Arts and Entertainment

Writers lazily compare Squeeze's Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook to John Lennon and Paul McCartney, but they worked more like a musical theater team -- Difford wrote the lyrics, Tilbrook…

Given that Trinidadian rapper/twerker Nicki Minaj is now an expert on the Covid vaccine's effect on the male reproductive organs, I thought readers might appreciate a look at her credentials.…

Comedian Norm MacDonald, that self-identified Old Chunk of Coal, was sick with cancer for almost a decade before he died the other day, and told almost nobody. He started referring…

What is it with MAGAnuts and their hatred of masks? Have you seen videos of these disturbed people, frothing at the mouth over the fact that their kids have to…

This one gets my vote for the most effective I-miss-my-woman song ever written. Bill Withers' breakthrough hit was inspired by one of the great parting scenes in cinema -- no,…

Joe Biden is hitting America's homicidal Republicans with his best shot -- a vaccine mandate that's popular with over 60% of the public, even in deep-red states. Somebody should tell…

The obituary identifies Big Daddy Graham, who died yesterday at 68, as a longtime WIP radio-show host, and that was definitely the most successful of his various gigs. But anyone…

Pete 'n' Val have a secret, but it's not hard to guess what it is: Gerald Brady will not be expelled from the General Assembly. This was the first Beatles…

This song just missed topping the charts twice -- the first time as South African trumpeter Hugh Masekela's instrumental version, which reached No. 1 in 1968, and again in 1970,…

Songwriter and country singer Tom T. Hall died last month, and the world lost a wise old soul when he did. Hall wrote more than 20 No. 1 hits on…

There's so much to enjoy (and possibly to be offended by) this month.  In other words, my kind of list: CATBITE!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnTMhr_Mg8c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wixtkRwSQR4 "I'm good, I'm veryvery good." BONUS: Videos…

Now that the Dixie Chicks have dropped the "dixie" from their name, I got to wondering. They named themselves after the Little Feat song, not the Confederacy, so if the…