As most, if not all, of you know by now, Robin Williams died today. The photo at left, by Photographer’s Mate Airman Milosz Reterski (Navy NewsStand) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons, was taken while he was “entertain[ing] the crew of USS Enterpr…
(via Self-Absorbed Boomer)
When I use this phase “The Secret History of Rock’n’Roll,” I am not talking about hushed conspiracies, or Masonic…
August 11, 2014As children, we are awed and entertained by dinosaurs because they have a scale and size incomprehensible to us,…
August 8, 2014Dear Layne: Most of my personal myth seems to refer to events that took place in the early 1980s. …
August 7, 2014Novelist and Brooklyn Heights resident Elizabeth Gaffney was at the Brooklyn Historical Society yesterday evening to read from her second novel, When the World Was Young, on the date of its publication by Random House. She read two segments of the novel. The first told how a physician forced to give up her career because […]
(via Brooklyn Heights Blog)
There are some artists who announce themselves so forcefully, so brightly, with such power and grace; at these moments,…
August 6, 2014Sometimes – so very rarely – a piece of music journalism is exactly right; it reveals something new about…
August 5, 2014Born of punk rock’s rough and red womb, weaned at the rubbery leatherette teat of punk rock, wiped and…
August 4, 2014Call me benighted. Not in my secondary schooling, at a New England prep school that had recently gone co-ed,…
August 1, 2014MTV is 33 years old today. If you’re under 30, you likely have no identification of that brand name…
August 1, 2014