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 ...
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Mighty Mouse ► Throwback Thursday
On this day in 1955 Mighty Mouse Playhouse is first broadcast on tee vee.
Mighty Mouse originally appeared 1942 as cartoon shorts in movie theaters. According to the WikiWackyWoo:
The character was ...
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Rock, Rock, Rock! ► Monday Musical Appreciation
A precurser to the Baby Boomer Youth Culture to come, Rock, Rock, Rock! is one of the earliest Rock and Roll movies, released all the way back in 1956.
Youth culture ...
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The Beatles Meet Brian Epstein ► Throwback Thursday
On this day in 1961 The Beatles meet with Brian Epstein to discuss whether he would manage them. And, nothing was ever the same again.
According to This Day In Music:
Brian ...
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The Annotated Bill O’Reilly Talking Point Memo #1
I’ve read and watched so many of these Talking Point Memos, I could probably write one. All one needs do is use as many of the 7 types of propaganda ...
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Bing Crosby’s Last Christmas Special ► Monday Musical Appreciation
On this day in 1977 (as The Music History Calendar tells us): Bing Crosby’s last Christmas special airs. The show was recorded in September, and Crosby died that October. The ...
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Harpo Plays! ► Monday Musical Appreciation
He never said a word in the movies, but Harpo Marx never had a problem getting his point across. At a time when Talkies were all the rage, Harpo remained ...
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Dan Penn ► Monday Musical Appreciation
Celebrating a birthday today is Dan Penn, a name almost unknown, but the writer of some of the greatest Soul tunes ever recorded.
Born Wallace Daniel Pennington according to his ...
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A Song So Great They Named It Twice ► Monday Musical Appreciation
When I was going to Coffey Junior High School, in Detroit, a prized piece of ephemera was a mimeographed sheet of paper with what was purported to be the real, ...
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k.d. lang ► Monday Musical Appreciation
Celebrating a birthday today is k.d. lang, born Kathryn Dawn Lang in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Canadians have been enjoying k.d. lang since 1983, when she was performing what she called Cow ...
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You’re The Top ► Monday Musical Appreciation
Eighty-one years ago today one of the greatest songwriters in the English language recorded one of his greatest songs.
Cole Porter was already famous when hired to write the tunes ...
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Peter Tosh ► Monday Musical Appreciation
Born on this day: Winston Hubert McIntosh, better known to Reggae fans as Peter Tosh, one of the original Wailers.
At the age of 15 Tosh moved to Trench Town in ...
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I Love Lucy Premiers ► Throwback Thursday
On this date in 1951 “I Love Lucy” premiered on the CBS network. Although it went off the air in 1957, it has run virtually non-stop in syndication ever since. ...
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