ONE-LINERS FROM OLD-TIME RADIO SLEUTHS
OLD-TIME RADIO HAD PLENTY OF ENTERTAINING DETECTIVES. Here are examples of my favorites, documented by John Dunning’s On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio, together with my usual Internet … Continue reading
WAITER, I’LL HAVE THE HOILED CORNED BEEF AND BROWNED PARNIPS
I’LL DECIDE ON THE REST later. These two delicacies appear on a menu illustrated in Anne Ewbank’s “A Peek Inside America’s Dazzling Menu Collection,” Gastro Obscura, July 31, 2023. Here … Continue reading
MASTERING THE ART OF MYTH COOKING
ANYA VON BREMZEN HAS WRITTEN another interesting new cookbook. Or so Irina Dumitrescu writes in “How Do Certain Foods Become National Dishes?,” The New York Times Book Review, June 15, … Continue reading
AIRPLANE DOUBLE FEATURES PART 2
GEE, THERE HAVE BEEN A BUNCH of good airplane flicks, whether viewed one by one or paired as double features. Here in Part 2, we serve a stint in World … Continue reading
AIRPLANE DOUBLE FEATURES PART 1
READER TOM ASKS, “How about an article on flying films?” Readers Bob and Andrew each responded with favorites. Indeed, here in Parts 1 and 2 today and tomorrow is a … Continue reading
DOUBLE FEATURES PART 2
YESTERDAY WE CONSIDERED movie double features, both inexplicable and otherwise. Today in Part 2, there’s memorable endurance viewing, together with double features of operatic nature. Endurance Viewing. Here’s a double … Continue reading
DOUBLE FEATURES PART 1
THOSE OF A CERTAIN AGE may remember the motion picture phenomenon of double features. Here, in Parts 1 and 2 today and tomorrow, are tidbits of exceptional twin billings, some … Continue reading
THANKS, MR. LIEBERSON, FOR ORIGINAL CAST LPS
FUNNY HOW ONE BIT OF SLEUTHING leads to another: In learning about Vera Zorina, one of the guests at Duffy’s Tavern, I found that her second husband was Goddard Lieberson. … Continue reading
ARCHIE’S ENGLISH, SORTA
ARCHIE, MANAGER OF DUFFY’S TAVERN, spoke New Yorkese, not to be confused with other dialects of that part of the U.S. John Dunning recounts in The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio, … Continue reading
CRESCENT CITY OPERATIC TIDBITS
NEW ORLEANS MAY BE BEST KNOWN FOR JAZZ, but Henry Stewart’s “Operapedia,” Opera News, August 2023, offers “an easy stroll through the Crescent City’s opera landscape.” Here are tidbits gleaned … Continue reading
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