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by | Feb 14, 2023

Madonna, such an ageist that she bought a younger woman’s face, richly complains about ageism in people dumbstruck that she bought a younger woman’s face. She also bought a younger women’s breasts and buttocks. But must one list her surgeries,…

by | Feb 10, 2023

My parents were very different people from very different backgrounds, but they bonded over at least two things: movies and music. While their tastes in film overlapped heavily, he liked a lot of movies she didn’t care for — such…

by | Dec 27, 2022

Bob Dylan’s The Philosophy of Modern Song lured many reviewers into divining it as a sort of psychological autobiography. Dylan’s analysis offered in the opening chapter on Bobby Bare’s “Detroit City” regarding the song’s protagonist, “He’s able to manufacture a…

by | Nov 27, 2022

Jerry Lee Lewis died on Oct. 28, 2022. He had not charted a hit song for many years. His trademark furious movements were distant memories. His voice had grown scratchier. His visibility had receded to an audience comprised of loyal…

by | Nov 24, 2022

LOS ANGELES — In my religion, last Sunday night was like celebrating Mass with the pope at St. Peter’s Square. I was fortunate and delighted to join some 50,000 congregants of what I call the First Church of Song at…

by | Aug 28, 2022

What do we possess today as “art”? A faked music, filled with artificial noisiness of massed instruments; a failed painting, full of idiotic, exotic and showcard effects, that every ten years or so concocts out of the form-wealth of millennia…

by | Jul 27, 2022

Last Saturday evening, thanks to a spontaneous bout of channel surfing, I found myself watching, on NRK, Norway’s public-broadcasting network, the opening minutes of something I never even knew existed: the Eurovision Young Musicians competition.   Eurovision Young Musicians is not…

by | Jun 28, 2022

Idiots are like rabbits. When you look around, they are nowhere to be seen. But suddenly, someone sneezes, and they come out from under the bushes by the hundreds. Most people who work in the woke entertainment industry do so…

by | Jun 5, 2022

I live across the street from a high school, and every weekend I get an earful of whatever music is popular among the young and reckless. For about a year, it was nothing (thank you, Gov. Northam), but ever since…

by | May 21, 2022

Space organizations will soon send binary-encoded messages to space from radio telescopes, hoping they eventually reach intelligent aliens. A NASA-led team of scientists is sending the right message to the wrong place. A group called Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence (METI) is…

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