As soon as my wife Judy and I decided to go to Chicago for our vacation I started talking about going to Hammond. Judy understands…
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Best Thing I Heard All Week: James McMurtry, Complicated Game. Hear them crabbers cuss the weather And they cuss the government too Nowadays crabbin' and…
Back in the days right after the extinction of the dinosaurs, when I was still new to New York City, it was a pretty frequent…
Next time you see some gushing twit handing out a load of bullshit at the Academy Awards about the power of movies to 'change the world,' consider Dr. Strangelove.
To this day “Oh, Lord, it’s Jerry Lee Lewis,” or some variation of that, is probably a fairly common response to any encounter with Jerry Lee; his reputation has always preceded him. It was pretty much my reaction when I heard there was yet another Jerry Lee Lewis book on the horizon.
I met Peter Matthiessen once when the Friends of the Library were selling books at the Koret Auditorium in 2001. Matthiessen was featured speaker at…
Rosanne Cash’s last CD was called The List; an album of covers released in 2009 and drawn from a list given to her by her…
To me the most boring part of any biography is the beginning. You know, all that stuff about the subject’s childhood and schooling and who…