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October 17, 2014 (October 16, 2014)

Ray Bradbury’s ‘Moby Dick’

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Many a high school English student has turned to a video of the 1950s film adaptation of Moby-Dick when faced with writing a report on lengthy sea tale. The plot […]

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October 14, 2014

Happy birthday, Natalie Maines

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Name one other banjo player who wears Prada. And I don’t mean Prada overalls. —Natalie Maines The lead singer of the breakout bluegrass trio the Dixie Chicks, Natalie Maines, was […]

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September 27, 2014 (September 25, 2014)

Beyond “El Paso”: a story song survey

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Story songs had won love from an admiring public since the days when drunken Vikings flung wandering skalds into a nearby volcano. When the wireless came along, story songs filled […]

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September 26, 2014 (September 18, 2014)

Happy birthday, Marty Robbins

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Country music superstar Marty Robbins was born on September 26, 1925. In three decades as a singer and songwriter Robbins placed a staggering 94 songs on Billboard’s country music charts. […]

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September 26, 2014 (September 23, 2014)

For the love of wicked Feleena

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There is a possibly apocryphal story about Loretta Lynn’s classic “Coal Miner’s Daughter.” Supposedly, Lynn’s original version of the song included ten (or eight or twelve) verses. Hearing it, her […]

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August 26, 2014 (August 26, 2014)

Happy Women’s Equality Day

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Today, the enlightened everywhere celebrate Women’s Equality Day, commemorating not only the Nineteenth Amendment giving half of American humanity the right to vote outside of Wyoming, but recognizing all of […]

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August 22, 2014 (August 22, 2014)

Happy Birthday to video and film innovator C. Francis Jenkins

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Born on August 22, 1867, inventor C. Francis Jenkins was an innovator of early film and television technology. One of Jenkins’s inventions, the Phantoscope projector, led to today’s large-screen movies. However, […]

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August 22, 2014 (August 22, 2014)

Ray Bradbury and the Twilight Zone

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Ray Bradbury had made his name fusing science fiction with an abiding concern for humanity. What he had done in print, Rod Serling brought to early television. The anthology series The […]

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August 14, 2014 (August 14, 2014)

Q&A with Locomotive to Aeromotive author Simine Short

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Simine Short is an aviation historian who has researched and written extensively on the history of motorless flight. Her first book, Glider Mail: An Aerophilatelic Handbook, received numerous research awards worldwide and is […]

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August 11, 2014 (August 11, 2014)

New in paperback: a pioneer, a president and a King

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Three UIP titles are available in paperback editions today. Locomotive to Aeromotive: Octave Chanute and the Transportation Revolution Earth, water, air—Octave Chanute grappled with the very elements themselves. He built the massive […]

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August 5, 2014 (August 11, 2014)

The Other Hawthorne’s Weird Tales

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Julian Hawthorne hustled. An independent contractor par excellence, the son of Nathaniel Hawthorne reported on foreign wars and domestic politics, published novels, penned short stories, dreamt up theosophist blarney, raked […]

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July 29, 2014 (July 28, 2014)

Illegal author José Ángel N.’s open letter to President Obama

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José Ángel N. is an undocumented immigrant who lives in Chicago. In his memoir Illegal: Reflections of an Undocumented Immigrant, José Ángel writes of his own journey from Mexico to […]

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