“Blue Note Records are designed simply to serve the uncompromising expressions of hot jazz or swing, in general. Any particular style of playing which represents an authentic way of musical feeling is genuine expression. By [more…]
Lee Miller was known as one of the most stunningly beautiful liberated women of the 20th Century. Her name often evokes the word “muse” & is closely associated with Man Ray & Paris of the [more…]
“Blue Note Records are designed simply to serve the uncompromising expressions of hot jazz or swing, in general. Any particular style of playing which represents an authentic way of musical feeling is genuine expression. By [more…]
The 20th Century produced two updated versions of Homer’s Odyssey. The first was the James Joyce novel Ulysses, which compressed Odysseus’s decade of wandering down to an arbitrary day, June 16 1904, & a single [more…]
In July 2010 I was enjoying the company of an old family friend Dan, who as a sports journo was over this side of the Pond to cover the summer events in the UK. His [more…]
On the morning of June 6th 1924, at a camp perched at 23,000 feet on an ice ledge above the East Rongbuck Glacier, & just below the lip of Mount Everest’s North Col, expedition leader [more…]
I suppose everyone has either visited, heard of it, or seen pictures of the awesome spectacle. Over the years there have been many attempts by people to go over the Falls, in barrels, balls, & [more…]
It’s the question to ponder when considering Death. Some of us will be happy to find the grass just as green as it is on this side of the divide. Some may be hoping to [more…]
In an apartment close to the Mark Hopkins Hotel in San Francisco, Dashiell Hammett wrote perhaps the best structured of all private-eye novels. The Maltese Falcon originally appeared as a five part serial in the [more…]
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