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How to Survive the End of the World A Graphic Exploration of How to (Maybe) Avoid Extinction by Katy Doughty MiTeenPress, 2026. 250 pages. Review written June 9, 2026, from a library book. Starred…

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This is a good book about a subject I love but don't know enough about: the relationship between 20th-century classical music and pop music. I think of the book less as an exploration of connections…

This past week Ann Blyth died at the age of 97. She starred with Bing Crosby in the 1949 film Top O' The Morning. Her greatest role though was came a few years earlier in Mildred Pierce (1945). RIP…

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Though all of those that showed up to pay tribute to Alan deserve credit, perhaps no name was bigger and more anticipated than long-time friend and sometimes duet partner, "King" George Strait. The…

I recently spent a few hours viewing a huge trove of videos on the YouTube channel Fantasy Universe. These are all generated by some unidentified person or group using artificial intelligence.…

by 2050 all the original King of the Hill episodes will be lost media, only survived by their youtube poop versions. another 200 years and these will be considered canonical

There are three albums that, for me, hold the following characteristics: I listened to them repeatedly when I first discovered them. No, really, I mean many, many times. What attracted me to them…

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Before Section 37 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1963 was enacted it was illegal for a child under 13 to appear in a film made in Britain. As I pointed out in an earlier post, this law was…

“We all go a little mad sometimes. Haven’t you?” - Norman Bates in ‘Psycho”

  So I’m looking through the midyear issue of “Pollstar” and there’s a chart for “Venues With Capacities Of 5,000 Or Less.” Now if you’re a dedicated follower of the main “Pollstar chart (if not…

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How well were you paying attention to the theater over the past month? Answer these ten questions, and a whopper of a bonus question about Tony acceptance speeches, to find out. Loading…

1967 promo film of Donovan, shot at his stone house commune property overlooking Loch Bay on the Isle of Skye in Scotland. Many people spent time with Donovan here, including Vashti Bunyan after her…

The cover to this issue has Rogue doing the “come forward and fight” taunt created by Bruce Lee. Or is it Morpheus? Rogue helps the Stepford Cuckoos try to find Phoenix Force by absorbing their…

A little over two weeks ago, Elemental Music released an album of a performance at the Brycheiniog Theatre in Wales at the Brecon Jazz Festival. Pianist Kenny Barron led a trio, whose other members…

Book Review: 'The Viaduct' by David Wheldon 2 / 5 Stars 'The Viaduct' first was published in the UK in 1983. This Valancourt Books edition (136 pp.) was published in 2024 and features cover art by…

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People who play music well tend to play one thing well. They picked the cello at age six, got yelled at by a Russian woman for a decade, and now they are simply The Cello Person. I respect that. I…

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Don't ruin a summer outdoor party by blasting the latest Luke Bryan single. Are you serious? Show off your knowledge of actual country music, and help spread the word about worthy artists by…

With a shooting as the biggest news story of the week, cartoonists mostly turned to other topics – summer festivals, rainy weather, the hopes of backyard agriculturalists. The revival of Quebec…

This coming season the San Francisco Performances (SFP) Art of Song series will present only three recitals, one less than the four presented this past season . However, the second of the three will…

For our LEGO Ideas update, we have a few more projects that have reached the 10,000 supporter goal for the Second 2026 Review Stage. As of this post, we’re now up to 33 projects that have hit…

This week's bookshelf is my Marvel shelf...or, at least, it was my original Marvel shelf, when I started reading Marvel in 2000, although I have since come to fill a few other shelves with various…

Cartoonist George Booth was born 100 years ago today – on June 28, 1926. A beloved cartoonist Lambiek Comiclopedia has a fine biography. Both Hogan’s Alley and The Comics Journal have…

After the sad dissolution of the legendary Big Star , Alex Chilton largely eschewed that band's brand of chiming power pop in his eccentric, frequently frustrating solo career. One of the few…

This comic strip by Crumb, published in 1987, serves as a grim complement to “Death of a Salesman.” HOBOKEN, JUNE 28, 2026.  Great art, like “Death of a Salesman,” always speaks to us, but what…

[8 Cleveland Place, Lower Manhattan, c. 1939–1941. From the NYC Municipal Archives Collections . Click for a much larger view.] Sam’s Coffee Pot seems in danger of turning into a LOVE NEST. Love…

Tears Before Bedtime I Can’t Stand the Silence The new single from Tears Before Bedtime makes its intentions clear from the moment you hear its haunted, dark vocals and the thumping drum track that…

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Just a small pitch for watching the early movies of a director you love. Sólo con tu pareja by Alfonso Cuarón came out in 1991. It is weird and great and if you like later movies of his, Y tu mamá…

I just finished Richard Langston's superb new oral history of The Clean, In the Dreamlife You Need a Rubber Soul (I had a tear in my eye at the end). I always enjoy shoehorning into this blog stuff I…

Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger's The Enthusiast is that novel! It's even about newspaper comic strips,…

Two of Scott Turow’s three most recent novels tell the stories of the final legal cases of two characters who were introduced in his first novel almost forty years ago. Presumed Innocent (1987) was…