Tonight’s Grammys are to feature a tribute to Whitney Houston and a comeback-from-surgery performance by heavily-favored multiple nominee Adele. We’ll be watching closely to see if the British chanteuse can claim Record, Song, and Album of the Year–or if other big nominees like Bon Iver (for the song “Holocene”) and Foo Fighters (for the album Read More
But would Bruce come? The question echoed, soft but insistent, on the evening of Friday, Sept. 18, in a converted yoga studio on the boardwalk in Asbury Park, N.J. The rock photographer Danny Clinch was celebrating the opening of “Be True,” his first single-subject exhibit: Bruce Springsteen, in his natural habitat. Several hundred people had Read More
The New York Post: According to the Post, “Arthur Kelly, 45, said his wife, Ann — a flame-haired registered nurse — was carrying on an affair with ‘one Bruce Springsteen, who resides in Rumson, New Jersey, and Colts Neck, New Jersey, at various times and places too numerous to mention.’” The quote is from papers filed Read More
One measure of the new Washington trendiness, at least for inauguration week, has been the number of celebrities now making reservations at places like Café Milano.
Another barometer may be the number of A-Listers who couldn’t get into a D.C. house party.
On Saturday night, Maureen Dowd threw a rager at her Georgetown townhouse Read More
Last week, members of President-elect Barack Obama’s Inaugural Committee announced that they had chosen HBO to televise the opening ceremony of the inauguration, which will take place at the Lincoln Memorial on Sunday, Jan. 18, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Today, HBO announced its lineup for the ceremony—dubbed "We Are One: The Read More
This week’s issue of Rolling Stone has a piece detailing the making of Bruce Springsteen’s forthcoming album, Working on a Dream, due out Jan. 27 on Columbia Records. Today, the magazine’s Rock & Roll Daily blog wonders what Mr. Springsteen’s performance during this year’s Super Bowl halftime show on Feb. 1, Read More
Every year on October 31, in a faraway land called Central Jersey, in a wealthy little seaside village called Rumson, there is a big castle with a grand display of spooky masqued characters and opulent Halloween decorations that children from all over the land flock to while begging the town elders for tricks or treats. Read More
The Super Bowl half-time show seems like it was made for big, loud, fist-pumping rock ‘n’ roll anthems. In recent years, U2, the Rolling Stones, Prince and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers have fit this bill quite well. But this coming year’s entertainment might just top them all. The wires are reporting that Bruce Springsteen Read More
It started a couple of weeks ago, with the unlikeliest of progenitors: The Boss.
Bruce Springsteen dedicated a live rendition of his hit "Born In The U.S.A." to Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps. Everybody cheered, even though that song isn’t really a "go America!" kind of song at heart, and after all these years of defending Read More
Of course, the Yankees will try to upstage Billy Joel’s final farewell to Shea. The New York Daily News is reporting that George Steinbrenner and son Hank want either the Boss or Paul McCartney to bring the stadium down in November. Sources close to both performers aren’t aware of any negotiations. But Steinbrenner is Read More
