I never met Bobby Murcer, so I can't reminisce about private moments we've shared. When he was in his prime as a player, I was busy teething and puking up my Gerber's; my memories of him in uniform are as a beloved icon-slash-platoon player and pinch hitter.

But when you...

Paul Krugman's recent, widely quoted op-ed in Monday's New York Times opens with this: "It's feeling a lot like 1992 right now. It's also feeling a lot like 1980." I generally agree with a lot of what Krugman has to say, but in this case I think he's dead...

It all began so innocently. While perusing the New York Times' Arts section a few weeks ago, I checked out a review of Journey's new album, Revelation. I don't really remember what the review said, but what caught my eye was a passing mention that former Journey vocalist Steve...

I should start off by mentioning that I'm a total gin snob. Sure, vodka has its place -- in the back of my liquor cabinet, gathering dust. Why drink something that's not supposed to taste like anything? If you just want to get drunk and don't want your palate challenged,...

A federal district court has decided against Universal Music Group, which had sued Troy Augusto last year for selling its promotional CDs on eBay. The court stated that promo CDs fall under protection of the first sale doctrine. In this case, that means no matter how many stamps and stickers...

I love Barack Obama. He inspires a nation. He's our generation's JFK. Our LBJ. Our HSBC. Because we can bank on him doing the right thing for this country. And he'll even give you interest, because he's interested in what the young people today are thinking. His words strike such...

My wife was a puddle of tears at Herb Alpert's show with his wife, singer Lani Hall, at Joe's Pub in New York last week.

If you know Herb Alpert's music, you know it's not the type of thing that starts people spontaneously weeping. "Tijuana Taxi," "The Lonely Bull," "Spanish...

Ten years after his death, 13 years since his last live performance and a decade and a half removed from his final studio recordings, the stream of "new" product from Frank Sinatra has never stopped. And as long as there's an audience out there and money to be made, there's...

(Hey, before reading this, check out this excellent post on the same subject from my HuffPo colleague, dear friend and former co-owner of NYCD, Sal Nunziato.)

In case you haven't heard, tomorrow has been designated Record Store Day by ... well, I'm not quite sure who, exactly. But a...

Dave Clark has always had a lot of chutzpah. It takes cojones, after all, to name a band after yourself when you're just the drummer. To be fair, though, when you hear most of the Dave Clark Five's mid-'60s boatload of hits, the first thing you remember is the drumming....

Anybody remember R.E.M.? In the late '90s, with a decade and a half of steadily increasing record sales and unflagging critical fawning, they were one of the biggest bands in the world, ready to assume their place on the musical Mount Olympus alongside all the other all-time greats.

But...

I didn't think this year could get any more exciting politically, but Eliot Spitzer just took it up a notch. For the next several days, at least, Hillary and Barack will be the second most riveting story in the news.

It's like I'm a kid playing a video game, and...

As a political junkie, I'm loving this campaign. It's just too bad Theodore White isn't around to write "The Making Of The President 2008."

As a loyal Democrat, however, I'm confused. Where the hell do we go from here?

Obama supporters who are still demanding that Hillary drop out despite...

1952: ADLAI STEVENSON (running against Dwight D. Eisenhower)
WHAT HE SHOULD HAVE SAID - You want a president who can't even pronounce the word "nuclear"?
WHAT HE ACTUALLY SAID - Let's talk sense to the American people! Let's tell them the truth, that there are no gains without...

As I watch the Clinton campaign go deeper into its downward spiral and possibly its death throes, it kills me to know that the Democrats have done what the Republicans were never able to do -- take down Hillary Clinton. I mean, I'm used to Hillary Hate coming from the...

I'm a baseball fan who doesn't care about football. The Super Bowl was, I believe, the second game I've watched this season. But I watched the Giants upset the Patriots with all the fervor and enthusiasm of a lifelong pigskin enthusiast.

Why did I care at all, let alone...

When I started HuffPosting last year, I swore to myself that I'd never write about politics. There are more than enough bloggers who do so capably -- why bother to inject myself into the mix? Besides, I had other fish to fry. Arianna & Co. signed me on to write...

Radiohead's In Rainbows, becomes their first album to top Billboard's chart, with 122,000 copies sold in its first week. Not a huge news story - until you remember that In Rainbows was available for months as a pay-what-you-like (or a heck-don't-pay-anything-that's-cool-too) download from their website. 122,000 copies is relatively small...

2007 was the year I finally got old. Either that or the vast majority of the music that came out this year was crap. Or maybe it's a combination of the two. I dutifully checked out the Arcade Fire and Lily Allen and LCD Soundsystem and Bright Eyes albums and...

The Mitchell Report is finally out, and as expected, Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens and all the other beefy superstars and juiced-up journeymen who've gotten the "j'accuse" treatment were finally vindicated.

Oh, I don't mean that it was proven that they didn't take whatever they were accused of taking. It's just...