Posts by Alby

After inconveniencing tens of thousands of New Yorkers so he could watch game 3 of the NBA finals, Donald Trump did what we all wish he'd do more: He fell…

Irving Berlin wrote well over 1,000 songs during his 60-year career. Many are now standards that we hear frequently, a list headed by the all-time No. 1 holiday tune, "White…

Guest post by Nathan Arizona People are looking for Lewis and Clark again. Sure, the guys who explored the rivers, forests and mountains of President Jefferson’s newly purchased western territory…

Here's how hard up Trump is for acts willing to play his big birthday party for America: He's enlisted Lee Greenwood, of "God Bless the USA" fame, to warble that…

As El Somnambulo keeps pointing out, Trump has entered the lame duck portion of his presidency. With more court decisions going against him and more Republican lawmakers going rogue, he…

Well, that was awkward. The Black Crowes were playing a show in Tampa and were just about to launch into their signature song, "She Talks to Angels," when the video…

You probably heard about the Enhanced Games, an Olympics-style athletic competition that allowed participants to use whatever performance-enhancing drugs they cared to. Organizers promised that doped-up athletes would shatter world…

Guest post by Nathan Arizona After the pop hits Carole King wrote at the Brill Building that made stars of other people, and before the singer-songwriter fare on “Tapestry” that…

H/t Mike Dinsmore, whose comment yesterday alerted us to the death two weeks ago of Dennis Locorriere, co-frontman of Dr. Hook. No, not the guy with the eyepatch. That was…

Jazz giant Sonny Rollins died Monday at age 95, nearly 70 years after the release of an LP that gave him a lasting sobriquet, "Saxophone Colossus." He was 26 but…

Trump's cheesy idea of class comes out in myriad ways – gold-colored plastic trim in the Oval Office, a triumph-free triumphal arch – but nothing drives it home like his…

They say everything's bigger in Texas, and that includes the assholes. Given the choice between the old-school conservative Cornyn and the amoral MAGAt Paxton, of course Texas Republicans overwhelmingly chose…

Every time I hear Trump's latest promise of a peace deal with Iran I remember the old halls on the Atlantic City boardwalk where hard-sell pitchmen like Ed McMahon sold…