Were he alive today, this would have been the human Elvis Presley’s 75th birthday. The story is quite familiar: he was born in 1935 to paren...

According to legend, at the point when Aristotle and his students had refined their definition of “man” to a creature having the qualities o...

The weather outside is frightful—“bone-chilling,” as the saying goes, in order to suggest, I suppose, the coldness of the grave. Hence, give...

Yesterday represented the second anniversary of 60x50 . As of yesterday, I have posted 395 entries on this blog, which averages out to about...

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...