I haven't really seen much live music in Mexico and Oaxaca is not exactly a town where Mexicans bands play a lot. But I have watched a couple of music documentaries that we can talk about a bit to frame this post, the last Music...
Author: Erik Loomis
This is the grave of Torrie Zito. Born in 1933 in Utica, New York, Salvatore Zito grew up in an Italian-American family, in case the name wasn't clear enough on.
This is the grave of Christopher Columbus. Hoo boy...... I'm largely just going to copy from my Columbus Day labor history post from earlier this year, which lays most of.
Here's something I did not know until 5 minutes ago: At the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, American Walter Winans took the podium and waved proudly to the crowd. He had already won two Olympic medals—a gold for sharpshooting at the 1908 London Games, as well as...
This is the grave of Lyman Lemnitzer. Born in 1899 in Homedale, Pennsylvania, Lemnitzer graduated from high school there, got a West Point appointment, and finished there in 1920. He.
Starbucks employee Tim Swicord and Gailyn Berg pose for a portrait outside of a Starbucks in Springfield, Va on April 13, 2022. (Michael A. McCoy for NPR) We will see.
This is the grave of George Pettibone. Born in 1862, Pettibone was a miner. He came out of Kansas, but he eventually ended up in Idaho. He was just a working class guy. He became an activist in the Western Federation of Miners. This started...
This is the grave of John Schofield. Born in 1831 in Gerry, New York, Schofield grew up the son of a Baptist minister and missionary. The lattermeant a lot of.
The Washington Post attempted to count the number of dead Native children on the grounds of the genocidal Indian Schools. The best number it could come up with is 3,100,.
This is the grave of Oscar DePriest, as well as his wife Jessie DePriest. Born in 1871 in Florence, Alabama, DePriest grew up, like most Black kids of that time, in a family where his parents were former slaves. His mother worked as a laundress...
The big loss in music this week was that of Zakir Hussain, dead at 73. I had a few chances to see the great tabla player here and there but.
No wonder Donald Trump and Eric Adams are becoming buds. They surround themselves with the same kind of class acts: Jeffrey Maddrey, the highest-ranking officer of the New York Police.