Beginning in 2017, director Peter Jackson’s team of filmmakers commenced an odyssey to discover the Holy Grail of pop music. Reviewing, restoring and upgrading 60 hours of 16mm of film and 150 hours of audio … Read more →
“I’m John and I, too, play the guitar. Sometimes I play the fool” Today, John Lennon would have turned 81, if not for the bullet fired by a mentally deranged fan. This senseless act of … Read more →
Climate change isn’t coming……it’s here. The signs are very real and very sobering. In just 2019 alone, here’s what scientists have documented: Arctic permafrost is melting at a rate that is far faster that we’d … Read more →
The megadrought is coming. Scientists appear to be united in their assessment that changing climate patterns will hit the Southwest hard — including Southern California. On July 24th, Columbia University cientists detailed their findings in … Read more →
The movie critics (or at least, many of them) are wrong about Yesterday, the Richard Curtis-penned movie released in June 2019. Yes, Yesterday features 15 songs written by The Beatles. Yes, it is based upon … Read more →
I’m sorry, but please stop saying I’m sorry. Sorry is hurting people and relationships. It should be banished from our language. And I’m not sorry that I feel this way. I’m not even sorry about … Read more →
You needn’t be a Whovian to know that Dr. Who lore plays an outsized role in Amazon’s new series Good Omens. You’d be entirely correct to conclude that there’s no coincidence int the fact that: … Read more →
If you never had a chance to see Salvador Dali in person, get ready for a surprise. The larger-than-life surrealist artist died in 1989. While his art has lived on, his unusual personna moved onto … Read more →
If you read the news, surf on the Internet or just breathe, it is hard to miss the social fragmentation breaking down the American and global social fabric. Distrust, polarization, alienation, racism and tribal incivility … Read more →
Does it feel like you have fewer and fewer choices of companies providing essential services? It’s not your imagination. Consolidation of most all major services in the U.S. has been growing over the last 25 … Read more →
