Archive for the 'Books' Category


The Kathy Valentine Book

All I Ever Wanted: A Rock ‘n’ Roll Memoir She got pregnant at twelve. Do all artists come from a fucked-up background? After all, if you’re loved and complete, what do you have to bitch about? Plenty, but not as much as the broken people. Kathy Valentine drank and drugged with her single mother, who […]

Arts Review

“The Dutch House” Ann Patchett This is a huge bestseller, and deservedly so. Most of the big sellers today are genre books, mysteries, thrillers and lowbrow stuff that cannot be recommended. But “The Dutch House” is a good old-fashioned story, about people and their lives. And just like real life, everything doesn’t always work out. […]

Internet Ignorance

There’s an amazing story on the “New York Times” app: “Trump Won the Internet. Democrats Are Scrambling to Take It Back. – In the era of big data, memes and disinformation, the Democrats are trying to regain their digital edge as the president and his loyalists dictate the term of the debate” Bottom line? There’s […]

The Valhalla Murders

The biggest story in TV this week is “The Tiger King,” the seven part Netflix documentary that might look unappealing if you’re not a big cat aficionado, but the people are so whacked, you cannot take your eyes off it. The funniest thing is this was all happening under our noses and we were unaware […]