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It’s true that despite the headline above, I have never seen country singer-songwriter Lainey Wilson  posing with a feline. But who can resist putting the boot into the determinedly pubescent twerp that is J.D. Vance? His stupidly mocking phrase, as echoed up top, has become encoded as a

Most of our musical heroes give us, sooner or later, their origin story.     For Springsteen, it arrived with  “Adam Raised A Cain” from the “Darkness On the Edge of Town” album, four records into a run that was taking a turn towards the darker musings that assured his greatness. Bob

The incomparable Tom Petty is just one of the artists Apple Music's `100 Greatest' left in the wings Was it about a decade ago that producers of written and curated content began to live by the tyrannical premise that a numbered list will quicken the pulse of

The problem with yielding our entertainment choices to faceless corporations is there’s no face to slap when it all goes wrong.  What had been intended as a heavy-rotation, hyped-to-the-point-of-aggravation event was all but undone near the end of Sunday night's two-hour presentation of Billy Joel’s 100thconcert

What you may be thinking, esteemed readers, could be that a video of Tina Turner onstage in an arena doing “River Deep Mountain High” would go nicely with the above headline.  And few would disagree.  But that five-word tribute came from a presumed Aussie punter in the Comments section under