Madonna, such an ageist that she bought a younger woman’s face, richly complains about ageism in people dumbstruck that she…
My parents were very different people from very different backgrounds, but they bonded over at least two things: movies and…
Bob Dylan’s The Philosophy of Modern Song lured many reviewers into divining it as a sort of psychological autobiography. Dylan’s…
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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…
