Domestic racial terrorism: Learning about and researching the 1921 Tulsa Massacre.
During the Tulsa Race Massacre, white mobs killed hundreds of Black residents and destroyed businesses in the city’s Greenwood district—a …
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Why it’s called The Preakness? What’s in a name, anyhow? Who was Preakness?
According to the Maryland Jockey Club, it all started with the Minisi, a northern New Jersey tribe of native Americans. …
Marilyn Maye. Streaming a new concert from Feinstein’s/54 Below. Meet her; get your tickets.
On an early Sunday morning, 54 years ago, I walked into the music library at KARD FM in Wichita, Kansas …
Academy Awards: Here’s your printable ballot for this year’s Oscars presentation.
The 93rd Oscars will be held on Sunday, April 25, 2021, at Union Station Los Angeles and the Dolby Theatre …
Awards season comes to life with the 27th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards. Here’s your printable ballot.
The 27th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards® will be simulcast on TNT and TBS on Sunday, April 4, 2021, at …
A good tune makes our days in isolation more bearable. Tonight, I’m remembering Harry Nilsson.
I love working from home, and I have a great WFH space. Yet oddly, from time to time over the …
Three minutes, seventeen seconds of pure musical joy. Ready for your face to sport a smile?
This may be my shortest blog post ever. Nothing more needs to be said than: Laura Osnes and Colin Donnell …
Get ready for goosebumps. Viola Davis is Ma Rainey—and she’s superb.
The screen adaptation of August Wilson’s 1984 Pulitzer Prize winning play, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, will premiere on Netflix December …
Broadway tales, backstage banter, stars’ stories—you’ll love these two guys.
When I was going to theatre school New York in the 70s, I’d go to gay bars on the weekend …
Timelines can be an effective way of presenting actions over time. Here’s a stellar example.
I turned to a news channel a few minutes ago. I watched a woman say, “I don’t recognize our country …
Get a head start on Halloween. Phantom of the Opera streams free this weekend.
If you’ve been missing Broadway and local theatre as much as I have over the past 9 months, this announcement …
Tonight, you can buy a Tyrannosaurus Rex if you have deep pockets. (It won’t eat much.)
From impressionism’s opening moments to cutting-edge contemporary art, the 20th Century Evening Sale at Christie’s tracks the major movements of …
Asked about Naples, Florida on a ’70s TV talk show I said, “It’s like a giant Valium.”
One summer in the late 70s, I flew from Los Angeles to Naples, Florida for a a visit with my …
The Burger King plants a big one on Ronald McDonald. And yes, it’s a thing!
Burger King Finland’s campaign “Love conquers all” is a celebration of love and all the forms it takes. A new …
“We need to change the world one 5-year-old at a time,” Marlo Thomas on Free to Be…You and Me.
In the spring of 1974, LaRae Petrovich and I ran into each other in the office break room. She asked …
Nathan Lane, “…out in the Hamptons fighting it out with the over-privileged for toilet paper.”
From the SAG-AFTRA Foundation’s At Home with series, a fun, insightful half-hour with Nathan Lane. Nothing more needs to be …
Do you enjoy the music of film and television? Here’s a streaming event you won’t want to miss.
It’s an all-star cast. Join Sting, Catherine O’Hara, Elisabeth Moss, Anika Noni Rose, William Shatner, Auli’i Cravalho, John Stamos, Patti …
Jennifer Aniston & Lisa Kudrow have a virtual reunion on Variety’s Actors on Actors@Home. Enjoy!
Jennifer Aniston and Lisa Kudrow have two of the best smiles and most infectious laughs in the business and they …
It’s PRIDE month and the 50th anniversary of the post-Stonewall march. Here’s a must-see video.
I know a thing or two about LGBTQ marches and parades—I joined my first one in Greenwich Village five decades …
