From the top: I don’t mind being wrong about Greyson Chance

From the top: I don’t mind being wrong about Greyson Chance
I don’t mind being proved wrong, especially when the truth forces me to reconsider my dearly held cynical beliefs. Read this if you’ve always wanted to see me taken down a notch. The average age of pop stars is about a decade lower than it was during my teens and maybe even lower than that — it was fairly rare for teenagers to listen to other teenagers on the radio until the late 1990s. Before …
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Digital music: Topspin prefers to avoid labels
As the buzz surrounding Google’s efforts to jump into the digital music market rose to a roar in late August, one name kept surfacing about the person who might lead it — Ian Rogers. Rogers, who once headed up Yahoo Inc.’s $ 140-million music business, has been at the forefront of digital music and came out ahead when others perished. But the 38-year-old avid skateboarder believes he’ll have more …
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Do Taxes on the Rich Deprive Society of Op-Eds, Novels, Music?
Boy did Greg Mankiw set off a firestorm with his latest column. In The New York Times, the Harvard economist and former policymaker took on the issue of the Bush tax cuts for those making over $ 250,000, which Democrats seem quite ready to let expire. He takes himself as an example (which one would think, after the last brouhaha, would have gone out of style). “First,” he says, “I have to …
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The amazing versatility of Taj Mahal
Taj Mahal remembers playing harmonica at the Whiskey a Go Go in the late 1960s with his eyes closed.
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