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It's Monday. It's raining. And people, tourists in particular, (excuse me, why don’t you just poke out the other eye while you're at it!) cannot walk with umbrellas, so let’s talk Ticketmaster.
In late September/early October singer/songwriter Lucinda Williams is coming to both Los Angeles and New York for multi-night stands where the first set will be one of her older records in its entirety and the second a mix of new stuff. It's a wonderful idea that I wish more artists would adopt. In some ways, it's a dream come true. How about the Stones do Let It Bleed or Exile followed by their…
Who am I to critique somebody else's field of study?
There's a new biography of Leo Szilard, the physicist who proposed the Strangelovian "doomsday weapon."
Arthur Mole and John Thomas arranged thousands of soldiers, reservists, and nurses into various patriotic symbols and photographed them from above—a description which, while being accurate, doesn't prepare you for their work.
Let's Play the Caption Game!
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Here I am, captured by the wily paparazzi (Mark Fleischmann), at today's Denon press event in ever-rising downtown Jersey City, conveniently located only minutes from my humble abode.
Denon introduced a large and impressive new line of products aimed at achieving simple and seamless whole-home networking. Among the new components were 13 A/V receivers, a couple of smart-looking iPod docks, some snazzy remote control components, and even a couple of compact 2.1 systems.
Nevertheless, I was drawn — like the card that I am…
Me, I'm lucky—I work with a great editor and an even better copy editor. It's win-win.
I love Tothian: He "doesn't wear a mask because it blocks his peripheral vision, and says he doesn't wear a cape 'because capes get in the way of actually doing real superhero stuff.'"
Wagner's 29-year-old great-granddaughter debuts her production of Die Meistersinger tonight. It's part of a multi-generational saga that rivals the Ring cycle for drama.