A Klee painting named “Angelus Novus” [1920; pictured] shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedl...

Red Clover ( Trifolium pratense )— a species of clover, native to Europe, western Asia and northwest Africa, but planted in many other regi...

As a tribute to Love’s masterpiece, Forever Changes (1967), (re) issued on CD on Tuesday this week as a (slightly late) two-disc 40th Anniv...

In respect to Earth Day 2008, I thought I'd write in honor of North America's oldest known living tree, the Methuselah Tree , a bri...

A few weeks ago I began to explore the mondegreen , the unintentional mishearing of a verbal utterance enabled by homophonic ambiguity. The ...

Whistle [OE. hwistle ] An act of whistling; a clear shrill sound produced by forcing the breath through the narrow opening made by contract...

The sad news arrived yesterday that British actress Hazel Court died at age 82. I never met her, although she was very supportive of my and ...

You never know what’s going to turn up at a Goodwill Store. While running a few quick errands late yesterday morning I thought I’d stop by a...

Joe Sasfy, who created Time-Life’s 50-album, 1, 100 song, Rock 'n' Roll Era series some years ago, emailed me in connection with my...

University of Nebraska at Kearney student Grant Campbell responded to an observation I made in my previous (April 9) blog entry, “Rock Hist...

Several blog entries ago I discussed Art Laboe's first Oldies But Goodies (1959) compilation, a collection of mid-50s doo wop and R...

There is a story that Jean-Luc Godard, although he despised John Wayne’s politics, nonetheless burst into tears at the moment in The Searche...