Mother’s Day 1924Perhaps on Mother’s Day 1924, Marie Cole Greene fondly perused the pages of this Baby Mine booklet in which she had carefully recorded special information about her newborn son. Alvin C. Greene Jr. was born on Nov. 4, 1923, in Abilene.Two days after his birth, he weighed 8 pounds, 8 ounces and was […]
Claire Meade is a freakin’ genius. On tonight's episode of Ugly Betty — an action-packed installment that saw the continued crumbling of Betty’s wretched relationship with Henry — she made more sense than she ever has before. A rational Claire Meade? Yes, my TV Watching friends, believe it! I speak, specifically, of when she reprimanded […]
With one brother a member of a blues band and the other part of an edgy jazz ensemble, no one would expect any release from The Wood Brothers to be a generic one.So, their second CD Loaded (Blue Note) blends Oliver Wood’s weary, anguished leads and Chris’ dense, booming acoustic bass and lets them set […]
Gotta give Bitten a break tonight, I’m a little outa sorts. I clearly need to fill my cup with some sarcasm and faux-hate, cuz I thought most everybody was pretty great or, at the very least, Not Awful.Ahhh, Mr. Seacrest. Doncha love the way the Doosh talks about the […]
The Riches began last season with a fascinating concept: what if husband-and-wife scammers had the opportunity to step into the shoes of a dead couple, if they were the only ones who knew about the deaths? Eddie Izzard and Minnie Driver were fantastic as the Travellers who found that while grifting was hard work, living […]