08/02/2008
You can't make this stuff up (in books)
I'm rarely an impulse shopper. Even though my role as househusband puts me in the check-out line at the Super Stop & Shop every other day, I manage to resist the siren call of the many magazines with the inside scoop on Britney, Tom Cruise, and ... Read More
07/01/2008
Jeff Kisseloff's Oral History of the 60's (in books)
Studs Terkel is in his 90's. Let us all hoist a dry martini in his honor. While Terkel's produced a dozen or more stunning books of oral history, it's unlikely he'll be doing many more. It behooves us to see where the next oral historians are co ... Read More
03/10/2008
The Great Black Way by R.J. Smith (in books)
If I wasn't still somewhat disabled by the flu, I'd make this a rousing review of a great book I took out of the library when I got bored with watching the Netflix streams. I'm talking about The Great Black Way: L.A. in the 1940's and the Lost A ... Read More