SHADOW OF A DOUBT

  There's nothing worse than the end of a romance. Except for maybe war, debilitating illnesses, natural disasters, famine, molestation,...

  We experienced music in the same visceral way. Music ignited a fiery pent-up passion inside Elvis and inside me. It was an odd, embarrassi...

  Jasmine Guy was born on this day in 1962. She's best known for playing the self-absorbed Southern belle Whitley Gilbert on the late 19...

 Film and opera director Franco Zeffirelli--that's him in the above picture on the left--died the day before yesterday at the age of 96....

Writer Carson McCullers was born on this day in 1917. If you do the math, you'll note that's five days after February 1...

Oh, darling, the ice caps are melting, but what does it matter, as long as we have each other? --Kurt Vonnegut, on the possible consequences...

(I've decided to take a little break from this blog. In my absence, my good friend Marty Volare has agreed to recount for you one of his...

Stopped by The Looking-Glass Cafe, where I saw my old friend Marty Volare hunched over the bar writing something on a piece of paper, which ...