On the PBS show Soundstage one of my music superheroes was on tonight--Billy Idol. The concert set included a few new songs but was centered around his signature hits from the Eighties: "White Wedding", "Rebel Yell", "Flesh For Fantasy", "Dancing With Myself ( Read more... )

Where Did Rumpole End And Jon Mortimer Begin?

FWIW, I would have loved to see an Equity Court series from the perspective of Liz Probert after Rumpole's retirement.

The CBS, ABC and PBS local stations have been off the air today and tonight for reasons unknown. I missed this week's episode of Criminal Minds...and wonder if the stations will be back on-air tomorrow. This place just got that much more boring.

...You have dreams about chefs in the middle of nowhere (say, the backwoods of the Pacific Northwest/Canada/Alaska) who invent pies made from an obscure vegetable I haven't heard of before (and don't ask me, I don't remember this part) which becomes for this decade the food-fad parallel to quiche in the early Eighties ( Read more... )

Sagittarius Horoscope for week of September 25, 2008Many Americans regard the Pledge of Allegiance as a supreme oath of loyalty to the United States. When I was a kid, we used to recite it to start each school day. Members of Congress still make it their opening salutation at every session. It's not well-known, though, that the Pledge was composed ( Read more... )

I feel a bizarre twinge of synchronicital rightness about not so much the what as the when and the why.

This past week, PBS aired the last episode of Niall Ferguson's documentary series War of the World, about the violence of the past century, its causes, and what it means about human nature. The parts about the ethnic wars in the former ( Read more... )

I ask this question because last night PBS had the first half of a two-part SoundStage program with Stevie Nicks. Among the songs she performed in part one was everybody's favorite Fleetwood Mac song of hers ("Sara") and two covers: The Dave Matthews Band's "Crash" and Led Zepplin's "Rock-N-Roll" (a.k.a. "Been a Long Time"). Remix the latter two ( Read more... )

(A postscript to a previous entrySince I didn't have the 'Net last night ( Read more... )

The PBS program Great Performances is presenting this week the opera "The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny". Some of the hands behind the Broadway production of "Sweeney Todd" are behind this production as well. And yes, there is a song in this play that was made into hit rock records by the likes of David Bowie and the Doors ( Read more... )

Hey.

One of my Mom's favorite TV shows is the PBS "let's look at antiques and fancy houses" Find! So she was really bummed out when she tuned in this past afternoon and it wasn't on. Turns out that the season wrapped up with last week's episode and it's in hiatus. Still, it took some digging on the web to learn this fact ( Read more... )