Kudos & Flowers

I started watching The Followin g for one reason:  Kevin Bacon.  He is one of our best actors and he played Fenwick in Diner, that alone is ...

In memory of my favorite Mouseketeer and Beach Party Gal. My Mouseketeer Hat

Richard Brody pays tribute to Roget Ebert in this New Yorker piece .  It's worth reading for Roger's thoughts on what it takes to ma...

Every obituary I've read about Phil Ramone talks about the artists he worked with which is long and illustrious.  Of course there is B...

Chances are you are British if you saw Joy Division live. They had a tour of the US planned, but they never made it here, another short liv...

Carl Schurz Park this morning.

If you loved Gilmore Girls (and how could you not?), you will like Bunheads .  It's a bit Gilmore-lite, but the fast banter and great p...

Billboard is now incorporating YouTube plays in it's calculation for the Hot 100 charts .  As the magazine editor Bill Werde says in a N...

In 2010 Greg Prato released MTV Ruled The World, The Early Years of Music Video .  I just read it.  I worked at MTV as an intern in it's...

Wow!  I read this a few hours after posting my revisited Rotten post.  Braindeadly should have read Rotten. I was shocked that the Sex Pist...

There are a few quotes from John Lydon that I think give the reader a good sense of what was going on with the Sex Pistols in the early stag...

You can write about it in a song and you can talk about it on YouTube.  Brian Mazzaferri from the band I Fight Dragons recalls his unen...

35 years ago on January 14, the Sex Pistols played their final gig as the band we remember,  that lineup with Sid Vicious.  It's ironic ...

Three things that interest me:  Baseball, Bob Costas and Barry Levinson.   Starting this Monday the 14th, they will be part of a six segment...

For years, the major record labels were able to manipulate sales numbers and the sales charts.  Billboard, Cash Box, Record World all charte...

To die your whole life [he is quoting Kafka] . Despite the morbidity, I can’t think of a better definition of the writing life. There’s some...

If you're looking for something enchanting to do over the Christmas break, pull into the NY Botanical Gardens for their annual Holiday ...

If you're in San Antonio in the next few days, see Annie at The Playhouse San Antonio.  I will disclose that I'm close to the sho...

The best summer was 1963. His dad took just him on a road trip in England.  They stopped in Liverpool, you might have a hint of what happene...