ABOVE: Follows here.

BELOW: Keep reading for Susan Collins threatening marriage equality over hurt feelings, Republicans cheering themselves for screwing veterans, Alito's Euro victory lap and more ...

Mags thanking fans for support as @aha_com returned to Radio City Music Hall after 36 years. pic.twitter.com/A0vPm6obm9

— Matthew Rettenmund (@mattrett) April 13, 2022

I spent Tuesday night seeing a-ha for the third time — following their 1986 and 2010 tours. Nice spread to really experience artists as they change and grow.

My 2010 Review of a-ha!

It was great fun, though I can barely enjoy concerts without my late, great point-and-shoot camera!

My stage-door footage:

Love with Paul Shaffer (Images by Matthew Rettenmund)

The concept of a musical performance being magical is a cliché, but there is something otherworldly about a Darlene Love concert.

Her pipes are transcendent, she channels gospel as if calling the angels and she looks like no 80-year-old woman you've ever seen, challenging doubts about man's ability to time-travel. For all the world, it feels like the '60s when Love channels them, making an evening with her feel like witnessing a link to the past, to how music sounded, was played, was sung.

And yet she is very much in the now, enjoying herself and enjoying touching you with her blessed instrument.

ABOVE: I've never seen a stool in a locker room before. Perhaps a rim seat would be handier.

BELOW: Keep reading for a sexy gay rom-com, Bloomberg scarfing down something big and gay, the queen who fucked your dad, Vanessa Bryant speaks and more ...

ABOVE: I always appreciate an open-drawers policy.

BELOW: Keep reading for a naked leading man, Melania Trump getting her sorry ass booed and more ...

Fan reports from San Francisco have been universally positive for Madonna, whose Madame X Tour is, I'm tellin' ya, a great work of art. Wish she'd do it on Broadway and get a special Tony for it — it's that good.

Check out this rave from Datebook as you watch her work on her, er, vocal cords. Choice cut:

ABOVE: Orlando Bloom is now at the age where he is Bryan Cranston when he takes a selfie from a low angle — and I am good with that.

BELOW: Keep reading for Gus Kenworthy's 1984-play, Giuliani's off-the-rails admission, Ed Buck's meth-faced court date and more ...

Cameras & phones were banned, but that's Madonna singing to ME. (Image by J.V.)

Look, it's 2:50 a.m., so don't expect genius from me. SPOILERS below, including the complete set list!