As a Historic Event, Sunday’s We Are One concert on the Mall was often stirring and inspiring. But as a show? As music? Pretty much the same, actually. These all-star Frankenstein line-ups, usually the stuff of benefit gigs and 20th century Super Bowl halftime shows, are often train-wrecks. But We Are One reflected the same rare mixture of persuasion and efficiency that Team Obama showed during the presidential campaign. The talent fell into line. None…

Hope for a last minute hail mary. After the highs and lows of almost getting an installment of Live Earth in our town, then having Congress stomp all over it, Al Gore’s figured things out in the final hour and is adding the District to the globe-crossing concert. Live Earth will take place tomorrow, from 9 locations around the world. The purpose of the massive undertaking is to raise worldwide awareness of climate change. Musical…