There was no Reliable Source column in Monday’s paper, to make way for Kennedy Center Honors coverage. We’ll be back with you shortly.
And how were the Kennedy Center Honors, you ask? Oh, you know, “alternately noisy and solemn, rousing and high-minded,” writes our colleague Paul Farhi, “a three-ring circus of American arts and culture. . . There was, as usual something, and someone, for the entire family: bluegrass, bebop, Broadway, “Out of Africa” and well-behaved choruses of “Sweet Caroline.” See profiles of all the honorees: Meryl Streep, Sonny Rollins, Neil Diamond, Yo-Yo Ma and Barbara Cook.
In other news: How we’ll miss the riveting hand gestures of Herman Cain.