By Randall Roberts
You don't need a half-wit music critic to tell you it's been a
remarkable year for America, one historians will be discussing and
researching for centuries to come. War, financial collapse, politics,
technology: All have been dinner-table topics for many Americans.
Racial barriers in 2008 were demolished by a Midwestern black man, and
gender barriers were hurdled by an Arkansan and an Alaskan.Democracy
has a few awesome new dance moves rolling into the Obama presidency,
and i
So we'll have more American Idol in Phoenix coverage for you later, but I couldn't resist putting up a quick post on Scott MacIntyre, the visually impaired singer from Scottsdale who's about to win America's heart. MacIntyre is, indeed, gifted, and he and his family are one of the most charming interviews I've ever done. Yes, he's just as nice in person as he was on TV.The East Valley Tribune, who I wrote the story for back in May, took it down as part of their recent redesign, but I managed to
We've been searching for more on Scott MacIntyre, the visually-impaired Scottsdale singer who stole the show on American Idol tonight and are turning up lots of interesting stuff on him.
Though The Arizona Republic has set up an "Idol Central" they don't really have anything Phoenix-oriented, and, in fact, haven't even made their previous MacIntyre stories available outside their paid archive. Since we know people out there are looking for the information, here's what we learned by giving the
