Wes Phillips

When it comes to trash talk, it would seem so. Numbers two and four completely cracked me up.

Once we understand it, maybe we can create more of it.

Ten years after Big Blue beat Garry Kasparov, people are still fighting over the definition of "really playing chess" is.

If you bumped into these composers at the Kwick-E-Mart, would you recognize them?

Howard Mandel has written a wonderful essay on Maria Schneider. First Fred Kaplan name-dropped her, now this—I have got to get my tucchus to one of her gigs.

David Gates is grumpy about the hoopla over On the Road's 50^th anniversary. Grumpy, but not to the point of ignoring the occasion.

Has Scorsese made the ultimate up-close-and-personal documentary about the Rolling Stones? While I'm sure it's a good concert movie, I'm not sure there is any reality to the Stones any more. As a student of film, Scorsese knows that when the legend becomes fact, you shoot the legend.