OTHER BLOOMERS & SHAKERS: Oh, Fug: The World’s Oldest Rock Star

by Nicole Wolverton

Tuli Kupferberg once proclaimed himself the world’s oldest rock star. He was 42 when he and poet Ed Sanders founded The Fugs in 1964. Continue reading →

EXPERIENCE REQUIRED: The Middle of the Road

by Lisa Peet

It’s so much easier to laugh about the horror of middle of the road as a condition, not a place. Not the fact that I now have more years under my belt than I have left, but the way those years have softened me, worn down those exhilaratingly sharp angles on all of us. How, when we went to see Patti Smith a few years ago, the audience was wall-to-wall fleece and crocs. Continue reading →