You heard her before you saw her. After a greasy fatback funk by her crack back-up band, that scratchy pained voice permeated the room to the point where patrons at The Musikfest Café in Bethlehem, PA, sat up in their seats, stopped chewing and leaned forward. The entrance was…

Our government has functioned fairly well with the two major parties, the Democrats and the Republicans, coming at issues from different sides and reaching solutions based on compromise and a desire to do what’s best for the country. In these times of tremendous problems and issues that will decide whether…

The following was sent to the N.J. governor’s office the morning of February 29, 2012, 11 days after Chris Christie vetoed the New Jersey legislature’s bill to legalize same-sex marriage in a mostly progressive state, which already recognizes civil unions, and whose majority of citizens support the referendum.

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Spring Training started on Friday and I must say that it feels great to have baseball beginning later this month. In just three short weeks, the regular season will be underway and we can finally have something to look forward to watching on a daily basis. It doesn’t seem…

Joining the ranks of any musical genre is a tough thing to do. Pop, rock, dance, jazz, or country, there are always certain criterion that separate the wheat from the chaff. My point is, even in genres that have cookie cutter rules, achievers must exude something special that sets…

On the federal level, the Republicans have been uncooperative, obstructionist, and more interested in scoring ideological and political points than in actually governing and doing what’s right and expedient for the country. They have cared more about their own political careers and their party than the fact that their decisions…

Since I am the only reporter willing to go on record as to the extent of the Republican National Committee Chairman’s increasingly alarming drinking problem, it is also incumbent on this space to place it in context with the queer developments surrounding its fallout. By all accounts and clearly evident…

So after everybody’s favorite Who album, Who’s Next, in 1971, Pete Townshend set upon one-upping my favorite Who album (their fourth), 1969’s Tommy.  Tommy (along with Arthur by The Kinks) laid the rock-opera groundwork. Townshend’s mission was to improve upon and expand the concept. Thus, Quadrophenia, the 1973 masterwork…

We all know his story by now—Jeremy Lin, the first Asian-American of Chinese/Taiwanese descent in NBA history, has been putting on a clinic since being given the opportunity. After getting inserted into the Knicks’ rotation on Feb. 4 against the Nets, Lin has broken a slew of records, gained…

Usually whenever I think of acid, I think about some bubbling liquid that Dr. No used to dispose of his bumbling underlings or something that my friends used to take before a Black Sabbath concert in the late ‘70s. However, the band Acid is a completely different concoction. Eating…