Peter Thiel’s high school classmates voted him Most Likely to Succeed. Good call, kids – at least on the face of it. Assuming mid-80’s San Matteo youth would have defined success as making scads of dough, their boy Theil (pronounced like the greenish color) has checked that box several billion times. But if they reconnected with him via PayPal or…
Thank you, (YOUR CITY HERE)!
You know how a big book is sometimes described as a doorstop? Well Steve Waksman’s Live Music in America is like a goddamn cinderblock. At 570 pages – plus another hundo of Notes and Index – even in paperback it’s legit hard to hold up but worth it for music nerds. If you love going to concerts and wonder how…
Beach Reads: R.E.L.A.X.
Break time! Proud to bring you my 7th annual report on non-business book recommendations. And people, when I tell you these six selections are all outstanding, that any are worthy of your precious downtime in a hammock or on a raft, sprawled out on a lakeside deck or in a rusty ol’ beach chair, I mean it. In order of…
All in the Family Business
“I don’t care,” Sumner Redstone once said when questioned about his abysmal treatment of people. “I’m going to hell anyway.” The media mogul, who would’ve turned 100 last month but alas has been bunking with Satan for going on three years now, was a complicated figure for sure. As we learn in Unscripted by James B. Stewart and Rachel Abrams,…
Now You See Me…
In retrospect, surely Don Lemon appreciates the fortunate timing of his inevitable dismissal by CNN. That his news broke the very same hour we learned that the repugnant Tucker Carlson had been axed by Fox News may as well have been masterminded by his PR firm. On perhaps any other day, the buzz would have been that Lemon’s misogyny finally…