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Here are 10 favorite Christmas songs for your listening pleasure. What are...
For your Christmas Eve listening pleasure, I thought I’d share my top 10 Christmas song list. What are your favorites? 10. “Christmas in Prison,” John Prine. Kind of fun. Really good first verse, but...
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How ‘Freaks’ helped normalize people with disabilities: An excerpt from...
Nicolas Rapold has a fascinating essay in The New York Times (free link) about “Freaks,” a rarely seen 1932 horror movie directed by Tod Browning and starring a troupe of sideshow performers — people...
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Looking back — way, way back — at the life and times of Cleopatra
“The Banquet of Cleopatra,” by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1743-’44) What do you know about Cleopatra? I didn’t know much. When some people started complaining a few months ago that a Black actress was...
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Jazz at the MFA
From left: George W. Russell Jr., singer Lydia Harrell, drummer Sean Skeete, saxophonist Walter Smith III and bassist Wes Wirth. Absolutely fantastic concert Thursday evening in the MFA courtyard by...
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Heather Cox Richardson offers some optimism during a dark time in our history
Heather Cox Richardson interviews President Biden in 2022. Photo by the White House. Earlier this week I finished the audio version of Heather Cox Richardson’s new book, “Democracy Awakening: Notes on...
View ArticleHappy birthday, Keith!
Common fallacy here by Josh Marshall about Keith Richards, who turns 80 today. While it may be true that Keith can’t play like Mick Taylor, it’s also true that Taylor can’t play like Richards. Nor can...
View ArticleIt’s a Mickey Mouse kind of New Year’s Day
Happy New Year! Today is the day that a number of creative works enter the public domain — including “Steamboat Willie,” the first film starring Mickey Mouse. Enjoy! Leave a comment | Read comments
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Marc Myers takes on a McCartney landmark
My Northeastern classmate and 1970s Northeastern News stalwart Marc Myers has written a wonderful essay for The Wall Street Journal about Paul McCartney’s album “Band on the Run,” which came out 50...
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When jazz’s greatest musicians lived in Queens
Dizzy Gillespie in 1947. Photo (cc) 2010 by Ky. The best story I’m likely to read all day appears, oddly enough, in The New York Times’ Sunday real estate section. It’s about Corona, a neighborhood in...
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On this Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a reminder of the long road that is still...
Photo (cc) 2023 by Dan Kennedy My daughter, Becky, and I had intended to visit the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis last August the day after a trip to Graceland. A massive thunderstorm knocked...
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