A short list of caustic aphorisms inspired by Ambrose Bierce (pictured), who wrote the first Devil’s Dictionary (1911). British Invasion ...

Roughly every four weeks, or about every twenty-eight days, a full moon rises, which normally means there are twelve full moons a year. But ...

So asks the singer of this venerable Frank Loesser tune, covered many times over the years, but first recorded by Kay Kyser and His Orchest...

There is a famous quotation attributed to Albert Schweitzer, “There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.” If y...

There’s an old rule of thumb in the film business, “Never take your name off a film.” The reason behind this adage is simple: If the film tu...

On this day in 1975, Ted Nugent—currently on the Board of Directors of the National Rifle Association (NRA)—was threatened by a gun while pl...

Music critics have observed, correctly I think, that the most successful pop songs have always been sentimental. For an illustration of this...

“The green grass grows all around” is the title of a well-known children’s song, and in fact as a declarative utterance the lyric is quite t...

According to ElvisNews.com , John Carpenter’s 1979 Emmy-nominated biopic, Elvis , with Kurt Russell playing Elvis Presley, is scheduled for ...

Hollywood actress Jennifer Jones (born Phylis Lee Isley), who won an Academy Award for her performance as saint-to-be Bernadette in The Song...

Recent releases such as WALL-E (2008), Terminator Salvation (2009), and 9 (2009) reveal that the imagination of disaster is a robust moti...

I’ve hardly done an exhaustive study, but I suspect that virtually every major popular singer or band has made a Christmas album, or at the ...