The Grandstander

Earlier this month, the Sunday paper contained the news obituaries for two musical giants of the mid-twentieth century, and their passings d...

Within a twenty-four hour period over Sunday and Monday, I took in the two most hyped movies of 2023, Greta Gerwig's "Barbie" ...

Tony Bennett 1926-2022 The death earlier today of singer Tony Bennett at the age of 96 brought back a childhood memory that has been buried ...

Major League Baseball staged its annual All-Star Game last night.  The National League won 3-2, its first win in this game since 2012, but a...

Before getting into my own opinions on a couple of movies, I'd like to provide an excerpt from the recent newsletter from  Kareem Abdul-...

  "She Said" "She Said" was a movie from last year, 2022, that was sadly ignored during the Awards Season.  Directed by ...

Cynthia Weil 1940-2023 The Broadway musical "Beautiful" tells the story of singer-songwriter Carole King and her husband and lyric...