TDR:There are several Christmas albums I reach for every year. Jimmy Smith’s “Christmas Cooking” is incredible. If you can get past the drum machines, Fats Domino’s “Christmas Gumbo” is a lot of fun. My wife insists we listen to Emmylou Harris’ “By the Light of the Stable” e...
throughRebel Without a Cause(1955) and the James Dean infatuation required of my teenage years, thatWest Side Storywas not a solitary case. Rather, it was a response to a larger social phenomena and a clear descendant of a genre of films made in the previous decade—the juvenile delinquent...
Swift scored six nominations, followed by Jackson with five and rapperEminemwith four. R&B starBeyonce, hip-hop band theBlack Eyed Peas, pop singerLady Gaga, rock bandKings of Leonand jailed rapperT.I.collected three nominations each. Nominees are determined by radio airplay and retai...
Defense attorneyThomas Mesereau Jr.revealed Monday in the cross-examination of the boy, now 15, that he had once denied being molested in a talk withJeffrey Alpert, a dean at John Burroughs Middle School in Los Angeles. The boy testified Tuesday that he got in fights with other students whe...
a fewtrulynew artists nominated in this category ofCMA nominees.Walker Hayes,Cody JohnsonandLainey Wilsonhave been here for years, and each is either well into a second album or well past their debut. The larger country music community needs to meet artists likeJelly Roll,Jackson DeanandBrel...