Opinion
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Insert Foot: Can Steven Tyler’s voice really be silenced?
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…
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Insert Foot: ‘The Acolyte’ gives Carrie-Anne Moss a raw deal
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…
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Insert Foot: Is this the end for Jennifer Lopez?
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…
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Insert Foot: Here come the AI dead guy collaborations
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…
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Insert Foot: ‘Kintsukuroi’ explores shameful chapter in U.S. history not taught in schools
“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:…
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INSERT FOOT: Pay attention to the Toomaj Salehi death sentence in Iran
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…
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Insert Foot: Caitlin Clark, WNBA seem underpaid, but that will change
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…
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Insert Foot: It’s all been said, but Kurt Cobain worth remembering after 30 years
Kurt Cobain of Nirvana. Photo: WireImage. Kurt Cobain died 30 years ago this week. This is where you expect me to say something about how time flies and not believing it could be 30 years already. But it seems about right. All the change the world has seen since…
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Insert Foot: Her feelings are legitimate but Lizzo did sign up for this shit
Original photo: Lizzo at the the 65th Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on Feb. 5, 2023. Photo courtesy The Recording Academy. Lizzo is upset. That’s fine and normal and human and everything. The singer got on social media, which is usually a bad idea when you’re having an emotional…
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Insert Foot: Why we need ‘Masters of the Air’
Insert Foot getting misty-eyed over “Masters of the Air.” I finished “Masters of the Air” last week and need to get a few things out of the way. Yes, it’s schmaltzy. No, the real flyers in the “Bloody Hundredth” didn’t look anything like Austin Butler. Especially Major Gale “Buck”…
