a Christmas party, a tree that gets big. Then you have a variety of people who do dances that seem to go on and on ad nauseam. Technically it’s a mess, too; Acts I and II have practically nothing to do with each other. … What you don’t have is plot. No logic. You have l...
John Denver John Denver is another of the very few pre-2000 CMA Entertainers of the Year who is not in the Country Music Hall of Fame. He won in 1975, when pop-folk was a thing and songs like “Sweet Surrender” couldn’t be stopped. The problem with Denver’s candidacy is that he...
Our advice—which is not disguised in the least—is that when you feel an impulse to ask a “have you” question (and you will), simply stop yourself, and add the word “What” to the beginning to make it an open question. Closed questions are a helpful interviewing tool—as long as...
but I knew one day I’d feel it in my heart to do an entire run of shows on my own again, just like those early days,” Mayer wrote in today’s post. “It took a couple of decades, but I feel it now. I’ll be playing old songs. Newer songs. Songs you haven’...
Of one of their bigger hits, "Supersonic," Noel later added, “I sing ‘Supersonic’ with the same melody, the same words, the same inflections, but when he sings it, it’s a bit more menacing. When I would sing a song it would sound good, when he would sing it, it would so...
and Google will buy a content library. Google’s always been a bit confused about what its entertainment strategy should be. YouTube is so damn big, and its search business so bulletproof, the company hasn’t really had to play the game the way Meta, Amazon, and Apple have. That likely...
* * * Ode to the Road We now shift gears toE.B. White,who was poetically inspired by an advertisement in theHerald Tribunethat featuredPrince Alexis A. Droutzkoy(a member of the exiled White Russian colony in New York) praising the “magic silence” of the new “Dodge Six” automobile...
After Presley’s death in 1977, Burton joined John Denver’s band and worked with him for the next 20 years. He recorded and toured with Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Costello, and he appeared on albums by artists ranging from Robert Plant, Frank Sinatra and Johnny Cas...
Can you see the present government snubbing the road haulage lobby and taking those kind of steps? We’d agree that getting long-distance freight off the roads would be better for the environment. But the Green ideologists don’t try very hard against certain business interests, do they?
But for the environment department tasked with making South Africa’s natural riches pay their way in the world’s most unequal country, it solves a number of problems: adding to the value of antelope that inhabit vast tracts of marginal or degraded land, increasing the incentive to preserve ...