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Continue reading →: RIP, Phil Donahue
Another passing to note. Growing up, I watched so many installments of his TV show on weekday afternoons (including two wild interviews with Ayn Rand here and here). RIP, Phil Donahue. A discussion of Phil Donahue and his impact can be found on my Facebook thread.
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Continue reading →: Remembering Randazzo Founder
RIP, Paul Randazzo Sr., the founder of the classic Randazzo’s, which still operates in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn. You’ll find a photo of the restaurant in my previously posted YouTube slideshow tribute to Sheepshead Bay and Manhattan Beach.
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Continue reading →: Dedicated to the Flat Earthers!
Flat Earthers Beware! Courtesy Pearls Before Swine
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Continue reading →: Song of the Day #2140
Song of the Day: Peace Piece [YouTube link], composed by the great jazz pianist Bill Evans, is a pastoral improvisation that appears on the 1958 album “Everybody Digs Bill Evans“. Its sound inspired Miles Davis, who featured Evans on four tracks of the profoundly influential 1959 album “Kind of Blue“.…
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Continue reading →: 300 HRs: All Rise for the Judge!
All Rise! Aaron “Judge became the quickest player to reach 300 career home runs, doing so in 955 games and eclipsing Ralph Kiner’s mark of 1,087 games. He also did it in the fewest number of at-bats, achieving the task in 3,431. It took the previous record holder, Babe Ruth,…
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Continue reading →: Gena Rowlands, RIP
The gifted actress, Gena Rowlands, died today at the age of 94. From “A Woman Under the Influence” (1974) to “An Early Frost” (1985), and so many other films, she was one of the all-time greats.
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Continue reading →: I Love Brooklyn #5 / Song of the Day #2139
Song of the Day: That’s Amore, music by Harry Warren, lyrics by Jack Brooks, was a huge hit as the signature tune of Dean Martin, who recorded his studio version of the song on this summer date in 1953. The song was first heard, however, in the Dean Martin-Jerry Lewis…
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Continue reading →: Song of the Day #2138
Song of the Day: Whispering Waves, words and music by Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellote, appears on the second studio album of Donna Summer: “Love to Love You Baby” (1977). What’s a summer music festival without a song from Summer? This poignant track was an early indication that Summer had…
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Continue reading →: Song of the Day #2137
Song of the Day: On the Sunny Side of the Street, music by Jimmy McHugh, lyrics by Dorothy Fields, was introduced in Lew Leslie’s International Revue. Some archivists suggest that this 1930 song was actually written by Fats Waller, who sold the rights to it. Be that as it may,…
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Continue reading →: Ayn Rand and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism
I am happy to announce the publication of Volume 463 of Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Published by Gale Literature Criticism, in association with Layman Poupard Publishing and edited by Carol A. Schwartz, the volume “assembles critical responses to the works of 20th-century authors of all genres—novelists, poets, playwrights, journalists, philosophers, political…
Chris Sciabarra, April 2022 Coney Island Parachute Jump, Brooklyn, New York
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