The Women Of L.A. We’re in the midst of a creative renaissance. Facebook is dying, geeks get all the press, but we’re living in a heyday of art. It’s the majors’ worst nightmare, from the networks to the labels to the studios. They used to be in control. They had the money needed for production […]

Now when I was at college, we had something called “Winter Term,” a four and a half week stretch wherein we took only one course, intensively and… Skied all afternoon and smoked dope all night. I stumbled into my freshman winter term course, “Political Campaigning,” wherein you ran your candidate all the way to the […]

That’s a PERK! My inbox is blowing up with the sour grapes people complaining that Amanda Palmer owes her success to her “millionaire” husband Neil Gaiman. As if she courted him from infancy and rode his coattails to notoriety and riches. To quote a Who song you probably don’t know, and should, “it don’t really […]

Albums keep getting longer and every time I crack a Dannon yogurt…I find less inside. How would you feel if you were a heroin addict and Afghanistan switched to producing cocaine? Or if the Yankees still occupied their stadium, but they now played soccer? Pretty disillusioning, wouldn’t you think? Man, I’m in withdrawal. The food […]