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Pop, R&B, Country, Classical, Jazz, Folk: More Billboard LP Charts, Week...
Part one here.I'm 51 now, so it seemed fair to take a slice from the middle of the half-century-old chart.Pop Album Chart continued:51. Chad and Jeremy Before and Afterthe album's title track52. Joan...
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Recent television in some of the less traveled pathways...
The Man in the High Castle (Amazon)Midtown (TuffTV broadcast/Amazon streaming)Everyone's Crazy But Us (Funny or Die/YouTube streaming)The Hotwives of Atlanta (Hulu)No, You Shut Up! (Fusion...
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1965: the short fiction annuals (and their dramatic cousin)
The Best American Short Stories 1965 edited by Martha Foley and David Burnett The 10th Annual of the Year’s Best S-F edited by Judith Merril Best Detective Stories of the Year, 20th Annual Collection...
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some jazz drummers and their bands: Saturday Music Club
Max Roach Quintet: "Crackle Hut"Joe Morello Quintet: "I've Got the World on a String"; "Have You Met Miss Jones?" Milt Jackson/John Coltrane Quintet with Connie Kay: "The Night We Called It a Day"Chico...
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Two tributaries to our overlooked cultural flow, or Toshiko Akiyoshi, Cyd...
The Fred Allen Show: 1945-1949 #23, "King for a Day" with Jack Benny (essentially the end of their looong-term "feud" running joke), was the first episode I heard as a kid, on a library cassette ca....
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FFB: THE BEST HUMOR ANNUAL edited by Louis Untermeyer and Ralph E. Shikes...
Louis Untermeyer and Ralph Shikes were among the more public intellectuals in the U.S. at the turn of the 1950s, particularly the former, who was a founding panelist on the television series What's My...
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Pulp covers approximated in what can be considered real life...
While Debbie Harry is not improbably holding her own armpits, happily...
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Howard Browne magazines at Ziff-Davis
After they finally let Howard Browne have his semi-slick Fantastic in 1952, to initial excellent sales...they also finally remade Amazing in the same image the next year...and even let Browne revive...
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Friday's "Forgotten" Books and related work: added links to the reviews (the...
As "real" Christmas happens on 6 January, nonetheless we will cooperate in our late or very early way with the current post-schism fashion of putting it near the solstice feast days, so as to not let...
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Tuesday's Overlooked Films and/or Other A/V: more links in the stocking...
The Notorious LandladyThe mountain has produced its mouse, or perhaps a giant sloth, which has swallowed several previous weeks' lists of the Tuesday's Overlooked A/V...terribly sorry for the delays,...
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December's Underappreciated Music: New Year's Underappreciated Eve Edition
The monthly assembly of undervalued and often nearly "lost" music, or simply music the blogger in question wants to remind you reader/listeners of...Happy New Year!and to 2015, I say this...Dee Dee...
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Friday's Forgotten Books for a New Year: the links to reviews, citations and...
Happy New Year, and a happy birthday to the list/roundelay originator and poobah Patti Nase aka Patricia Abbott!Below we have this week's crop of books and other literary expression deserving (and,...
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Tuesday's Overlooked Films and/or Other A/V: the links to reviews, interviews...
This week's selections of insufficiently (or sometimes not quite insufficiently) appreciated items of film, television, radio, stage, and other dramatic performing arts productions. If I've missed...
View ArticlePaul Bley, Pierre Boulez: Rest in Glory: Saturday Music Club on Wednesday in...
Paul Bley, November 10, 1932–January 3, 2016 JazzTimes obituaryPierre Boulez, March 26, 1925–January 5, 2016 Gramophone obituary
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Friday's "Forgotten" Books: new links to reviews, citations and more
Below we have this week's crop of books and other literary expression deserving (and, infrequently, not so much deserving) more attention than they are currently getting. If I've missed your or someone...
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Posts (so far)EntryPageviewsStuff I shouldn't be eating: packaged cake rollsMay 19, 2011, 9 comments5241TV notes: KCET breaks away from PBS, Tribune debut...Jan 11, 2011, 11 comments2655FFB redux:...
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Tuesday's Overlooked Films and/or Other A/V on Wednesday: more links
The RoommatesA Tale of Two SistersThe delay in this theoretically Tuesday list of links to reviews, citations, interviews and more of and about A/V media was even more pressing than usual (medical,...
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FFB: Richard S. Prather Week: SHELL SCOTT'S SEVEN SLAUGHTERS (Fawcett Gold...
Barry Ergang proposed a Prather Friday Books, and as one of the best-selling crime-fiction writers we've had so far...in the same league with Christie and MacDonald and however you want to account...
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FFM: TRIQUARTERLY #49: SCIENCE FICTION edited by Jonathan Brent, David G....
TriQuarterly #49 was meant to be another of the series of adventurous theme issues the Northwestern University-based little magazine had been publishing through the latter '70s; Elliott Anderson and...
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Friday's Forgotten Books: TEENSPELL edited by Betty M. Owen (Scholastic Book...
The Scholastic Art and Writing Awards...among the training programs for the young creative and/or intellectual aspirant, there have been worse batting averages. Actress Frances Farmer won for an essay...
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