Ian S. Port

The Colbert Report's Greatness Arrived With Its Very First Episode

Ian S. Port
The funniest and most incisive show on television is ending this week — so let's look back at how it began. On Oct. 17, 2005, a power-suited Stephen Colbert furrowed his eyebrows and showed off highlights of his new set. Red letters above him shouted "The Colbert Report." The title......
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Neil Young and Crazy Horse — Outside Lands Festival — 8/10/12

Ian S. Port
Christopher VictorioNeil Young and Crazy Horse at the Outside Lands festival.While he's putting everything into a solo, Neil Young's face looks like his electric guitar sounds: flush with feeling, vaguely threatening, and thoroughly aged. Not old as in frail, but venerable; geologic. On the chilly, windy opening night of San......