On to the Super Bowl! That’s the shelf life of an ersatz awards show these days. The fawning press, part of the sell-out gravy train, casts no critical eye, the public tweets its snarkiness, and by breakfast we’re done with the Pop Tart and on to something new. Blame Neil Portnow. Blame Ken Ehrlich. But […]

Steven Tyler is a rock star, James Taylor is a national treasure and Lady Gaga knows that fun is the one thing that money can’t buy. Yes, last night at the L.A. Convention Center baby boomers celebrated the life and work of Carole King while across town at the Beats party Gen X honored hip-hop […]

I never thought I’d see Bernie play with them again. But it was that kind of night, a homecoming. No, we didn’t find out about the show on KMET, but we did all get in our cars and drive south to where a building always described as a wedding cake awaited our arrival. But this […]

It’s an ersatz show with barely more than meaningless medals, but it does prove that the arts are our nation’s heritage, its driver, its soul. I mean when you see the President and his wife rocking out, you know that music moves the country in a way no other medium can, and if you just […]