Paul T. Bradley

You don’t have to be a special kind of science person to know that the sun and the desert are both hot and that reveling in the hot desert sun will do damage to your body. It’s barely even science at all. So, given that the sun in the desert......

There’s a synthed-up saxophone that opens Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Run Away With Me,” the leadoff single from her 2015 critical darling, Emotion. It lingers for a second or two alone in almost naked fraudulence before the heartbeat throb of a mild dance beat arrives to escort us into Jepsen’s flawless,......

Vinyl’s two-hour series premiere opened with an apocryphal New York Dolls concert followed by director Martin Scorsese's trademark protagonist voiceover. But its gospel wasn’t uttered until the halfway point. In the scene, the complicated, morally conflicted man at the show’s center, high-powered record executive Richie Finestra (a taut Bobby Cannavale)......

Just west of Death Valley, along a grimy string of semi-active mining settlements and the empty scrublands where the Navy tests explosives, right off the road, there’s a mounted bronze plaque and a dead tree. The plaque asks, “Have you found what you’re looking for?” The dead tree would just......

History’s greatest eulogies and tributes are usually written and delivered by powerful people who are humbled by the loss of someone they hold in high esteem. They are written to connect that loss to the greater mystery; they are written because the cycle of life and death has confounded them......

Tool Viejas Arena, San Diego State University Jan. 10, 2016 Better than... Driving to San Francisco on a Sunday night. If you want one word about what this current Tool tour feels like, that one word is “underwhelming.” Tool plays concerts, but not often and not in a lot of......