MEANWHILE, THE REPLACEMENTS AND SUPERCHUNK PLAY PENN'S LANDING IN NINE DAYS:   According to a new study, we stop discovering new music a...

EGOT WATCH:   Stephen Schwartz will receive this year's Isabelle Stevenson award at the Tonys , with six nominations and no wins ( Pippi...

DESPITE ALL MY RAGE, I AM STILL JUST A RAT IN A STEEL CAGE MATCH:   Billy Corgan, not content to settle for his work in music and in cat pic...

CALIFORNIA ADVENTURE:   Lurker Racquel writes: Hi thing throwers! I am a long time lurker and I remember a while back you had some advice ...

ROCK AND ROLL, THE COLA WARS:   It's the 30th anniversary of the launch of New Coke .  Maybe the commercials should've been the firs...

ACROSS THE ATLANTIC SEA: The ThingThrowers have been gracious enough to provide reading suggestions for my mother during European trips--her...

WHAT IF MY MOM IS THE D.A.?   Okay, I'm taking one of the last seats on the Amy Schumer bandwagon, because I'm an admitted newbie, b...