Arts and Entertainment
Song of the Day 9/30: Jesse Welles, “Tylenol”
Anyone who thinks the Trump Era calls for protest songs by folk singers should check out Jesse Welles. The 32-year-old Arkansas native has been releasing pointedly snarky tunes about timely for several months now. This one just dropped yesterday. A lot of people compare Welles with Bob Dylan, but his career arc has been the […]
Song of the Day 9/29: Prefab Sprout, “Looking for Atlantis”
Guest post by Nathan Arizona Would Cole Porter name his band Prefab Sprout? Probably not. But Paddy McAloon, leader of that British pop-rock group, has drawn comparisons to Porter for the clever and sophisticated music his band made in the ’80s. Also to Stephen Sondheim. Wait. Cole Porter’s a stretch, but Stephen Sondheim is ridiculous. […]
Song of the Day 9/28: Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen, “Portland, Oregon, You’re My Home”
Donald Trump, deep into the dementia that has stalked him for years, has declared Portland, Ore., a war zone, so he’s sending in the troops. There’s no evidence here on Real Earth than Portland is anything but the weird, rainy city it’s always been, but it has loomed large in the right-wing imagination since the […]
DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: September 28, 2025
How To Grow Your Own Meat (Not A Penile Enlargement Come-On): The Shojinmeat Project helps people grow their own meat, almost like a plant, without an animal having to die. It’s called cultivated meat, and it’s made by taking a few animal cells and helping them grow in a tank called a bioreactor. It’s real […]
Song of the Day 9/26: Robert Johnson, “Come On In My Kitchen”
Looks like Big Cabinet caught Trump’s ear, and those just-announced 50% tariffs on kitchen cabinets and bathroom vanities are going to cost homebuilders and remodelers, not to mention homeowners, even more than Trumpflated groceries. Trump says it will bring employment to places like the Carolinas and Michigan, where I’m sure they’ll be excited to get […]
Song of the Day 9/25: Cat Stevens, “The Hurt”
The musician known as Yusuf/Cat Stevens was scheduled to kick off the American leg of his current tour in Philadelphia Oct. 2, but it seems the show is likely to be delayed if not cancelled. His Instagram account announced that his “Cat On The Road To Findout — An Evening Of Tales, Tunes, And Other […]
Song of the Day 9/24: Adriano Celentano, “Prisencolinensinainciusol”
Trump confused the United Nations with Nürnberg yesterday, and most of the audience sat stone-faced through his disquisition. My guess is the translators went on a wildcat strike and refused to accurately convey Trump’s stream of insults and braggadocio and let them hear him in English. For anyone who can’t speak it, Adriano Celentano recorded […]
Song of the Day 9/23: Huey Lewis and the News, “I Want a New Drug”
Autism, you’ll be happy to know, is now a thing of the past, thanks to sex pervert and whale carcass mutilator RFK Jr. – just keep the pregnant women away from the acetaminophen and give the kids who are already autistic leucovorin, a drug currently used to treat side effects of cancer drugs. See? How […]
Song of the Day 9/22: Jeff Tweedy, “Lou Reed Was My Babysitter”
Jeff Tweedy, the singer-songwriter who led Uncle Tupelo and Wilco, is an icon of what 30 years ago was known as Americana – back then, basically folk rock with more emphasis on the rock than the folk. Fans know Tweedy’s early influences included punk bands, but I still wasn’t expecting this homage to Lou Reed […]
Song of the Day 9/21: Buckingham Nicks, “Crying in the Night”
Before they joined Fleetwood Mac, Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks performed as a duo. They released one folk-rock album in 1973 that got more attention for its cover than anything inside. It sold poorly, but Buckingham’s guitar playing caught Mick Fleetwood’s ear and he was asked to join the group. He said he and Nicks […]
When the Rubber Meets the Road
Delaware Democrats are gung-ho for electric vehicles when they’re legislating. They sing a different tune when the rubber meets the road. DelDOT is worried about revenue, so it’s imposing new registration fees for EVs. This solution makes owning an electric vehicle more costly, thereby disincentivizing EV ownership – while at the same time incentivizing their […]
Song of the Day 9/19: Darrell Banks, “Open the Door to Your Heart”
For entertainers, dying is supposedly a good career move, but it doesn’t always work out that way. Sometimes it’s just a one-way ticket to Palookaville. Darrell Banks coulda been somebody. He had a soul hit in 1966 with a song he called “Open the Door to Your Heart” that reached No. 2 on the R&B […]
Song of the Day 8/18: Tom Petty, “It’s Good to Be King”
Donald Trump quite obviously wants to be a king, so it probably galls him – doesn’t everything? – to visit an actual one. The contrast couldn’t be starker: Charles is a king but not a dictator, while Trump is a dictator but not a king. Also, Charles isn’t a child who puts ketchup on everything, […]
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