When I sat down to watch David Foster: Off the Record, I was hoping that, since the film was about a successful record producer, it was …
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Andre Agassi’s “Open”
From page one. Literally page one, paragraph three, Andre Agassi admits he hates tennis. His hatred of the sport that made him arguably one …
The Allure of Laurel Canyon
While folk music is not my favorite genre, there are plenty of Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Buffalo Springfield, Doors, Mamas and the Papas, …
Caine’s Arcade and the Power of Creativity
Six and a half years ago I started tutoring at Colorado Mountain College and one of my first students was Nidia Villalobos. She was a young …
The Last Dance
I’m a longtime basketball fan so watching a documentary miniseries about Michael Jordan and the Bulls was not a hard sell for me. That being …
Coronavirus: Observations + Realizations
In the newspaper business, you don’t write about a topic that has been incessantly covered unless there is a different angle or something …
The Ride of A Lifetime: Lessons Learned From The CEO Of Disney
In sentence one of chapter one, Robert Iger makes it clear that his book is not a memoir – but in a lot of ways it is because it chronicles …
How the Sunset Strip Shaped Rock and Roll
You know a documentary is going to be interesting when it starts with a statue of Lemmy Kilmister being erected and unveiled as a major …
Daisy Jones & The Six
When my friend Nina, who is an avid reader, told me I would love this book about a fictional 1970s rock band I have to admit that I didn’t …