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 […]

Who’s gonna win the Grammy? I don’t give a shit. To think that the Grammys mean anything is to misunderstand the impact of the show. Your appearance could impact your career, a victory is barely more than meaningless. Come on, who won last year? The year before? So I don’t get caught up in the […]

The inside joke is the corpulent Christie is a huge fan of the Boss. And who really is the Boss? The people with all the money or those with all the fans, the artists? That’s the power of performers… The ability to move the masses. Back when they used to stand for something, way before […]

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 […]