Archives for April 2006

AHEAD-OF-HER-TIME SINEAD, NOW WORSE... FLAILING IN A NETHERWORLD OF POST-CONSTITUTIONAL DENIAL... PILLAGING A SEEMINGLY MORE INNOCENT PAST TO MAKE EVEN LESS SENSE OF AN INCOMPREHENSIBLE PRESENT... TOM LEHRER DROPS SATIRE WHEN REALITY SURPASES HIS ABILITY TO MAKE FUN OF IT... OVER FORTY YEARS AND … [Read more...]

'TIL YOU GET ENOUGH In retrospect, the crotch clutch seems at once desperate and abstract. It is as if he were telling us, "Fine, you need to know I'm a man, a black man? Here's my dick: I'll thrust my dick at you! Isn't that what a black man's supposed to do? But I'm Michael Jackson, so just … [Read more...]

WILL NOT APOLOGIZE "Billy Joel is no Leonard Bernstein..." FOR ITS CHEESE [WAIT! THERE'S MORE...] MORE CATHOLIC RECRUITMENT SLOGANS: "I think for myself not to come up with my own teaching," he writes, "but to make the Church's teaching my own." … [Read more...]

DIED. CASPAR WEINBERGER, 88, wry, intellectual public servant whose long record of toil in the White Houses of Presidents Nixon, Ford and Reagan was marred by a late, rare blemish: a 1992 indictment for allegedly covering up facts in the Iran-contra scandal, which he vigorously denied and for which … [Read more...]

Gasbag cranium duty on History Channel's 10 DAY-WORLD -SHAKE series, the Elvis installment, airs Tuesday, April 11, at 9/8pm. Brought to you by MasterCard: the freaky-deeky credit card with the curiously pre-Wiki CompoundName. … [Read more...]

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Tickets are still available for this Concord Chamber Music Society's Special Artist benefit, featuring Yefim Bronfman. Here's the scoop: Friday, April 7 @ 7:00pm (Pre-concert lecture with Steven Ledbetter begins at 6:00pm) Concord Academy Performing Arts Center 166 Main St. Concord, MA Fantasy, Op. … [Read more...]

SHILLING FOR HISTORY Go here and click on "When America Was Rocked," airs next Tuesday, April 11 at 9/8 on the History Channel. Taped last summer. … [Read more...]