LOS ANGELES — In my religion, last Sunday night was like celebrating Mass with the pope at St. Peter’s Square….
What do we possess today as “art”? A faked music, filled with artificial noisiness of massed instruments; a failed painting,…
Last Saturday evening, thanks to a spontaneous bout of channel surfing, I found myself watching, on NRK, Norway’s public-broadcasting network,…
Idiots are like rabbits. When you look around, they are nowhere to be seen. But suddenly, someone sneezes, and they…
I live across the street from a high school, and every weekend I get an earful of whatever music is…
Space organizations will soon send binary-encoded messages to space from radio telescopes, hoping they eventually reach intelligent aliens. A NASA-led…
News has just reached me of the death of country singer, piano player, and songwriter Mickey Gilley on May 7…
While the Oscars, Emmys, and other American award shows are fading into irrelevance, Europe’s big splashy annual entertainment competition, Eurovision,…
My mates from the Spanish band Hombres G are on tour in the United States. Today they’re in San Francisco,…
