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There is a recurring character in The Simpsons, a B-list actor who shows up in industrial and educational films with some variation of this greeting: “Hello. I’m Troy McClure. You may remember me from such films as Andre the Giant, We Hardly Knew Ye and Firecrackers: The Silent Killer.” He’s…

Punk music spontaneously combusted mid-’70s when London’s Sex Pistols and New York’s Ramones gave their first concerts and dropped debut albums within weeks of one another. Most Europeans point to the Pistols as punk’s progenitor, while Americans (and especially New Yorkers) call The Ramones…

Directed by David Frankel • Starring Will Smith, Edward Norton, Kate Winslet • Rated PG-13 • 97 min.

The sex, drugs, booze and other currencies of the rock and roll trade, often defined by excess and inhibition, were a little much for 15-year-old guitar prodigy Jonny Lang. He’d recently found international fame with Lie To Me, which topped Billboard’s New Artist chart in 1997, then found a …

Hey I heard you went to the Emerald Cup this past weekend. How was it? – Vic Arias