I don't know how people really come up with definitive Top 10 album lists. But everyone loves them. Even the AARP has one! I listen to a ton of music, at almost every waking moment, and unless you are dedicated strictly to listening to new...
Author: Erik Loomis
Above: People who Fred Hiatt wishes would go away Fred Hiatt, who has no problem hiring 312 conservatives who all say the same thing, has fired Harold Meyerson, one of.
In the latter part of her career, the pioneering oral historian Alice Fry started a definitive biography of Paul's life up to the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. When she.
We all knew George Lucas sold out, but who knew it was to the white slavery racket: In an interview with Charlie Rose, George Lucas spoke about everything from his.
This really should just be labelled #Belgium: Soldiers and police officers in Brussels held an orgy while the city was in lockdown over fears of a Paris-style attack by Islamist.
The Library of Congress named this year's National Film Registry selections today. As usual, it combined some big-budget movies people love even if they aren't really that good (Top Gun? Ghostbusters?) with some classics (Winchester '73 and Imitation of Life) and then some real treasures...
On December 21, the National Labor Relations Board ruled that Allegheny Technologies committed a labor violation when it locked out workers at steel plants across the country back in August..
Yesterday, in a different forum, our valued commenter Bijan Parsia complained about Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States. Basically, his complaint, if I may summarize, is that.
In the 1970s, James Brown and Porter Wagoner became friends. Wagoner was of course a major player in country music and so he managed to schedule the Godfather of Soul in the nation's least friendly venue to his kind of music, the Grand Ole Opry....
The twenty essays that make up Eating Asian America demonstrate both the multiple approaches to food studies in an era where that field has exploded and how food is a.
This blog has been sadly free from posts stating my aesthetic preferences for at least a month. Sorry about that. Despite the vodka, you'd think I would like the Bloody.