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Kid Stuff: Peanuts
Charlie Brown will never get to kick that football. Lucy will always give out psychiatric help for five cents. Marcie will always call...
Read MoreMusic: Rhapsody in Blue
If we take jazz to mean a free-form improvisation on a theme, then Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin (Great American Things,...
Read MoreAmericana: The Ford F-150
It came as a surprise to me to learn that the Ford F-150 pickup truck has been America’s best-selling vehicle a total of 24...
Read MoreActor: Al Pacino
Some actors get better with age. Witness a couple of men on this list, Tom Selleck (January 7, 2010) and Paul Newman (May 17, 2009)....
Read MoreAmericana: The Smithsonian Institution
If you like BIG museums, you’ll love the Smithsonian Institution. It’s composed of 19 museums and nine research centers. Oh, and...
Read MoreArtist: Jackson Pollock
Rarely has there been an artist as admired and simultaneously dismissed as Jackson Pollock. An abstract expressionist, Pollock...
Read MoreAmericana: Rose Parade
If you happened to have been in Pasadena in 1890 (Anyone? Anyone?), you could have been one of the 2,000 or so people who saw a...
Read MoreTV Show: New Year’s Rockin’ Eve
If you’re old enough to remember New Year’s celebrations prior to 1972, then you remember the hideous music of Guy...
Read MoreWriter: David Mamet
David Mamet is one of the all-time masters of film/stage dialogue. His preference for natural conversation, in which characters...
Read MoreFood: Clam Chowder
Let’s not fight the battle of clam chowders here. Most Americans outside of New England know of basically two variations on...
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