Archive

Last seven posts

Self-explanatory.

Telstar: The Satellite That Inspired a Pop Song

Five Sounds and Instruments Heard in Herbie Hancock’s Hip-Hop/Jazz Amalgam “Rockit”

BRW: Behind the Blind 4

Erma Bombeck and the House in Which She Wrote

The Musical Career of Tracey Ullman

Imogene Coca Recovered From a Car Crash to Get Tony Nod For “On the Twentieth Century”

Madeline Kahn Was an Alien Freak in “Slapstick of Another Kind,” with Jerry Lewis

New York City

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

Scrabble Was Developed in a Church Basement in Queens

Why Did the Bronx’s Freedomland Fail As An Amusement Park?

Queens’ North Beach, Co-Created By the Piano-Making King

Happyland Amusement Park Helped Bring a Touch of the Riviera to Staten Island

Rockaway’s Playland, First Owned By a Roller Coaster Designer

Music

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

Telstar: The Satellite That Inspired a Pop Song

Five Sounds and Instruments Heard in Herbie Hancock’s Hip-Hop/Jazz Amalgam “Rockit”

The Musical Career of Tracey Ullman

Jocko Henderson Taught Students Through Rap Before Rap Took Off

The Alison Steele Method For Creating a Hit Late-Night Radio Show 

Books and Writing

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

BRW: Behind the Blind 4

Erma Bombeck and the House in Which She Wrote

BRW: Behind the Blind 3

The Macabre Fairy Tale Behind the Movie “The Red Shoes”

#HudsonValley: In Nyack, Toni Morrison Preserved African-American History With a Bench

Movies and TV

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

Madeline Kahn Was an Alien Freak in “Slapstick of Another Kind,” with Jerry Lewis

Carol Burnett Appeared in a Variety TV Series Before Starring in Her Own

The Macabre Fairy Tale Behind the Movie “The Red Shoes”

The Real Don Steele Went Hollywood in “Death Race 2000,” Co-Starring a Young Sylvester Stallone

Casey Kasem’s Vocal Talents Helped Make “Scooby-Doo” a Star of Saturday Morning 

Childhood 

Everybody had one. Didn’t you?

Five Types of Hess Toy Trucks

Mouse Trap Has Become a Life-Sized Attraction

Scrabble Was Developed in a Church Basement in Queens

The Military Connections to the Game Battleship

Tinkertoys, Lincoln Logs and Other Building Toys

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