Two days after the Super bowl (i.e., doing our laundry to a wistful mix of Cat Power to drown out the sound of the Super Bowl), those who care about athletics are still inserting themselves into everything: A bevy of professional athletes congregates at the Grand Hyatt for the 29th Annual Thurman Munson Awards Dinner, which benefits children and ...

Perhaps it's just me, laid low by the onslaught of autumn, but the recommendations for last week's memory theme felt unusually dispiriting. Even when a song's lyrics recalled happy times, it was chiefly because they had passed, or compared unfavourably with the present. I got to the point where a lovely, uplifting song like Dean Martin's ...