‘The Music Never Stops’ Review: It’s Always Show Time
Peter Shapiro watched U2’s frontman eat a salad with his bare hands and Bill Murray sweep up backstage after a Grateful Dead show.
By Dave Shiflett
Sept. 1, 2022 6:12 pm…
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Jun 9 2022
Wall Street Journal Reviews
‘Funny Business’ Review: How Great Thou, Art
Art Buchwald wrote a thrice-weekly column on D.C. absurdities. He’d bang it out in an hour, run the jokes by an assistant and then head to Sans Souci.
By Dave Shiflett
June 9…
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Jun 4 2020
Wall Street Journal review of 'Why We Drive' by Matthew Crawford
The coronavirus has parked multitudes on their sofas, where many have gone half-mad reading rants from advanced-studies graduates of the University of Twitter. Matthew Crawford’s “Why We Drive” is the perfect antidote.
Mr. Crawford, a senior fellow at the University…
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Jul 11 2019
WSJ review of Homeplace
‘Homeplace’ Review: Enticed by Twang and Sawdust
The last roadhouse in the Virginias, where Budweisers, Beatitudes and country music mingle—and a fading subculture finds a home.
By Dave Shiflett July 11, 2019 6:50 pm ETAmong the collateral calamities of…
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Apr 22 2019
Wall Street Journal Review: The Last Job
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Dave Shiflett
April 18, 2019 7:25 p.m. ET
The prospect of death separates the terminally ambitious members of our species into two distinct groups: those who compose a bucket list of offbeat things to do before they croak and…
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Feb 7 2019
Wall Street Journal article: Virginia's Confederacy of Dunces
Virginia’s Confederacy of Dunces How can we continue looking down on Arkansas and Mississippi with this sort of stuff going on Feb. 7, 2019 6:53 p.m. ET When word leaked that Gov. Ralph Northam was in hot water over a…
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Nov 20 2018
Wall Street Journal Review: Grateful and Thanks a Thousand
By Dave Shiflett Nov. 20, 2018 6:52 p.m. ET If turkeys have souls (it’s the season for generous speculation), one might expect that, in the spirit of the times, a flock of transcendent Toms will soon storm the gates of…
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Sep 28 2018
WSJ review of 'Country Music USA' and 'Country Music'
By Dave Shiflett Sept. 27, 2018 5:49 p.m. ET Given the choice between hearing a country-music crooner or a cat in a blender, many Americans might give us reason to fear for the fate of the cat. Others consider country…
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Sep 27 2018
WSJ Review of Jeff Pearlman's 'Football For A Buck'
The new NFL season has commenced with the usual hoopla, though some fans are finding new things to do on Sunday afternoon. Their disaffection isn’t just about kneeling, which is as easy to ignore as other celebrity pose-striking. The game…
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Sep 6 2018
Wall Street Journal review of Jorma Kaukonen's 'Been So Long'
Sept. 7, 2018 5:08 p.m. ET Jorma Kaukonen isn’t quite so famous as some of his musical peers, a group that includes Janis Joplin, Jerry Garcia and Jimi Hendrix. Yet unlike those eminences and many others, Mr. Kaukonen—a Rock &…
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Apr 5 2018
Weekly Standard article on Ancestor Worship
Worship Thy Ancestor . . . from a distance 2:00 AM, Apr 06, 2018 | By Dave Shiflett You can get arrested for spanking an unruly tot these days, but flogging the immortal bejesus out of once-revered ancestors can pay…
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Mar 18 2018
Weekly Standard article on the NRA
Skunk vs. Skunk The defense of the Second Amendment goes down-market 2:40 AM, MAR 16, 2018 | By DAVE SHIFLETT If someone invented a television “raver filter” there would no doubt be national jubilation—until we realized that blocking the ravers…
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