America Needs A True Revolution Of Values
Who made Carrie Prejean and Mike Huckabee the experts on values? What can Sen. Jim DeMint, Bill O'Reilly or Rep. Michele Bachmann teach me on the subject?
Who made Carrie Prejean and Mike Huckabee the experts on values? What can Sen. Jim DeMint, Bill O'Reilly or Rep. Michele Bachmann teach me on the subject?
Trish Kinney | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics
Some people just seem called to help us understand ourselves, no matter what the cost, whether they be musicians or that rare politician or leader who makes us believe in something -- in anything.
Mike Ragogna | Posted 09.20.2009 | Entertainment
While most of his contemporaries have the fantasy of signing the bottom line of a label contract, Jonah Smith has rejected a record company's offer instead.
Mike Ragogna | Posted 09.16.2009 | Entertainment
Though his latest album The Way I See It was released last year, Saadiq still is touring pretty much non-stop. He took a quick break from his schedule for this interview.
Mike Ragogna | Posted 08.05.2009 | Entertainment
The singer's voice has matured significantly -- along with his haircut and wardrobe; this time out, Maxwell has recast himself as a grown-up with all its musical and lyrical upgrades.
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.
Mike Hegedus | Posted 07.27.2009 | Media
It's rare that television moves me to take action but it did while I was watching the ABC and NBC "specials" on the death of Michael Jackson.
Shawn Amos | Posted 07.13.2009 | Entertainment
Musicians burn through more cash than the Federal Reserve; Mick Fleetwood estimates he spent $8 million on cocaine alone.
Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.01.2009 | Entertainment
We assumed there would be no more sexual healing after Marvin Gaye's death in 1984. The April Fool's Day murder left us speechless, as if our dreams ...
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.
Mike Ragogna | Posted 02.27.2009 | Entertainment
With a basic reverence for the original record, Morrison's live arrangements allow for musicians to add new layers of strata though jams, while acknowledging forty years has passed since the original was slated.
Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin | Posted 06.24.2009 | Entertainment
A comprehensive set of holiday music recommendations from Dog Ears Music, including Otis Redding, Spike Jones, The Klezmonauts, Keith Richards, Run-DMC, Dolly Parton, The Beach Boys, and many more.
Anne Hill | Posted 01.15.2009 | Business
Staying lucid in this global economic nightmare for any length of time is beyond my skill level.
Tony Sachs | Posted 12.26.2008 | Entertainment
Would the Sixties be the sixties without the Beatles? Would teen culture as we know it exist without Elvis? And can any record, no matter how brilliant, have a similar impact today? Somehow, I don't think so.
Diane Tucker | Posted 10.29.2008 | Home
"Last week 300 volunteers knocked on 10,000 doors! Even volunteers from Maryland drove down to help us. It was awesome."
Jeff Chang | Posted 10.16.2008 | Politics
Many commentators have said that Obama's coalition has many similarities to the McGovern campaign. But there is a key difference. Demographics have shifted strongly away from Nixonland.
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.
Kerry Trueman | Posted 06.25.2008 | Green
We're so busy worrying about $4 gas that we've lost sight of a much more fundamental number: the amount of CO2 that's in our atmosphere. This wonderful, wordless video is a universal call to arms.
David A. Love | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics