While poking around for Christmas music, I found this little-known recording of Louis Armstrong reading ‘Twas The Night Before Christmas, recorded shortly before he died. The poem, first published in ...
And as always when I post about Ricky Jay, I recommend Mark Singer’s irresistible 1993 profile of Jay, which begins with this story: The playwright David Mamet and the theatre director Gregory Mosher ...
Well this is something special, a holiday treat for the end of 2024: a group of archivists (including Chris Person) has uploaded an HBO magic special by Ricky Jay that has been largely unavailable ...
Al Green released a soulful cover of R.E.M’s “Everybody Hurts,” and it whips. Of the song, Green said: “I could really feel the heaviness of the song, and I wanted to inject a little touch of hope and ...