Posts by Alby

The WXPN 885 cover songs countdown ended last evening, and there were no surprises among the top finishers: Jimi Hendrix covering "All Along the Watchtower" was No. 1, Johnny Cash…

Raul Malo, founder and lead singer of the Mavericks, died of cancer Monday at 60, silencing one of the best voices of his generation. Malo, the son of Cuban immigrants,…

Donald Trump's War on Wind – a particularly stupid fixation given AI's soaring demand for electricity – suffered a setback yesterday. A federal judge ruled his abrupt cancellation of all…

Trump played MC for the Kennedy Center Honors last night, and managed to get through the evening while keeping the cringe to a minimum. But it's Trump, so he couldn't…

Steve Cropper, who died Dec. 3 at 84, did as much as anyone to make Stax a soul powerhouse in the '60s – playing guitar in the house band, Booker…

Guest post by Nathan Arizona Two Englishmen sail west across the Atlantic and finally spy “the capes of Delaware.” They have a big job ahead. As this Mark Knopfler song…

Things are so bad in this country that even the wildlife is getting hammered. A liquor store in Virginia was ransacked by a raccoon that was found passed out drunk…

Alina Habba, the pride of Widener Law School, has been disqualified as U.S. Attorney for New Jersey after an appeals court has ruled that the Trump administration's ploy for appointing…

Trump's rapid unraveling is getting hard to ignore, but I'm not seeing many stories about the man-child rage-tweeting into the wee hours to spout ever-more-incredulous fabblegab. My personal favorite: in…

The march of development can seem unstoppable, especially in eastern Sussex County. Most protests about it take the form of debates about traffic impact and emergency response times, but sometimes…

Guest post by Nathan Arizona In his new PBS series about the American Revolution, Ken Burns doesn’t pull any punches when he describes many of the people who supported or…

Jesse Welles might seem like an overnight sensation, but like most overnight sensations it took him more than a decade to get to the big night. Now he's there, capturing…