Liberated Dissonance

I spent yesterday evening in the company of nine attractive, sympathetic, and chatty women whom I had not seen in at least twenty-seven year...

FZ's classic appearance on the old "Steve Allen Show," offered here as filler between real posts. I do wish, however, that All...

The poor little Windsor born the other day will most likely be named something safe, dull, and Anglo-Saxon. Oddsmakers in the UK are taking ...

Cover art by Cal Schenkel A few nights ago I finished reading Shell Shocked by Howard Kaylan, front man of the '60s pop group The T...

Carlin gave this speech to the National Press Club in 1999:

David Cohen is a Philadelphia guitar player whom I once interviewed for Ticket and with who once accompanied me to a set by Rickie Lee Jones...

For Ticket this week, I've written a single preview of two concerts &#8212 an all-Russian program, and a tribute to Van Cliburn. I ...

Merrill Reese, who has been calling the games of the Philadelphia Eagels on radio since 1977, will appear with the Philadelphia Orchestra Ju...

Two months ago, you couldn't turn on the TV or read a paper (if you still read papers) without tripping over the latest scandal inside t...

Yesterday, I interviewed, by phone, Peter Schickele , creator of the unfortunately immortal P.D.Q. Bach, about his scheduled appearance with...