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Gaslighting Another Black Community For Fun & Profit

Scratch beneath any story in Coconut Grove and you’ll discover the issue of race lurking. We’ll get to that eventually, but this true fable — with a twist on the race issue — starts with the approval of a Wawa gas station in the City of Coral Gables. So what? Cities approve gas stations all the time. However, this approval didn’t have any public consultation with the community, nor public hearings, both of which would normally have taken place. And, that’s ...

Felix The Cat ► Saturday Morning Cartoons

Forget Mickey Mouse. The earliest cartoon I can remember is Felix The Cat, which premiered on tee vee when I was just a year old. However, Felix The Cat is a ...

Roy Head ► Monday Musical Appreciation

Roy Head — yes, that’s his real name — will always and forever be known as an entry on the list of One Hit Wonders, but what a musical hit!!! “Treat ...

Rocky & Bullwinkle ► Saturday Morning Cartoons

The dirty little secret of The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show is that the animation was outsourced to Mexico. Originally conceived as a cute little group of woodland animals that run a ...

The Weavers ► Monday Musical Appreciation

On this day in 1962 The Weavers — Ronnie Gilbert, Lee Hays, Fred Hellerman, and Pete Seeger — took a stand that almost ruined their careers. You may not have heard ...

Two of the Greatest Go Out Together ► Throwback Thursday

►►► R.I.P. ◄◄◄ Debbie Reynolds And, for the politically incorrect: Carrie Fisher And, on this sad Throwback Thursday, to all the others we lost in 2016: Pat Harrington Jr., David Bowie, René Angélil, Alan ...

Putting His Money Where His Mouth Is ► Monday Musical Appreciation

Let me be the last to wish you a Happy Holiday this year. It’s only appropriate that on St. Stephen’s Day, honouring The First Martyr™, the Not Now Silly Newsoom finds ...

Subversive Cartoons ► Saturday Morning Cartoons

Not every cartoon is safe for Saturday morning kiddie shows. Here’s a terrific documentary called Cartoons Kick Ass; A History of Subversive Animation. Ironically this doc is NSFW. It’s followed by ...

Frank Sinatra ► Monday Musical Appreciation

Had Frank Sinatra not died in 1998, he’d be celebrating his 101st birthday today. When I was growing up in Detroit there weren’t a lot of LPs in the house. However, ...

The Fox “News” Phony War on Christmas

Every year at this time Fox “News” ramps up one of its perpetual outrage machines. Yes, folks, it’s that most wonderful time of the year when God’s Chosen Network launches the ...

Richard Wayne Penniman ► Monday Musical Appreciation

On this day in 1932, Richard Wayne Penniman was born, 2 years before Pat Boone.We know Penniman by his stage name, Little Richard. Not Now Silly could — like usual — ...

John Lennon’s Last Concert Appearance

Read the official report at Elton John’s official website: 40 Years Ago Today…Elton and John Lennon In Concert Part 1 Part 2 On this day in 1974 John Ono Lennon made his very last concert appearance, ...

The First Televised Murder ► Throwback Thursday

I found this newspaper in Pops’ stuff when I was sorting I was just 11 years old in 1963 and already numb from the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. It ...

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