Arts and Entertainment

Word comes that the Musk administration has given all personnel in the Central Intelligence Agency his "buy-out" offer. It seems to me that pissing off thousands of spies might be…

Even without Demolition Donny's pointless tariffs, prices aren't going down anytime soon, by which I mean "ever." Song of the Day is well-equipped for what's coming, because as long as…

As El Somnambulo noted, last night's Grammy Awards handed out trophies to both the Beatles and the Rolling Stones – the Beatles for "Now and Then," a John Lennon demo…

As my late colleague Allan Loudell used to say, "It's Groundhog Day all over again." I'll watch the 1993 cult classic again tonight as a tonic against our vile, egotistic…

Some people – old ones – will remember Marianne Faithfull as Mick Jagger's girlfriend from London's Swinging '60s. She was 17 and just starting out as a folk singer when…

Summer festival lineups are being announced, and as usual the biggest news is about a band reunion. Wanna feel old? The band is Rilo Kiley. Formed by erstwhile child actors…

I don't think this song, released last fall, made it onto any of El Somnambulo's monthly new music roundups, but it's gotten lots of airplay on WXPN. Beware – it…

It's easier to wreck things than build them. It requires very little brain – three-year-olds are good at it, which lines right up with Trump being good at it. When…

There are those who think we should be nicer to MAGAts, because – this is their theory, not mine – MAGAts vote against their own self-interests in response to liberals…

Elon Musk told Germany's far-right party that Germans should get over their guilt about that whole Holocaust thing. So here's a message for "Misunderstood Gesture" Musk from the – gasp!…

Raise a glass for Pete Hegseth. He's probably already raised a few himself. Willie Nelson recorded this in 1970, before he became an outlaw, though he does look a lot…

It's said that if you walk into any bar in Nova Scotia and sing, "Oh, the year was 1778," you're sure to be answered, "How I wish I was in…