I was one of the people interviewed for this ABC piece on the rise in strikes this year. Greg Iwinski, a late-night TV writer, walked off the job this year amid a dramatic surge of workers going out on strike -- and he says the trend made...
Author: Erik Loomis
For our latest podcast, we were greatly honored to speak to Laura Edwards, a legal historian at Princeton, about her latest book Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and.
Wow, a huge loss to the world of comedy and to the world of weird 60s America. And of course the politics of the Smothers Brothers were all the way.
This is the grave of Ossie Schectman. Born in Queens in 1919, Oscar Schectman grew up in a Jewish immigrant family. His parents had come over from Russia. He was a very good athlete and starred in high school in both baseball and basketball. He...
This is the grave of Belle Moskowitz. Born in 1877 to German Jewish immigrants in Harlem, Belle Lindner grew up reasonably well off. Her father was a watchmaker. She attended.
This is the grave of Frank Borzage. Born in 1894 in Salt Lake City, Utah, Frank Borzaga was the son of a Italian immigrant miner and his Swiss wife. There's.
This is the grave of Sam Walton. Welp...this one should be something. Born in 1918 in Kingfisher, Oklahoma, Walton did not grow up that wealthy. His father was a poor farmer, typical of the Ozarks for that time, until he gave it up in the...
Two last shows I saw in 2023. Both were at the Columbus Theatre in Providence. The first was The Bad Plus. Oddly, I had never seen them before and I.
This is the grave of Dixie Haygood. Born in 1861 in Milledgeville, Georgia, Haygood became one of the most famous magicians of the late 19th and early 20th century. I.
As I've said many times, those who respond to the housing and homelessness crises by saying BUILD BUILD BUILD are just pushing a simplistic talking point that serves to diminish just how complex these issues are. Yes, build all you can. 100%, I completely support...
As CNN and the New York Times eat out of Chris Rufo's lap and move toward getting the president of Harvard fired for not throwing out students who care about.
It's time for something a bit more light hearted than usual. So here's this great story about how a bunch of teenagers who don't care about some old man named.