A great book and a bad cliché.

There's a decent discussion of Stephen Shore's great photography book " Uncommon Places ," in today's NYT . The piece,...

The joys of C-Span.

C-Span at 6:26 am today: Our next call comes from San Bernadino, California. Good morning. Oh ... hello? San Bernadino? Yeah. This ... this ...

Two "Streetcar" dialogues.

John and I were watching "A Streetcar Named Desire" yesterday, and Blanche had just gotten Mitch to put the paper lantern over the...

"Purple Rain."

For tonight's movie, may I suggest "Purple Rain"? It was twenty years ago today . Prince celebrated the occasion with a five-h...

Zombies!

Hey! They are finally re-releasing The Zombies' great album "Odessey and Oracle"--the album so druggy they misspelled the tit...

"A Streetcar Named Desire."

We watched "A Streetcar Named Desire" last night. We had been close to watching it the other day, and now, with Brando's death...

A rainy Fourth.

It poured rain yesterday, squelching the planned " Rhythm and Booms " Event--Madison's "Family Festival" and firewor...