Archive

Last seven posts

Self-explanatory.

#popculture84: Whose House? Run-DMC Debuts, Straight Outta Hollis

#popculture27: “Sunrise” and the Rise of German Expressionism in Film

#popculture27: The Gershwins Make the Musical “Funny Face,” Starring Fred & Adele Astaire

#popculture27: W. Somerset Maugham Writes His Play “The Letter”

#popculture27: Louis Armstrong Turns His Hot Five Into a Hot Seven

#popculture27: Helen Wills Moody Dominates the Tennis World, Inspires Art

#popculture27: Walt Disney Creates Oswald the Lucky Rabbit

New York City

It’s where I’m from. It shaped who I am and how I see the world.

#popculture84: Whose House? Run-DMC Debuts, Straight Outta Hollis

#popculture55: “Auntie Mame,” Marion Tanner and 1920s Greenwich Village

#popculture55: Singer Marian Anderson Plays the Metropolitan Opera

The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Lighting Ties In With the Center’s Development

191 St, the MTA’s Deepest Station, is Near Manhattan’s Highest Natural Point

Music

Mostly rock ‘n’ roll, but other genres too, and not just the musicians.

#popculture84: Whose House? Run-DMC Debuts, Straight Outta Hollis

#popculture27: The Gershwins Make the Musical “Funny Face,” Starring Fred & Adele Astaire

#popculture27: Louis Armstrong Turns His Hot Five Into a Hot Seven

#popculture55: B-Side Single “Sixteen Tons” Turns Coal Into Gold

#popculture55: Singer Marian Anderson Plays the Metropolitan Opera

Books and Writing

Writing, my own and that of others, is the reason this blog exists.

#popculture27: W. Somerset Maugham Writes His Play “The Letter”

BRW: Behind the Blind 7

#popculture55: “Auntie Mame,” Marion Tanner and 1920s Greenwich Village

#popculture55: EC Comics’ “Mad” Becomes a Magazine

BRW: Behind the Blind 6

Movies and TV

What I blogged about for ten years before I started BRW.  I still feel a connection to it.

#popculture27: “Sunrise” and the Rise of German Expressionism in Film

#popculture27: Walt Disney Creates Oswald the Lucky Rabbit

#popculture55: Atomic Supermen Love Ed Wood’s “Bride of the Monster;” Other Audiences, Not So Much

#popculture55: Jim Henson and Kermit the Frog Make Their TV Debut With “Sam and Friends”

28 Street Was the Scene of a Heist in “The Taking of Pelham 123,” with Hector Elizondo

Childhood 

Everybody had one. Didn’t you?

#popculture27: Walt Disney Creates Oswald the Lucky Rabbit

#popculture55: EC Comics’ “Mad” Becomes a Magazine

#popculture55: Jim Henson and Kermit the Frog Make Their TV Debut With “Sam and Friends”

Five TEERRRRIIFFIICCC Traits of Spiders Learned From “Charlotte’s Web”

The Real Dorothy From “The Wizard of Oz” Was Only Five Months Old

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