hollywood
Rickles, O’Neill, RIP

Two tragic losses today: the deaths of the great comedian Don Rickles and the music lyrici...

people
The Thrill Is Gone: RIP, B.B. King

Thirty years ago, this writer was granted an assignment to review a B. B. King concert at ...

journalism
Savoring Hillary’s Vow of Silence

The national media are sulking. Hillary Clinton won’t speak to them. But what is it ab...

movies
Actor Denzel Washington Urges Dillard University Graduates: ‘Put God First’

From ChristianNews.net: NEW ORLEANS, La. — Oscar-winning actor Denzel Washington urged ...

manners-and-morals
Kyle and Jenner: The Price of Fame is the Destruction of Heroism

“True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doin...

manners-and-morals
Speith’s Classy Performance at the Master’s Is One for the Ages

Jordan Speith won the Masters golf tournament at age 21 and showed a great amount of cla...

music
A Clear-Eyed Look at George Harrison: ‘Behind The Locked Door’

There has been a tendency in recent years to put George Harrison on a pedestal. As the m...

music
How to Write a Rock Memoir: Steve Kilbey’s ‘Something Quite Peculiar’

If I had to name the best rock ’n’ roll memoir ever written, I'd say, after some del...

people
Jon Stewart and the Death of Mainstream Media News Credibility

The news this week has been, for worse and better, more about those who read it on-air t...

genres
Star Wars, George Lucas, and the Pitfalls of ‘Auteur Theory’

It's a storyline we celebrate every Oscar season: the uncompromising film director, locke...

people
Woody Allen, Amazon Ink Deal for New Streaming Series

My favorite theologian, Woody Allen, is coming to twenty-first century TV. From this morni...

art
Avenging the Honor of Free Speech

January 7, 2015, will be remembered as the day Islamic terrorists declared war against f...

music
New Dylan Album Will Rework Sinatra Songs

I suppose it didn't actually have to happen, but to me it seems just right: Bob Dylan ha...

journalism
Who’s Responsible for Cosby’s Crimes (If Any)

Since the sickening allegations of Bill Cosby raping numerous women first hit the news, we...

humor-2
Carvey: Entertainment Industry Punishes Political Evenhandedness

It's not news that Hollywood and the entertainment community in general have a strong prog...

music
Welcoming Giorgio to the Millennial Generation

Good music is good music, and I like to dabble in all kinds of it. Rock, jazz, country, go...

music
Campbell Documentary Celebrates Country Artist

As a country musician, Glen Campbell wasn't widely known, among the general audience, for...

journalism
Comedian-Turned-Pundit Branded as Poseur

I enjoyed Rod Liddle's recent article in the UK Spectator (a terrific magazine) for its...

people
Joan Rivers: A Little Heroine

Comedienne Joan Rivers died yesterday at the age of 81, after a medical procedure to repai...

economicspolicy
Bogie, Bacall, and Communism

Paul Kengor, one of the top contemporary experts on the infiltration of the United State...

movies
The Tragic Implications of Comedian Robin Williams’s Suicide

The death by suicide of actor-comedian Robin Williams will undoubtedly set loose a torr...

mysteries
Court Rebukes Doyle Heirs for Greed and Extortion

In a long-overdue victory for common sense and freedom of expression, the U.S. Court of ...

manners-and-morals
Dungy Defended, Media Blasted

Addressing the media "fertilizer storm" over former Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Indianapol...

movies
The Real (but Limited) Appeal of James Garner’s Antiheroes

Next Monday, Turner Classic Movies presents a special tribute to the late James Garner, w...

culture101
A Tribute to George Strait

George Strait, now on his retirement tour, is one of the greats of country music. Combinin...

movies
Remembering Mickey Rooney’s Hardy Films, Other Achievements

To an aficionado of classic black-and-white movies, the death of Mickey Rooney has special...

humor-2
When Harold Met Norm–The Real Harold Ramis

If you want to know a little more about Harold Ramis, the widely admired comic actor-write...

music
Forty Years of Drooling, and They Put You on the Graveyard Shift

By Bruce Edward Walker 1970 was a pivotal year for rock music. By the time it entered i...

people
Reagan v. Obama Smackdown on Socialized Medicine

Well, it's sort of a smackdown, with a dead man exhibiting far more good sense than a livi...

commerce
Milton Friedman, Thou Should’st Be Living at This Hour!

Gary Wolfram, in a commentary on The Business & Media Institute website, notes: Today,...

manners-and-morals
NFL’s Urlacher Not Bothered by ‘Neo-Nazi’ Slur

Brian Urlacher of the NFL's Chicago Bears showed yesterday how a gentleman handles being t...

commerce
‘Progressive’ Nonprofit Urges Politically Themed Movies

A public policy focused nonprofit is getting into the movie business. It wants Hollywood t...

journalism
Shirley Sherrod, Racism, Fox News and a Raw Deal

I've been too busy with paying work to read everything on this kerfuffle. But I see now t...