Humanity’s favorite hobby — right after self-destruction and arguing online — is trying to outsmart time itself. Before Einstein told us clocks were more of a suggestion than a rule, we were already daydreaming about jumping through centuries like skipping [read more...]
The Motortown Revue was the name given to the package concert tours of Motown artists in the 1960s. Early tours featured Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, Mary Wells, The Marvelettes, Barrett Strong, and The Contours as headlining acts, and gave [read more...]
Malaria specialists are actually more impressed with a 1943 anti-malaria video, produced by Walt Disney for the U.S. government and starring the Seven Dwarfs: The Winged Scourge. The 10-minute film explains how malaria is spread — and how it might [read more...]
The Altamont Music Festival, held in Northern California at the Altamont Raceway in December of 1969, was the lowest point reached during the swing of otherwise successful music events held that year, including Woodstock. The event was planned as the [read more...]
The Mod Scene was centered on British pop music played by well-shod lads by way of Carnaby Street. Mods worked in offices by day to supply their wardrobe of custom fit tight pants and nightlife ticket. They buzzed around the [read more...]
Nobody defines the blues like guitar playing John Lee Hooker, who rose to legend status performing an electric guitar-style adaptation of Delta blues. "Boom Boom" is a song written and recorded in 1961. "I like the number (Boom Boom Boom Boom). It's a number that [read more...]
The Burnette brothers were a wild bunch. Straight out of the Memphis farm fields and into the boxing rings, these country boys carried a bit of punch with them when they swung an uppercut into the burgeoning field of Rock [read more...]
It has actually been known that the Earth was round since the time of the ancient Greeks. I believe that it was Pythagoras who first proposed that the Earth was round sometime around 500 B.C. But ever since this old [read more...]
So we can lean a couple ways on this, yea? 1. Here is yet another study that cost a bunch only to learn that coffee helps you stay awake.. And 2. If their "mission" is via "touch screen" then it [read more...]
