As part of Goodfellas day over at The Ringer, I wrote about Martin Scorsese’s visionary employment of music in general and the “Layla” sequence in particular. Check it out if it soun
In case you missed it, over at The Ringer I wrote about the 20th anniversary of Anthony Bourdain’s industry-disrupting “Kitchen Confidential”, the memoir which set into motion his re
Sixteen years! Sixteen banners united!! Fundraising is not an easy or pleasurable undertaking. That’s why it’s not called “Funraising,” or something equally whimsical. No one p
Over at The Ringer I wrote about “The Trip To Greece”, the fourth edition in a hilarious and melancholy series of adventures which depicts the travels of the mismatched British comedians R
Uh oh. This was the initial thought that crossed my mind when I saw the news on Friday that Bob Dylan had released his first original song since 2012’s LP Tempest. The timing, coinciding with th
Even as we learn less and less, the impassable jungle of idiotic punditry grows and multiplies and mutates and regenerates, ultimately infecting something like 55% of us overall. In moments like the c
Over at The Ringer, I wrote about the startling new Drive-By Truckers LP ‘The Unraveling’: a scary, funny and mesmerizing howl of dissent which seeks to light a path to personal redemption
No NFL storyline in the 2019 season has been more compelling than the emergence of Baltimore Ravens’ quarterback Lamar Jackson as the sport’s most electrifying superstar, a dual-threat run-pas