*** From 1965 to 1968, The Mamas and The Papas, a pop singing group, turned folk-rock into the music of the barely-pre-psychedelic counterculture. With hit songs like “Go Where You Wanna Go,” “Monday, Monday,” and the super-iconic “California Dreaming,”...
Editor’s Note: Sheila Weller wrote this beautiful assessment of Joni Mitchell’s legacy when she was celebrated by the Grammy’s in 2022. Her appraisal is more true than ever, after her touching performance at last Sunday’s Grammy’s, which...
“Saying `Three thousand people died sounds so impersonal and distant,'” said the rabbi who officiated at the first memorial service, shortly after September 11, 2001. It was held at a stadium; I avidly watched it on TV. “Rather,” he went on, “I think...
Is there a woman who was alive in the 1970s who didn’t want to be like Mary Tyler Moore, a.k.a. Mary Richards, the associate producer of Minneapolis’s WJM-TV’s six o’clock news. Mary Richards held the whole office together, even though she called her boss, the...
Right after Susanna Hoffs received her March 27th rave review from The New York Times for her debut novel This Bird Has Flown (“smart, ferocious rockstar redemption romance you didn’t know you needed . . . a total knockout”) she was, unsurprisingly, “slammed” with...
