The music industry isn’t exactly known for taking risks.

Like “jumbo shrimp” or “low-cost health care,” reality TV is one of the great oxymorons.

Celebrity news used to be the fun gossip for people trying to escape the real world, yet every day now a new scandal feeds us a little dose of hopelessness before breakfast.

I wrote something about soul food becoming financially fancy a couple years ago, after an experience at a popular “southern” restaurant in the Atlanta area that cost much more than what seemed reasonable.

As our modern day gig economy turns everyone’s home into a BnB and everyone’s car into a cab, there’s also a new breed of traveler emerging who refuses to accept less than the best: the points churner.