I have a long and intense history with the music of Burt Bacharach and Hal David. Burt & Angie Dickinson are still my illusionary romant...

A piece about the grand opening of the Ellis Hotel in Atlanta introduced to me the 1946 Winecoff Hotel fire tragedy. This introduced me to...

B ob Barker filmed his last Price is Right , but there’s a time delay between his retirement and regularly scheduled programming. June 6t...

As Bob Barker's retirement is just days away, I've been wallowing in nostalgic television research, which naturally brought Charles ...

I’ve finished reading the final issue of Premiere magazine. Upon hearing it was laid to rest , my first reaction was, “Hey, I paid for a ...

VIDEO "Recent Linear Landscapes" by Finn's Motel The astronaut is Thomas Crone . The Indian is me. The clown is Joe Thebeau, ...

A new record from the New York Dolls is a dicey proposition. 3/5 of the original band are dead, and what they spawned has been so diluted...

The Bangles House of Blues, Chicago, 7.8.06 A group of 8 of us made a road trip from St. Louis to Chicago to see The Bangles. Considering th...

The culmination of this journey brings Marilyn to my house. Demetrie Kabbaz's exhibit of Marilyn Monroe paintings at the Barton Street...

Yeah! is the most appropriate album title since Never Mind the Bollocks Here’s the Sex Pistols . While the Pistols’ made a declarative st...

Much like calculus, yard work or NASCAR, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is unimportant to me, so I only just now got around to watching ...

The current issue of Arch City Chronicles features a piece I did on Demetrie Kabbaz, the man behind the mysterious Marilyn Shrine. It was...