When people think of the great bands of the 1960s, there are a few that nearly always come to mind. The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Kinks, the Beach boys … And there are others remembered mostly for a few catchy hit records. The Four Seasons, Jan and Dean, Gary Lewis and the Playboys … …
I’m pretty sure it was the spring of 1974, and I think it was a Sunday. I had two tickets to see a concert at Capital Centre. It was John Denver, and it was a show both my girlfriend and I had been looking forward to. We saw a lot of good concerts that year …
E pluribus whatum? It’s not like we were ever all happy to be part of the same country. The colonies were settled by at least two different types of people, the Puritans in New England and Anglicans in the southern colonies who had no problem at all with chattel slavery. Oh, neither group had a …
Let me start by saying this isn’t meant to be negative about Christine Ebersole. It isn’t really even about her. I’ve seen her as a recurring guest star in several television shows I enjoy — as President Dalton’s wife in “Madam Secretary” and as Eddie’s mother on “Blue Bloods.” Pleasant enough, but without the star …
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You want irony? Boy, do we have irony. Remember Dick Cheney? That’s right, the guy who truly believed that torturing enemy prisoners was a good thing for us to do in fighting the War on Terror. The guy who shot an old man in the face on a hunting trip and then got the victim …
“It’s not for man to interfere in the ways of God.” If you’re a fan of 1950s mad scientist movies, you’ve heard some variations of that line. This particular one was spoken by a police detective at the end of “I Was a Teenage Werewolf,” the movie that essentially started Michael Landon’s career. It was …
Imagine a movie with Henry Fonda, Gregory Peck, John Wayne AND Spencer tracy. In 1962, that was practically an all-star team of Hollywood legends, and with Hollywood in the middle of a run of big-budget epics, this was one about the winning of the West. In fact, that was essentially its title — “How the …
As more and more states legalize sports gambling, it’s fairly apparent we have gone pretty far down the rabbit hole. So far, in fact, we’re probably never climbing out. Our grandparents’ generation, in my case the generation that fought World War I, would never recognize us, and that isn’t really a good thing. One of …
If you read Article 1 of the U.S. Constitution, you’ll see no mention of a filibuster to prevent the Senate from voting. The Senate was seen as a great legislative body dating back to the Roman Senate, and was seen as the place where great men would give proper time and consideration to the issues …
Baseball is a very strange game in one respect. It’s the only one of the team sports in which people argue vehemently that the best players from 100 years ago were actually better than the best players of the modern era. Certainly not American football, where as recently as the mid 1960s, there was only …
