Beatles ’64: Surmounting Media Skeptics, Fab Four Carve Out a Career
THE BEATLES were greeted by a skeptical, sometimes dismissive mainstream media as Beatlemania broke out abroad. On Feb.…
Author: David McGee
‘Footlights,’ Chaplin Novella, Discovered, Restored, Seeking Publisher
FOOTLIGHTS, the only work of prose fiction ever written by CHARLIE CHAPLIN, has been pieced together from handwritten…
The Floating World
Can the Japanese today really look to Mother Nature to find out who they are? A visit…
Remembering Pete Seeger
Remembering PETE SEEGER by those who knew him and in his own words. The first of a two-part…
Bring ‘em Home: The Incompleat Listener’s Guide to Pete Seeger on Record
PETE SEEGER's album catalogue tally comes close to 100--so many we dare not suggest the 'essential' ones.…
Get Thee Hence, Sinner – Christine Santelli
EPs are proliferating these days, but few can match CHRSTINE SANTELLI's new one, LIMELIGHT '69, a collection of…
‘Africa Is My Home’: Captivating Look at a Captivating Woman
JULES considers 'AFRICA IS MY HOME,' the fictionalized story of a real-life child named Margru, taken from her…
Catch Them If You Can
THE BOXCARS' third album, Grammy-nominated IT'S JUST A ROAD, is the quintet's strongest amalgam yet of inspired covers…
Feeling the Spirit, Orcas Circle Ferry as It Carries Native Artifacts to Ancestral Home
When a ferry showed up in Puget Sound carrying Native artifacts to the Burke Museum in Seattle, nearly…
‘A Life Is But a Day and Expresses But a Single Note’
In December 1882 the distinguished psychologist WILLIAM JAMES learned that his father was dying, and immediately penned a…