Playlist 12-17-10
This is getting to be a bad habit: Posting this set list later and later. Let’s blame the holidays, shall we? Started off Friday’s show with some Bill Withers and…
Attack of the Santas
It wasn’t the optimum day to kick around and trawl the pubs – the crowds in town for the holiday trappings was approaching overkill. But I realized I had a…
Christmas with the Waldos
One more story about my recent weekend visit to New York City: Stopping in to see the Christmas tour of Jesse Malin with Marah and others. I had vaguely marked…
Paulie’s Recent Splash
It’s been a fruitful season for Paul McCartney, who at 68 has been playing small newsmaking gigs on both sides of the ocean – at the Apollo and the 100…
Buying Back the Past
The bulge in the population represented by post-World War II baby boomers doesn’t just affect Social Security futures. It also affects rock ‘n’ roll. This was the rock generation, after…
Carrie Fisher Does ‘Wishful Drinking’
Carrie Fisher, who presents her “Wishful Drinking” special on HBO Sunday, says that indeed her mother, Debbie Reynolds has seen it. And? "Well, I’m out of the will" she deadpanned.…
Playlist ‘n’ Podcast 12-10-12
Thinking of Aretha Franklin, after reports this week that she has pancreatic cancer. Then some soul from all over, from the Mar-ks to Cee-Lo, a musical salute to Hannukuh before…
Lennon 30: When Beatlemania Turned Deadly
When someone says ``Beatlemania,'' it usually conjures up black-and-white footage of girls in outdated clothing jumping up and down at airports and weeping in theater seats. Yet another kind of…
TV Eye 12-8-10: Barack the ‘Mythbuster’
. Barack Obama makes his reality TV debut, charging the hosts of “Mythbusters” (Discovery, 9 p.m.) to revisit for a third time Archimedes’s legendary feat of causing a ship to burst…
A New ‘Prep & Landing’
Hidden after the annual “A Charlie Brown Christmas” this year is the real treat under the tree, a new seven-minute short from Prep & Landing, the two elves in the…