When news broke of a leaked proposal to overturn Roe v Wade – the landmark ruling that enshrines abortion rights in the US – it didn’t take long for George Carlin’s name to start trending. The late st...
05.18.2022 Independent.co.uk and 1 sitesIn 1966, Boston’s public television station produced two groundbreaking TV shows in the same studio. One was Julia Child’s “The French Chef. ” The other was “Cooking with Joyce Chen. ” A half-century ...
05.18.2022 Washingtonpost.com+++dropcap George Carlin, who died in 2008, still has a lot to say. +++ Take May 2, the night an unprecedented Supreme Court leak indicated that after 50 years, *Roe v. Wade* was on life support. On s...
05.19.2022 Vanityfair.comThe Cold War and the contest of ideas with the Soviet Union were high on USIA’s agenda as I made plans to lead the American delegation to the 1963 Moscow Film Festival. “I’ve agreed to serve on the ju...
05.19.2022 Lithub.com and 1 sitesHBO presents a detailed, unexpectedly moving documentary on the life & times of George Carlin, comedian, wordsmith, & cynical optimist NOW STREAMING: Powered by JustWatch This review is also a story about my father. Please indulge me for a moment. My father, Eugene Todd (born 1946, died 2009), wasn’t an easy person to love. He wasn’t even an easy person to like much of the time. Perpetually angry, he used the slights and heartbreak he experienced in his life as ammunition to lob back at other pe...
05.16.2022 Thespool.net“Wonderful Wonderful Copenhagen for me. ” — Danny Kaye Bainbridge Island City Councilmember Leslie Schneider just returned for from a trip to Copenhagen. “Raised bike lanes are everywhere, ” she said ...
05.17.2022 Bainbridgereview.comI recently began working as a volunteer for History Cambridge, updating the 2011 Culinary Cambridge website written by Rain Robertson. Digging through the Cambridge Public Library’s Historic Cambridge...
05.16.2022 Cambridgeday.comWeenenk & Snel in the city of Baarn was one of the Dutch publishers that created many film star postcards, first mainly of Dutch actors in sepia and later of film stars in black and white. In 1900, Wi...
05.15.2022 Filmstarpostcards.blogspot.comYou can relive the greatest jokes and learn more about the life and controversial career of groundbreaking stand-up comedian George Carlin—who died in 2008 at age 71—in the two-night documentary Georg...
05.13.2022 Parade.comWorld’s best chamber musicians reveal their guilty pleasures! From Jon Bon Jovi’s Livin’ on a Prayer to Leonard Cohen’s iconic Hallelujah to Danny Boy, Gabriel’s Oboe, from The Mission and Ravel’s sultry love letter to all things Spanish in Habanera…...
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