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Peter Max died earlier this week at the age of 88. I asked my brother Howard to write about him (thank you, Howard): The 60s were colorful. They were psychedelic. They were fun and full of possibilities. Robert Indiana’s LOVE and Sister Corita Kent’s vibrant activist paintings are seared into our memory as images that represent this magical era. But perhaps more than any, Peter Max’s flat and fabulous landscapes captured the style and fervent optimism of those times. As a chi

This week's Great Song, Wrong Title number is "Gonna Make You Sweat" by C + C Music Factory. Clearly it should be called "Everybody Dance Now." Do you know the story? The great Martha Wash recorded the song as a demo and they recorded the video with another woman lipsynching to Wash's vocals. Wash went to court! Here she is spilling the tea: One more funny story. I had a VCR back in the late 80s and early 90s but it wasn't fully functional. It was a discarded rental VCR from