Hilarious stuff. (SEQUESTER DIARY—Issue: 3/2/13) How you are able to take such pathetic mismanagement of the federal government by the president and the Congress and put it into such personal terms? It is a talent. Not sure where you were going with it, but if I may, I interpret it…

The music industry experienced two significant deaths in the last couple weeks. First, of country music legend George Jones, who died on April 26 at 81, and second, of Slayer guitarist Jeff Hanneman, who died May 2 at the age of 49 of liver failure.

I’m not one for mourning…

Keith Kenny has never relied on the promptness of strangers and musicians. And while has used a band for several previous releases, on And The Light Came Blaring In, Kenny relies more on his lone power of compositional grit than his usual fret board grandeur.

On the creation of…

The 78th annual NFL Draft concluded this weekend, and while some teams bolstered their squads by selecting future stars, others made some very questionable decisions. Unlike in years past, this draft had no clear-cut number one selection, as we had to go right down to the wire to find…

Locals, we meet again. It’s time to chat about some hot local artists from New Jersey that are on my radar! I am pleased to say that I have some bands to feature that are somewhat new to me, for I have just become introduced to them. It still…

I wasn’t necessarily looking forward to reading Springsteen On Springsteen: Interviews, Speeches And Encounters (Chicago Review Press), edited by New Jersey journalist Jeff Burger. Truth be told, I just wanted to see if my own interview (“The Return Of The Native,” Aquarian Weekly October 11, 1978) would be included.…

Sticky Fingers have spent the last 20 or so years touring the world, performing their legendary Rolling Stones tribute. Now they have released their own album, Like A Rolling Stone, and the Glen Carroll-led ensemble have created a record that sounds like what the Rolling Stones would sound like…

The Big Wedding

Lionsgate Films

Rated R for profanity, sexuality and brief nudity.

A-List Cast Can’t Save Atrocious Adaptation Of French Farce

This picture is such a wholesale disaster that it’s hard to decide where to start in critiquing it. I could talk about how it is just…

Zach Stone Is Gonna Be Famous

Thursday, 10:30 p.m. (MTV)

Viral-video star Bo Burnham is well cast as a would-be viral-video star in Zach Stone Is Gonna Be Famous. He plays Zach Stone, a motormouth high school dork obsessed with his post-graduation plan: making a reality show about his…

Men are qualified for civil liberties in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their appetites: in proportion as their love of justice is above their rapacity.
—Edmund Burke

You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that…