So now there's a karaoke booth at Intercontinental Airport. According to the Houston Chronicle, travelers can choose from "hundreds of titles."We got to wondering this morning about what's in their song selections there and more to the point -- what isn't.We imagine that the management of IAH's karaoke bar had to have studied the infamous September 2001 Clear Channel memorandum of songs with "questionable" lyrics, some of which concerned aerial death and disaster. If they did, they would know to
Fifty years ago today - February 3, 1959 - the world lost three of its early pioneering rock and rollers in a fiery plane crash over Clear Lake, Iowa. Texan Buddy Holly, Chicano rock godfather Ritchie Valens, and Sabine Pass-born disc jockey/songwriter J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson all lay dead along with inexperienced pilot Roger Peterson in a frozen cornfield.
They were on a Midwestern tour that had already suffered scheduling difficulties and bad weather at almost every turn. Half a
Joel BernsteinThere isn't much mystery to Graham Nash.
Not that that's a bad thing at all. In fact, if you want to know how the British expat with the distinctive tenor vocals feels about anything - political and social issues, fellow musicians, his wife and children even religion - it's all right there in his songs. And in straightforward language.
Beginning with the Hollies and continuing through the revolving-door lineups of Crosby, Stills & Nash...and Crosby, Stills, Nash &am
Cinco de Mayo is a day for Americans of Mexican descent to commemorate
their rich history and heritage while at the same time trying to ignore
the legions of mouth-breathing Chron commenters clamoring for
their deportation.
And if being blamed for the H1N1 (don't call it swine) flu outbreak
wasn't enough, Mexicans have also have had to suffer the indignity of having
non-Mexican actors portraying them in the movies.5. Mel Blanc (as Speedy Gonzales)
When the Cartoon Network acquired exclusive r
Friday
Bluesman John Nemeth jams the Big Easy Slim Harpo-style for the budget-friendly price of $5.
Austin Collins, the Small Sounds and Stephen Chadwick twang it up at the Firehouse Saloon. $10.
Eclectic pop-rocker David Garza turns the Continental Club into a "Discoball World." $10.
DJs Cuba Gooding Jr., Fredster, Johnny Moon and Noshi do the Modern Touch thing at Boondocks for the low, low price of free.
Poison the Well, Madball, Terror, This Is Hell and more emote up a storm at Javajazz.
The
It seems that the stranger and weirder our world gets by the day, humanity struggles to find reasons behind all this calamity and tragedy. We try our best to find conclusions to why bad things happen, and when we can't fully fathom that the awful truth is just that, instead try to blame the influence of shadowy forces that supposedly linger in the dark.
In the past 50 years, our society turned away from accepting basic facts and has instead begun to traffic in speculation and hearsay, trumping
