The force of nature that was Chester Arthur Burnett, better known as Chicago blues legend Howlin' Wolf, was born this day in 1910 in West Point, Mississippi. Named after the...
Lizzie Douglas, better known as the Chicago blues legend Memphis Minnie, was born on this day in 1897 in Algiers, Louisiana. By her early teens, she was playing banjo and...
There are several difficulties in trying to figure out a Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy ride. The biggest of them is the fact that so many people love the book, the radio show, the movie, the television show, or one of the forms of it so much that they might have problems with any new interruption. The other challenge is that of creating a fun “ride” that has the audience sit stationary watching everything unfold on a screen. It’s a different type of medium than I used last time out with The Sword in the Stone ride, but, it’s still fascinating. Sunday, May 17: 8:00 - 9:00PM Nature - “Victoria Falls.” I don’t know about you, but I just don’t think it’s right that Nature is doing an entire episode on a poor woman falling down. Sure, she didn’t have that little pendant
His instrument always seemed to be in a very good mood.
Teenage boys in the 1950s were not that much different from now in at least one respect -- risqué double-entendres usually made us snicker and dig an elbow into our friends' sides. That might have helped explain why a relatively unknown keyboardist named Dave Cortez rocketed to the top of the charts in 1959 with a song called "The...
Blues guitarist Albert King was born this day in 1923 in the rural Missisippi Delta town of Indianola. King would be raised in Arkansas, however, and taught himself the guitar...
It's been a long ride for fans of Dollhouse , Joss Whedon's sci-fi series about an underground organization that makes its trade in imprinting people with other personalities and selling them out to various high-class clientele.
When the show was first announced on November 1, 2007, squeals of geeky joy could be heard all across the Internet. I mean, when the mastermind behind such cult phenomena as Buffy the Vampire Slayer , Angel , and Firefly announces that he's returning to television, people stand up and take notice. But when production finally started in fall 2008, after the Writers Guild of America strike ended, and after Whedon had an online smash with his supervillain musical Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog , controversy began to arise.
Reports began circulating that the FOX network had problems with the series' creative direction, and production was
