“How country music went crazy: A comprehensive timeline of the genre’s identity crisis” At least they’re having the debate, no one’s fighting over the soul of rock. Will the traditionalists pull country out of the proverbial ditch, leaving trucks and babies by the wayside, or has country truly left Nashville and is just another pop […]

I went to a show and it took all my willpower to refrain from dipping into my pocket and checking my iPhone. An e-mail would be nice, or a text, but in my fingertips I hold a personal link to the entire world, and this has changed not only my behavior, but that of the […]

What kind of crazy fucked up world do we live in where the commercials are funnier than the program? One in which Miley Cyrus radiates such intelligence that she blows away the rest of the show. I’m loath to write about Ms. Cyrus one more time, I don’t want to be one of those bandwagoneers […]

We want to go where everybody else goes. So I’m reading a story in today’s “Los Angeles Times” about redesigning the Dodger Dog, the hot dog staple served since 1958 that has not changed a whit. Turns out the Texas Rangers have a two pound concoction and Atlanta has a hot dog with cole slaw […]