From Tina Turner at the Sports Arena to Adam Lambert in our living rooms, critic Karla Peterson looks back on three decades of her greatest entertainment hits
Good times: Random pop-culture memoriesIn our great acoustic-music boom of 1994, the up-and-coming Jewel Kilcher was queen, the coffeehouse was king, and standout singer-songwriters like Gregory Page, Steve Poltz of the Rugburns, Lisa Sanders and Cindy Lee Berryhill made the San Diego music scene buzz with creativity that was stronger than a double espresso and sweeter than a blueberry scone the size of your head. Writing about these fine folkies was blast, even without the beans.
The low-budget tour came to a sudden end when bassist-vocalist Mark Hoppus lost his voice, but the band’s career soon roared into overdrive. When I ran into Hoppus at an MTV event the following year, he said, “I know you! You were there for the worst day of our career!” Sweet journalism dreams are made of this.He insisted he was “one of the weird kids” at Mt. Carmel High School, but in 2009, singer Adam Lambert was the toast of San Diego and perhaps the pop-culture stratosphere.
By the time he finished second to Kris Allen, Lambert had performed before a super-pumped student audience at his alma mater, been celebrated civically during “Adam Lambert Day,” and appeared on the cover of Entertainment Weekly under the headline, “The Most Exciting ‘American Idol’ Contestant in Years,” and the subhead, “And Not Just Because He Might Be Gay.
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