This is not a harbinger of what’s to come, this is the last gasp of a dead paradigm. In other words, record reviews are history. We needed them. Because there was no way to hear most of the music. We needed guidance before we laid down our cold hard cash. And we got to the […]

Not the city, not “Babylon Berlin,” but the prequel to “Money Heist.” Did you know about it? I didn’t even hear they were making it, but earlier in the week I saw a listing in the “New York Times” saying it was premiering on Friday and made a mental note to check it out. Last […]

Rhetorical question? It’s because our brains are still wired to 10,000 years ago. When change nearly always meant danger, trouble, and even death. It’s why people long for the good old days when houses were cheap and breast cancer was a death sentence and college was cheap for the lucky few who could get in […]

Everybody’s lost interest. It’s fallen down the charts. The audience has moved on. If this were a band, the pause in fighting would be perceived as a career misstep, a loss in momentum, something hard to recover from. You’ve got to agree that Taylor Swift knows how to fight a war. During a pause in […]