The Kabarett der Komiker (the Cabaret of Comedians, often shortened to "Kadeko") was a Berlin variety venue which throve especially during the Weimar Era. It was founded on December 1, 1924,…
November 30 (it turns out) is the birthday of Woody Allen (b. 1935). We used to think it was December 1, but Allen's recent memoir set the record straight. I originally planned a highly ambi…
Yes, I know this photo makes him seem more like "Sinister Felton" but it was the best photo I could find of Francis "Happy" Felton (1907-1964), prior to the guise he was best known for durin…
November is Native American History Month; next year (2025) will mark the 350th anniversary of King Phillip's War, the beginning of the end for the native people as the dominant pol…
The day after Thanksgiving is always Native American Heritage Day, a day, I guess, when things are even more Native American Heritagey than they are during Native American Heritage Month, wh…
November is Native American History Month; next year (2025) will mark the 350th anniversary of King Phillip's War, the beginning of the end for the native people as the dominant pol…
November is Native American History Month; next year (2025) will mark the 350th anniversary of King Phillip's War, the beginning of the end for the native people as the dominant pol…
All claims (by others) to the contrary, I am at most a partial historian, though I have been at it since childhood, when I was a 13 year old Junior Member of the Pettaquamscutt Histori…
November is Native American History Month; next year (2025) will mark the 350th anniversary of King Phillip's War, the beginning of the end for the native people as the dominant pol…
Well, our projected three part celebration of Geraldine Page (see my 100th birthday post here) got an unexpected 2.5 installment when we had the honor and privilege of attending a performanc…
Every so often (pretty rarely, in fact) it happens that a number of news items accrue that I'd love to tell the readers of this blog about, and so I bundle them together into their own succo…
November is Native American History Month; next year (2025) will mark the 350th anniversary of King Phillip's War, the beginning of the end for the native people as the dominant pol…
Celebration today of silent star Vera Reynolds (1899-1962) " not to be confused with Vera Ralston! Reports conflict about where Reynolds was originally from Nebraska or Richmond Virginia. St…
Until quite recently, Candy Darling (1944-1974) was the most beautiful male-to-female trans person most people had ever seen. She wasn't just gorgeous, but she possessed a studied, graceful …
November is Native American History Month; next year (2025) will mark the 350th anniversary of King Phillip's War, the beginning of the end for the native people as the dominant pol…
Born 100 years ago today: singer and radio/tv personality Eileen Barton (1924-2006) Barton was a second generation vaudevillian, reported to have joined her parents act at age 2 1/2. Her par…
November is Native American History Month; next year (2025) will mark the 350th anniversary of King Phillip's War, the beginning of the end for the native people as the dominant pol…
November 23 was the birthday of the great clown Harpo Marx (1888-1964). Harpo's gotten a lot of coverage here in the past, in my main post on him, on a movie he made without his brothers, on…
November is Native American History Month; next year (2025) will mark the 350th anniversary of King Phillip's War, the beginning of the end for the native people as the dominant pol…
Today would have been the 100th birthday of the great stage and screen actress Geraldine Page (1924-1987). This is the second of a projected trio of pieces I'm doing the mark the occasion. T…
From late 2018 through late 2019 I had the honor of performing in Jason Trachtenburg's Lee Harvey Oswald musical Me and Lee at a bevy of off-off locations throughout NYC, including Sidewalks…
November is Native American History Month; next year (2025) will mark the 350th anniversary of King Phillip's War, the beginning of the end for the native people as the dominant pol…
November is Native American History Month; next year (2025) will mark the 350th anniversary of King Phillip's War, the beginning of the end for the native people as the dominant pol…
Hungry I guess for any kind of positive story to tell, local press in New York is trumpeting the news that Fifth Avenue has now reached its bicentennial as one of the city's main thoroughfar…
Broadcast legend Larry King (Lawrence Zeiger, 1933-2021) passed away so recently that this post can almost serve as an obituary. We lost him during the Covid pandemic, though at age 87, as i…