The story was not apocryphal. Van Halen really did demand that there be no brown M&Ms backstage at their shows. But the intent wasn’t serious. They added that clause because they were curious if anyone ever read that far in their contract. That’s gotta be what the California Reparations Task Force did when it included eliminating “interest on past-due child support, as well as any back child support debt for Black residents of the state,” in its 1,100-page final report.Read More