This is the grave of Coleman Hawkins. Born in 1904 in St. Joseph, Missouri, Hawkins was introduced to music as a child. His parents had him start playing the piano at the age of four. Later he picked up the cello and then the saxophone....
Author: Erik Loomis
Being in Mexico, I don't have any shows to talk about right now, but that doesn't mean music isn't still a central part of my life. In a different moment,.
I can't believe this is the last week of the college football regular season. Two things are true about the fall--it is the best time of the year and I.
This is the grave of Carl Vrooman. Born in 1872 in Macon County, Missouri, Vrooman grew up pretty well off. His father was a judge. Vrooman grew up mostly in Kansas and attended Washburn College in Topeka for a year before transferring to Harvard in...
Tonight's Film Club entry builds on the last one and looks at another early 30s film of Constance Bennett. Gregory LaCava directed Bed of Roses, which was released in 1933..
....you are perfect for the Trump Cabinet! The mother of Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald J. Trump’s pick for secretary of defense, wrote him an email in 2018 saying he had.
Ulysses S. Grant was a very stupid man when it came to financial matters. He legitimately thought that rich people were better than the rest of us and smarter too. So he would more or less do whatever rich guys wanted when he was president....
The sign of a functioning country my friends: A new bill aimed at beefing up school security could include armed drones guarding Texas schools. The bill filed by State Rep..
People are terrible drivers, but it's not entirely clear that machines are better drivers. When a person hits someone, it's not really a big news story. But when AI hits.
This is the grave of Ty Cobb. Born in 1886 in Narrows, Georgia, Cobb grew up in very rural and poor Georgia, but he wasn't so bad off himself. In fact, his dad was a state senator for a time. He grew up mostly in...
This is the grave of J.K. Mullen. Born in 1847 in Ballinasloe, County Galway, Ireland, John Kernan Mullen grew up in the United States. His family was not that poorly.
If there's one thing that is settled law in this country, it's birthright citizenship. But maybe settled law just doesn't exist anymore. As I often state to my students when.