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A friend of a friend of this blog is in dire economic straits and facing imminent eviction. Here's the direct link to the fundraiser th...

It's a tough time to be a San Francisco Bay Area resident lacking mass quantities of both free time and discretionary income, augmented...

The Psychotronic Paul Question Of The Day is "how many times did standup philosopher-actor-writer-producer Richard Pryor and the long ...

"The fact that you don't like it or get it - That's fine. The fact that you have to try and make everybody else feel bad for ...

First and foremost, that's the title of a great tune, sung to perfection by one of the best American entertainers of the 20th century, ...

While today would have been the 70th birthday of the inventive, very prolific composer-bandleader-arranger-guitarist Frank Zappa - and that ...

The ever-fabulous Lillian Roth (1910-1980), beaming that inimitable "I'm here - let's put on a show" smile Born on Decembe...

By cracky, it warms the cockles of this blogger’s heart, if not necessarily his gonads, to announce that the KFJC Psychotronix Film Festival...

Continuing to celebrate Dave Brubeck's birthday, first with some clips: As fate would have it, my favorite cable channel by a gazillion ...

The original, prolific and highly creative pianist-composer-bandleader Dave Brubeck was born on December 6, 1920 in Concord, CA. In his cas...

Eighty years ago today, on December 3, 1930, at a screening of the new, provocative feature film by surrealists Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñu...

Since I consider shopping about as fun as a colonoscopy sans anesthesia, my immediate post-turkey day activity invariably devolves into pass...

This has become my favorite song from post-Production Code Of 1934 musicals - take it, Yacht Club Boys! And, dear readers, I ask that, for t...

Burt Bacharach and Hal David, interviewed on May 5, 2010 for the Fresh Air show.

"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." - Bertrand Russell

Vernon Dent (1895-1963), from Good Morning, Eve! Only momentarily satiated with trailers from misunderstood movies, today this blog plugs...

To brazenly and shamelessly purloin a phrase from Mr. Lobo of Cinema Insomnia , "they're not bad films - just misunderstood."