Arts and Entertainment

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…

Guest post by Nathan Arizona If there really is a creator, and he really does have a master plan, look around these days and you might think this is surely…

For more than 10 years Republicans have done anything for Trump, but sign off on a crooked deal to give him a $1.7 billion slush fund? They won't do that,…

Bioflicks about musicians often do big box office, regardless of whether the subject approves of the project. Approval guarantees music rights, but it also guarantees a positive portrayal that omits…

If you don't like 90-degree highs before Memorial Day, just wait until tonight, when a storm front will move through and leave us with highs in the low 60s throughout…

Guest post by Nathan Arizona The Western Writers America put together a list of the top 100 Western songs according to the Western Writers of America. In first place was…