I've been listening to this incredible recording for years now, and still find things in it I didn't hear before. For one thing, You...

Ah, those days: the days of  Johnny Larue and William B. and Dr. Tongue and all the other surreal characters taken over by John Candy. F...

(The following is a piece from the New York Times which caught my eye, then dragged me right in. It's pretty long, but I had to r...

Since my enthusiasm so often runs ahead of my knowledge, I'm writing this in advance of knowing anything about my subject. Or ...

Gershwin, eh? We've been a little obsessed with him lately, especially regarding his close connection with the polymath/Polly-wanna-cr...

When Ernie Kovacs, the mad genius of early TV, needed a theme song for his mad genius show, somebody did an arrangement of Gershwin's ...