No Rock & Roll Fun (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Artie Traum, a key player in the New York Folk scene of the 1960s, has died . Traum formed a Woodstock-based duo with his brother, the spectacularly named Happy Traum. Represented by Albert Grossman, whose stable also included Peter Paul And Mary. A trio of successful albums followed, before the brothers went their separate musical ways in 1977. They continued to work together, however, presenting...
Dave Lucas (Free subscription) | 06/28/2008
Happy 90 Nelson Mandela! (I won't tell you about one fellow I know who to this day thinks the Peter Paul and Mary song "The Great Mandala" is about Nelson!) Amy Winehouse kept her promise and appeared to sing last night at Nelson Mandela’s 90th birthday concert. Blazing newcomer Leona Lewis (seen in photo at left) also performed. PopSugar reviews the event here . Geoffrey Philp 's Blog Spot rises with...
greylocknews (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
Williamstown, MA - Bring your family and friends, picnics, blankets, and lawn chairs to the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute's expansive south lawn to enjoy the free summer outdoor concert series held on Tuesday evenings at 6 pm in...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
In the late 1950s and early 1960s the folk-music movement in America hit a commercial zenith with artists such as the Kingston Trio, Joan Baez, and Peter, Paul and Mary enjoying great success--particularly on college campuses, competing with jazz as the countercultural music of choice. Several ja...
Big Brass Blog (Free subscription) | 06/15/2008
This simply must be passed on to the rest of you. I was just fooling around as usual and chanced upon it. But it struck me hard way back in the 60's and still does today. Maybe sometime soon I will have something with an intellectual bent about it, but there is no promise. Peter, Paul and Mary. Speak of relaxing, this does a number on me, hope it works on the rest of you as well.
Patum Peperium (Free subscription) | 06/03/2008
Madame's Nightshirt Mrs. Peperium Mrs P. & Sir Basil, What are the rules for putting up new members to the RCBfA [Roman Catholic Boys for Art]? I'd like to propose Robbo the Llama Butcher (and ODT if he is not...
Granby 01033 (Free subscription) | 06/02/2008
Then one day it happened, Jackie Paper came no more... Please excuse the reference to Peter, Paul and Mary, but the allusion is real. I'm no dragon and I won't live forever, though comparatively speaking, I've outlasted almost a generation of high school students. I'll see some of them again in the next few years, though our relationship will never be the same. Eventually, they will all be gone. On...
DadTalk (Free subscription) | 06/01/2008
I had few music-listening options growing up. My choices included a few reel-to-reel Peter, Paul and Mary and Beach Boys “albums” and a handful of ancient 8-tracks. The latter I would play by plugging my D.C. slot car transformer into an 8-track player salvaged from an old car. Thirty years later, I’m still trying to make up for the lack of variety in my childhood music options. So when I was offered...
Pardon Power (Free subscription) | 05/25/2008
Hamilton Jordan, political strategist and the very closest personal advisor to Jimmy Carter died this week. He was 63-years old. Jordan made a run for the U.S. Senate after Ronald Reagan won the presidency and worked for Ross Perot in 1992. He was also in on the hefty criticism that Bill Clinton received in 2001. In a speech at Georgia Southwestern State University, Carter called Clinton's pardon of...
Star Tribune (Free subscription) | 05/17/2008
On her wall of fame: Photos with Walter Mondale, the late Sen. Paul Simon, former Minnesota House Speaker Dee Long, ex.-Gov. Rudy Perpich, Geraldine Ferraro, Ted Kennedy and Peter, Paul and Mary. "My favorite is of my dad and me with the King of Sweden, taken in 1974. It's the only time I ever remember my dad wearing a tux."
Gawker (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
The image associated with this post is best viewed using a browser.[Actors Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie, and Jack Black promoting their film "Kung Fu Panda" at the Cannes film festival today; image...
Cryptomundo.com (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Law died at his Los Angeles home. Video from The Golden Voyage of Sinbad . Other images.
Sister Toldjah (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
TV writer Cinque Henderson writes an insightful piece in The New Republic titled “Maybe We Can't - The black case for Obama-skepticism.” In it, he talks about the fact that he is a minority within the minority - a black man who supports Hillary Clinton, and points out, as other writers (including yours truly) [...]
Mari - diary (Free subscription) | 05/01/2008
Look at this "Collector Spotlight: Yexel's Toy Museum". Hmm is he a son of rich family or something? He has from Micky to Tomorrow's joe, everything! This and this is the web site of Kotobukiya he mentioned. I didn't know...
Wonkette (Free subscription) | 04/29/2008
From: Will Duke To: tips@wonkette.com Date: Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 10:13 AM Why can't I find any coverage of the upcoming fraud case against the Clintons? It's set for october and would surely hurt...
