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...those inexplicable feats of pop-culture timing that this is also the season of the feminist soap opera in prime-time TV. Cashmere Mafia on ABC and Lipstick Jungle on NBC both center on high-income, high-powered, high-style Manhattan friends who talk business and love lives over expense-account lunches. In the process they raise some of the same questions the presidential race does: Is women's success held against them? Can they be different yet equal? Can they stand by their men and get stood by in return...
...logistics. The organizers just hadn't reckoned with the outpouring of exuberance of overseas Americans given an opportunity to cast off the taint of the Bush years. Democrats Abroad U.K. had booked Porchester Hall, a grand Victorian edifice built for public functions, which ought to have been roomy enough. Pop star Elton John celebrated his birthday there with a few hundred of his closest friends in 1994, and the complex has regularly accommodated large-scale awards ceremonies and posh parties. The Dems had arranged volunteers to man the registration desks, and more to serve refreshments. (Even the press were treated...
Died The Monkees' Daydream Believer is one of pop's most recognizable hits. John Stewart, the former Kingston Trio member who wrote it, may not have been as well known, but he was a cult figure among peers. Stewart made 40 solo albums, traveled as a performer with Robert Kennedy's 1968 campaign and wrote hits for Joan Baez, Rosanne Cash and others. His masterpiece, though, was a collection of narrative gems inspired by trips around the country with his father. Among the 200 best albums of all time, according to Rolling Stone, 1969's California Bloodlines helped define...
...sings with remarkable power and sinew in another song, and it's not a boast, though her put-downs of the men who would take advantage of her certainly are. Throughout, she's mouthy, funny, sultry and quite possibly crazy, yet unlike Britney Spears or a dozen other pop idiot savants, Winehouse not only knows who she is but is able to express it in a way that's often beautiful and meaningful to others. Traditionally, we call that...
...last time pop music was dealt this card, it went by the name Kurt Cobain, another lower-middle-class kid for whom being messed up was a source of creativity and, eventually, the killer of it too. Cobain told his few high school friends that he had "suicide genes," and there's a dangerous echo of that infatuation with doom in Winehouse's fetish for ill-fated soul singers. No matter how true her music feels, it's hard to tell the difference between pain and performance and impossible to guess how approval reinforces her self-perception...