People hate hip-hop like they hate Fox News. We’re used to a monoculture in music, a cohesiveness, a comprehensible landscape. But that’s all been shot to hell. But the usual suspects act like it hasn’t. Radio is the land of hip-hop and oldies, along with verticals that seem to exist in their own rarefied air, […]

I lied. It’s not gonna be at the Four Seasons. The reason you haven’t heard from me about the conference is because…the Four Seasons is closed because of the floods, they said they were going to reopen on April 1st, then they were noncommittal and now say they won’t be reopening until June 1st. So, […]

“The thrill of victory… The agony of defeat.” That’s what we heard every Saturday afternoon, when Jim McKay took the mic for ninety minutes as ABC traveled the globe bringing us back footage of events both noteworthy and curious on “Wide World of Sports.” We looked forward to it. We knew the record for jumping […]

He made me feel inadequate. You think you want to go down one path, then you find out you’re unsuited for it. Even worse, you age and discover that your heart’s desire is not. I remember wanting to be an agent, at this late date the idea of negotiating for a living is anathema to […]