Many songs have been written in tribute to Martin Luther King Jr., all of them heartfelt, many of them touching. But no other calls forth King's message with the passion…
Remember Bill O'Reilly, the Fox News blowhard? You probably haven't thought about him in a long time – Fox News 86'd him back in 2017 over his long history of…
Okay, I get why Southern states want to starve their schoolchildren over the summer months, when school's out of session and they can't get free lunch. Those states are governed…
Folk-rock duo Billy Pilgrim formed in Atlanta in the early '90s, when R.E.M. was breaking indie music into the mainstream. Because both Kristian Bush and Andrew Hyra wrote songs, played…
Wheatus is a one-hit wonder whose big hit is more than 20 years old, but it's become a classic because it's been revived so many times over the years. Brendan…
For a while there, when the pandemic forced most people to work from home and most of the work got done anyway, Americans looked forward to a future free of…
I still can't get over Trump's bonkers statement about magnets, to wit: "Now all I know about magnets is this: Give me a glass of water, let me drop it…
Given the media's eight-year obsession with Donald Trump, you would think the fact that he's odiferous would have emerged before now. A person of my close acquaintance who interviewed him…
Unless you grew up in the '60s, it's hard to imagine how naive the Boomers were in their youth. They actually thought singing about peace could bring it about. Nowadays…
T Bone Burnett is well-known and widely respected as a producer, but before he embarked on that career he was a guitarist – he played in Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue…
Punk-pop veterans and Rock Hall of Famers Green Day waded into America's politico-cultural wars on New Year's Eve when frontman Billie Joe Armstrong altered a line of the band's signature…
The Mummers Parade is hanging in there, even if it's much diminished. The march nowadays runs only from City Hall to Washington Street, in the wrong direction, and it doesn't…