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Earlier today, a "friend suggestion" that I absolutely did not do was attributed to my Facebook account, so I deactivated it . I ...

Did any cartoon producer/director not named Gregory LaCava or Frank Tashlin even dabble successfully, even briefly, in live-action films? Y...

This week's noteworthy DVD release is Warner Archive's Classic Musical Shorts From The Dream Factory . It includes several entries ...

Don't ask me what logic leads this blog from Ella Fitzgerald to Frank Zappa to Sonny Sharrock to Dionne Warwick. I don't know. Just ...

What I will remember most about Sonny Sharrock - even before the music - will be the laughter, the sense of humor, the fun. We laughed a lot...

KFJC-FM , my favorite radio station, as part of its annual "May Mayhem" series of specials, is dedicating May 15, 2010 to the wond...

And if that clip leaves you wanting more, the next logical step is to break down and buy the Twelve Nights In Hollywood 4-CD box set.

Today, this blog pays tribute to two particularly creative, stellar, wonderful and underrated artists who stand out among the numerous aweso...

How does one follow a posting featuring the great Oscar Peterson, Ray Brown and Nils Henning Orsted Pederson? With the equally incomparable ...

Have yet to find another clip of blazing jazz guitarists that compares to T.J. Kirk, so I will shift from the guitar to that big brother of ...

I would have liked to have found a clip of a bunch of gifted jazz guitarists tearing into some Burt Bacharach chord changes, thus deftly con...

Once upon a time in the early and mid-1990's, some amazing music was being played in San Francisco clubs on a regular basis. It was the ...

Today is the 121st anniversary of Charlie Chaplin's birth. While not the first Hollywood film star, he arguably remains the movies'...

Musician and writer Greg Forest has done us (the music-obsessed sonic omnivore public) an immense favor byposting a slew of outstanding do...

Just in case there isn't more than enough fabulous material available for download via The Internet Archive and Concert Vault , Phil ...

There are at least four moments in this Bugs Bunny cartoon directed by Bob McKimson - at 1:35, 2:35, 6:20 and 6:50 - that never fail to get ...

A shout-out to anyone else who reads this blog who is using Blogger: are your comments dominated by spam spam spam spam (99.82% of it wholl...

While we are sad to see the Stanford Theatre's splendid Akira Kurosawa Festival come to a close with the end of March, some excellent an...

Tomorrow night, Thursday March 25 at 7:00 p.m.: Creature Features At The Balboa with John Stanley, horror host of KTVU-TV's popular lat...

I generally prefer to avoid posting something about a death, since wonderful, beautiful, inventive amazing people die every day - and, blu...