraction on the fairground is Twitter.
Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.13.2009 | Entertainment
Blues harmonica player and singer Little Walter died over forty years ago, but his influences still can be heard in many blues-rock recordings that employ the instrument.
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.
Paul Krassner | Posted 03.16.2009 | Media
I thought that some of you might enjoy this Q&A with me in The Sun magazine, an oasis in the desert of gossip mongering And while I'm here in Blogsvi...
Anne Naylor | Posted 11.13.2009 | Living