Sammy Hagar, Joe Satriani, Michael Anthony and Jason Bonham perform at Toyota Pavilion in Concord, Calif. on Aug 17, 2024. CONCORD, Calif. — Rumors swirled the past year or two, and the Van Halen camp couldn’t agree on how to pay tribute to a generation’s greatest rock guitarist. Sammy…

Foo Fighters perform at Toyota Pavilion in Concord, Calif. on Aug 13, 2024. CONCORD, Calif. — Rarely does a skinny middle-aged man with long hair get away with approaching a crowd of more than 12,000 people, point their way and promise he and his five buddies are going to…

Aerosmith performs at Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia on Sept. 2, 2023. Another pillar of American rock and roll got worn out and collapsed this week, wobbling the foundation and making us wonder how to replace it. Insert Foot’s Tony Hicks. But first, let’s recognize more than a half…

Insert Foot vs. “Star Wars: The Acolyte” Like most of the “Star Wars” nerd nation with nothing better to do in middle age, I watched the first couple episodes of “The Acolyte” last weekend. Shockingly …  I have thoughts for Disney. The first is, “Should Disney make a series…

Insert Foot vs. Jennifer Lopez Jennifer Lopez canceled her summer tour last week because the most career-driven human being who’s ever inhabited Planet Earth has decided she suddenly needs to spend more time with her family. C’mon … family? Really? Entertainers and failing politicians need to come up with…

Bon Jovi, “Forever.” I can’t fight the Bon Jovi thing anymore. I tried for years. I scoffed at the positivity. I hated the constant perfect smile as Jon Bon Jovi drove all the women I wanted to like me into selling their souls to him. He was never a…

Steve Marriott of Humble Pie performs at The Miami Baseball Stadium in Miami on Feb. 2,1974. Photo by Rick Diamond/Getty Images. AI is going to kill us. You, me … your goldfish. Everyone and everything. But not before ruining everything, anyway. Rendering: Adam Pardee/STAFF. I’ve been downplaying this AI…

“Kintsukuroi” film art. My 15-year-old daughter and I went to the San Francisco premiere of “Kintsukuroi” last weekend. It’s an independent film from director Kerwin Berk following members of the San Francisco Japanese American community the government rounded up and forced into internment camps during World War II. Rendering:…

A woman holds the portrait of Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi, accused of “corruption on Earth” during the demonstration against Iranian repression in Lyon, France on Jan. 8, 2023. Photo by Robert Deyrail/Gamma-Rapho. I’m more confused than usual this week, and not just by people making six-point turnarounds to back…

Rendering: Adam Pardee/STAFF. The social media collective lost its mind this week over the new salary of basketball star Caitlin Clark, after she was drafted No. 1 by the WNBA’s Indiana Fever on Monday. It wasn’t wrong in spirit. But it lacked perspective. The screaming from my favorite wing…