Aretha: The Queen of Us All
Sean MurphyARETHA FRANKLIN, 1967, Atlantic Records publicity portrait. Debate will—and should—rage forever regarding royalty and who can claim it: who is The King? Elvis Presley is who white people crowned, Chuck…
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown: Remembering Michael Jackson (Revisited)
How do you know you've made an indelible impact on culture? Here's how. Listen: this story has been told so many times it is inextricable from the history of America.…
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown: Remembering Michael Jackson (Revisited)
How do you know you've made an indelible impact on culture? Here's how. Listen: this story has been told so many times it is inextricable from the history of America.…
This Week in Music, 1983 (Revisited)
I don't know what you were up to but I was partying like it was 1983. Due to the miracles of technology, we can see precisely how I was living,…
33 Thoughts about Villanova vs. Georgetown, 1985 (Revisited)
March Madness, indeed. The timing could not have been better: gearing up for another annual marathon to see which team emerges from the fray (and that’s just my personal bracket),…
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown… (Five Years Later)
How do you know you've made an indelible impact on culture? Here's how. Listen: this story has been told so many times it is inextricable from the history of America.…
33 Thoughts about Villanova vs. Georgetown, 1985
March Madness, indeed. The timing could not have been better: gearing up for another annual marathon to see which team emerges from the fray (and that’s just my personal bracket),…
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown… (Revisited)
How do you know you've made an indelible impact on culture? Here's how. Listen: this story has been told so many times it is inextricable from the history of America.…
This Week in Music: 1983
I don't know what you were up to but I was partying like it was 1983. Due to the miracles of technology, we can see precisely how I was living,…
They Lived This Way Because No One Else Could (Revisited)
Everyone has their favorite picture. I can't say this one is mine, but it will do. Even though I was always too young to fully (or even partially) feel the…