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Music

• August 5 -- Bored In The U.S.A.
"Writer and performer" Bruce Springsteen pens a rather bland op-ed about his beat-Bush concert tour that could have been cobbled from DNC talking points.

• July 22 -- The Right's Latest Victim: Linda Ronstadt?
The Times engages in liberal hand-wringing over hostile audience reaction to Linda Ronstadt's in-concert tribute to Michael Moore, in an Arts story and an editorial (yes, an editorial).

• July 16 -- Ozzy Osbourne's "Shrewd" Politics: Bush = Hitler
Ben Ratliff reviews the troubled Ozzfest concert tour and notes Ozzy Osbourne's "shrewd" use of video comparing Bush to Hitler, while warily noting the "bellicose enthusiasm" of some pro-war rockers.

• July 9 -- Rapping a Pro-Israel Musician
Ben Sisario attends an unusual hip-hop show in Brooklyn featuring Israelis and Palestinians rapping against the Israeli "occupation." A Palestinian rapper who describes the Israel army as terrorists is called "blunt;" a pro-Israel rapper describes Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat as a smoker and is said to spread "incendiary nationalist imagery."

• November 17 -- Portrait of the Artist as a Young Thug
A.O. Scott reviews a documentary of Tupac Shakur and gives a posthumous makeover to the "open-hearted" and "sensitive" rapper, who died as he lived--violently--in a drive-by assault in 1996.

• November 5 -- Britney, Weird
Neil Strauss' profile of Britney Spears is a doomed attempt to imbue the flighty pop singer with significance. Describing Spears stomping out of an interview, he writes: "It was a decision that took a degree of independence, confidence and honesty, which are all mature qualities." Huh?