This is the one you’ve got to see. Kathryn Bigelow’s “A House of Dynamite” is the one getting all the hype, but “The Perfect Neighbor” will get to you. This is America. My favorite story about a bad neighbor was told to me by Al Kooper. I was complaining to him about my problem neighbor […]

There was a vibe. And it was different from a regular game. The intensity was ratcheted up a notch. You knew you were experiencing something different. And the fact that it could be seen by others on TV…never factored in. It was intimate, for the 52,175 in attendance. But it was not a full house. […]

1 “Baseball players aren’t so square They’ve got beards and stringy hair” “The Sixties” Do you know this song? It’s from T-Bone Burnett’s 1983 album “Proof Through the Night.” He tried to make it as an artist before he broke through as a big time producer… I’d say the Counting Crows’ debut was his breakthrough…remember […]

Wasn’t he just on the road? Is that how this works? You’re alive and fresh, kicking as Simple Minds would say, and then one day you’re just gone? I mean 82 years old. You can’t say that he was ripped-off. But he was vital, and now he’s not here anymore. And another slice of my […]