The stench of losing hangs heavy on the head that wears the combover. Donald Trump finally found a sports crowd that wouldn't boo him, but his attendance at Alabama's football…
Joe DiStefano, Philadelphia Inquirer columnist and News-Journal alumnus, has written a piece so damning of Joe Biden's soft corruption that it can't help but damn our entire state government philosophy…
I probably feature John Prine more often that some people would like, but this is the rare Prine tune that he didn't write himself, though he did sign its composer,…
The glam rock years were strange ones, kids. Bands, particularly in England, put on makeup, glitter and androgynous outfits in emulation of David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust. Most of them took…
A lot of people think this is the Rolling Stones, but it's actually Jagger backed by a band of studio musicians for his star turn in the film "Performance." That's…
Python Lee Jackson was an Australian band, founded in 1965, that tried its luck in England in 1969. Despite catching the attention of producer John Peel, they didn't make it…
The only song by this quintessential San Francisco psychedelic outfit to make the singles charts, this Santana-sounding 1970 cut talks about something in short supply these days in fire-ravaged California.…
This Holland-Dozier-Holland tune was a No. 1 hit for the Supremes in 1966, just a year before Long Island band Vanilla Fudge slowed it down and turned the song's minor-key…
A song I play every year as the elegy for the baseball season. Paul Simon's natural melancholy, some jazzy chords and the harmonica wizardry of Toots Thielemans combine to roll…
Another 1969 track El Som couldn't squeeze into October was the last top 40 hit by the Box Tops, featuring lead singer Alex Chilton, a 16-year-old high school student when…
All these investigations have Trump on the run -- literally. In another of an endless series of petulant wee-hours tweets, Trump announced he is leaving New York to make Florida…
A reporter for the local Washington, D.C., affiliate was interviewing Nationals fans at a bar in the wake of their World Series win last night when she asked one guy…