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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 ...

Musical Appreciation ► Live Aid

He was a member of The Boomtown Rats, an Irish Punk band from the late ’70s. At the time no one could have predicted that Bob Geldolf, writer of everyone’s ...

Another Magical Tee Vee Moment ► Ernest Borgnine’s Secret To Long Life ► R.I.P.

Those Foxy Friends at Fox and Friends have a way of bringing out the best in people. Here they get Ernest Borgnine to reveal his secret to longevity. R.I.P.

Brian Jones ► A Musical Appreciation

Let’s face facts: The Rolling Stones was his band. After hanging around London in the early ’60s with musicians like Alexis Korner, Jack Bruce, and Paul Jones, Brian Jones decided ...

Today’s Fox Snark ► Gretchen Carlson ► Redux

I spoke too soon.

Today’s Fox Snark ► Gretchen Carlson

HEY!!! Look who got the memo. Let’s see how long it lasts.

Happy Birthday ► Mel Kaminsky

Dateline June 28, 1926 – Melvin Kaminski is born in Brooklyn, New York. It will be many years before he changes his name to Mel Brooks and makes the world ...

Musical Appreciation ► Georgie Fame

I first heard Georgie Fame as did many other ‘Merkins, as the singer of “The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde” in 1967. It was one of those out-of-the-box hits that ...

Day In History ► Day In Music ► June 21st

Dr. Goldmark examining creation of a 33 1/3 record. Pic used by Fair Use, even tho’ Corbus thinks it owns it. Dateline June 21, 1948 – Dr. Peter Goldmark, of CBS, demonstrated ...

How Jamaica Conquered The World ► An Update

Back on April 20 I wrote about my small part in “How Jamaica Conquered the World.” Every once in a while producer Roifield Brown sends out an email, telling me ...

Happy Birthday, Brian Wilson: Genius ► A Musical Appreciation

There’s no point in writing a Brian Wilson biography; every one knows the high points of his life. What started as a love of the four-part harmonies of The Four ...

Happy Birthday, Moe Howard ► Nostalgia Ain’t What It Used To Be

Dateline June 19, 1897 – Moe Howard, future leader of The Three Stooges, was born Moses Harry Horwitz on this date. He would be joined later in life with older ...

Another Magical Tee Vee Moment ► I’ve Got A Secret

Dateline June 19, 1952 – I’ve Got A Secret begins a 15 year run on tee vee. If it’s not obvious already, the pressure to post almost every day has me ...

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