“Hope” for 2009
Updated That, and other news, in today’s Roundup and Recap. I’m back from a week in Minneapolis for the Christmas holiday, and there’s a few items on the docket as 2008 winds to a close. Shepard…
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Eartha Kitt
Even today it’s difficult to imagine an entertainer, upon an invitation to the White House, having the guts to use the occasion to directly confront the administration. That is exactly what Eartha…
Season’s Greetings
A Merry Christmas to all ….
Christmas 40 Years Ago
Here’s a reminder that in the face of strife and division, there can be unity around a single adventure.
W&W on the Radio: Christmas Eve 2008
We pick the year’s angels … and Scrooges on the latest edition of Wilshire & Washington On the Radio. Join myself, Meagan Carberry and Teresa Valdez Klein for this Christmas Eve edition of our show…
Arnold’s Christmas Carol
I’m in Minneapolis this week, freezing as I never have been, but I just returned from the Guthrie Theater’s wonderful performance of Charles Dickens’ "A Christmas Carol." So it is perhaps fitting…
Merry Christmas — Happy Birthday
Tony Martin celebrates his 95th birthday on Christmas day. No birthday party for him, but some friends are toasting him at dinner on Wednesday evening. When I spoke to him today, he was working with…
Etheridge’s Statement
A follow to the previous post, in which Melissa Etheridge echoes her wife’s own views of Rick Warren and suggests that the pastor now believes that he made a poor choice of words. She writes on…
Hollywood hit with cold spell
Snow? Snow in New Orleans recently and then the biggest snow fall in 30 years in Las Vegas! What is this old world coming to? While the eccentricity of it may make us smile, there is no joy in…
Here’s a fine nine to round out ’08
Rolling Stone, the New York Times and Spin picked "Dear Science" from TV on the Radio as album of the year, while the music news website Pitchfork and NPR listeners went with the debut from the Fleet…
Melissa Etheridge Meets Rick Warren
Updated Liberal Hollywood’s reaction to Barack Obama’s choice of Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at his swearing in ceremony was swift and immediate: Expressions of disappointment, wonderment…
