The record store is dead. A recent business story said the top four music stores were Wal-Mart, Best Buy, iTunes and Amazon.com. Not a music...

First I was in London and Cannes for a month. As soon as I returned, my nephew arrived for a two week internship. The day before he left my ...

Angelina Jolie is in the news for all the wrong reasons. While promoting her film "A Mighty Heart," the story of a journalist who ...

Been gone for a month and still switching over bookmarks and info from my PC to my Mac. (And yes, I'm very happy with the Mac so far and...

I'll be blogging daily for The Advocate at www.advocateinsider.com (can't figure out how to do links for French blogger) and I'l...

Is there any doubt? If she isn't, it'll be the first time looks beat out talent. I think Blake's talented too and he seems to kn...

Yep, that's the story: not the name of the two finalists but the fact that the most consistently good singer is going home. It made Blak...

UPDATE: I just read Entertainment Weekly's rundown of the show (some of which I missed. Hey, I'm in Cannes so it ain't easy stay...

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I've been in LA and Illinois and now I'm off to London and Cannes. It's been a very hectic two months. Hence the lack of ANY pos...

Whoops! I'm so harried getting ready for London and Cannes that I forgot to post! BARRY GIBB -- good guest coach, though I kept thinking...

It's never a good sign when the show starts being too self-aware. If you can have Ryan Seacrest joke about filler in the hour long resul...

Bon Jovi night? Sure, they sold a ton of records and there are only six contestants so they only need six songs. But limiting them to Bon Jo...

Just back from LA for a story and then Illinois for the Roger Ebert Film Festival. I just watched Idol Gives Back and it was just as cheesey...

Okay, just back from LA and off to Illinois for the Roger Ebert Film Festival. Here's a quick, not-so-detailed impression. INSPIRATION -...

I swear on my golden "Idol" that in the future my picks for the bottom two will be simply my picks for the least effective songs. ...

Okay, this blog has become the "Idol" only blog. That will change after my current crush of traveling: I'm in LA this weekend ...

A strange thought came over me during "American Idol" last night. Yes, everyone has been saying for a while that the show is a phe...

Yep, just a little blogging between performance night and the results show on Idol. Seems like old times, doesn't it? Buying a Mac this ...

Variety says four of Don Imus's top ten sponsors are pulling their ads from his show, though they don't detail whether this refers t...

The Times Of London points out that subtitled movies have gone mainstream, but they don't really nail down why. Certainly, the growing ...

A writer for the Times of London has read the "new" JRR Tolkein book "The Children Of Hurin." He liked it, sort of, but...

Nick Drake died or committed suicide 33 years ago and we've had numerous reissues of his three proper albums, a fourth album of outtakes...

It's a shame, in a way. "The Sopranos" was building to a series finale where Carmela officially turned her back on Tony and th...

I suppose Blur has been on "hiatus" for a while now and since Damon Albarn keeps releasing new albums will new collaborators it ce...

A fire swept through Johnny Cash's home, now owned by Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees (he was remodeling it). Among the strange comments: a m...

Well, one thing is clear -- Sanjaya isn't going anywhere. In easly the most boring performance show yet, Sanjaya didn't just enterta...

It was a Michael-Palooza yesterday in the NY Daily News. Here's my cover story on Kevin Spacey . Here's my profile of Shia LaBeouf ....

My friends at NYCD have an op-ed in the New York Times about the music industry . Congrats!

I was right! I was wrong! Yes, I correctly I predicted I would be wrong and boy was I right. I only named one of the bottom three (Phil) an...